illconsidered | April 5, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup
skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Information overload is pattern recognitionApril 4, 2010 Chuckles, COP15, COP16, Endangerment Comments, Weathermen, Lovelock Bottom Line, UN CFG, IPCC Support, CRU Inquiry, Stickiness of Myths, Mclean, Late Comments Melting Arctic, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Neoliberal Food Policies, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures…
illconsidered | April 3, 2010I would like to share a press release from the University of Minnesota I received a few days ago announcing a short video on environmental sustainability.
Press release as follows:
Greetings from the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment.
For 10,000 years, our world seemed endless. The sky was the limit. But today's world looks much smaller. We've cleared, consumed and polluted our way across the globe. The planet is shrinking. Have we pushed Earth past the tipping point? That's a critical issue we explore in our second Big Question video, which draws on research from "…
illconsidered | April 2, 2010One thing the blogosphere is good for is spirited discussion and fast dissemination of news stories. One thing it is not good for is the old addage "where there's smoke, there's fire".
The recent "swifthacking" of CRU email (aka "climategate") is a great example of tremendous amounts of smoke being created out of something statistically indistinguishable from bupkus.
The UK's House of Commons has released a report after weeks of careful investigation into the details and implications of the illegally obtained and distributed emails to and from a handful of East Anglia University climate…
illconsidered | March 30, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup
skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Sipping from the internet firehose...March 28, 2010 Chuckles, COP15, COP16, WWD, Upcoming Meetings, Oh Oh, Anthropocene, Mitloehner, Mclean, Earth Hour Bottom Line, Carbon Tariffs, Risk, UN CFG, The Race, Lewis, Pro IPCC, CRU SAP, Samanta Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Hurricanes,…
illconsidered | March 26, 2010Call me a skeptic, but this just sounds crazy.
Brighten the oceans by making billions of tiny bubbles. And what about the marine life that is now plunged into shadow? Changed ocean chemistry? International agreements about cost and location? "Unknown unknowns?"
What if we stop one day?
Are we ready to bet the biosphere and our civilization on new and extreme technologies? If anyone thinks "hell yeah, we can do anything!" then why can't we just replace our energy sources with non-carbon emitting ones?
Oh yeah, and what about the other carbon dioxide problem?
illconsidered | March 22, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup
skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years March 21, 2010 Equinox, COP15, COP16, PWCoCC & MER, Bonn, MEF, State of the Climate, Samanta, Earth Hour World Bank, Outsourcing CO2, Mean Green, IPCC Failures, IPCC Support, Wrong Green, CRU Melting Arctic, ASTI, CITES, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs,…
illconsidered | March 16, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup
skip to bottom Information overload is pattern recognition March 14, 2010 Chuckles, COP15, COP16 and Beyond, Paris, Wrong Green, CERA, Outsourcing CO2, World Bank, UN CFG IPCC Review, IPCC Support, CRU Theft, UK Wind, Samanta, Anthony's Question, NASgate Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Svalbard, Land Grabs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, Aerosols, Paleoclimate…
illconsidered | March 12, 2010Not really apropos to climate change, but I saw this and just had to share.
Ever wondered what it would look like if you could actually see the entire network of tunnels that make up a large ant colony? Well, all it takes is 10 tons of concrete and a few months of labour.
Oh yeah, it also takes a willingness to destroy what you want to study. I have always had mixed feelings about that.
illconsidered | March 8, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup
skip to bottom Sipping from the internet firehose... March 7, 2010 Chuckle, Copenhagen, Yvo de Boer, COP-16, UN-CFG, Anthony's Question, Precautionary Principle, Greenhouse Effect Bottom Line, Carbon Tariffs, World Bank, AAAS, IPCC Review, Interpreting Polls, Pushback, CRU Inquiry Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, Food…
illconsidered | March 5, 2010From up north, we have some more troubling news. Actually very troubling. Catastophic release of methane hydrates is a prime suspect in a few events dramatic enough to show in the earth's geological records, coarse and obscured as that record may be. (Our actions today will be featured prominently in that record for anyone looking back a million years from now.) It has been a worry for many years that humanity is running the risk of triggering such a release again, which would truly pile disaster on top of calamity.
New research coming out in Science today indicates that this most dire of…
illconsidered | March 4, 2010This is interesting. I have mixed feelings about it but it is probably a necessary step in forcing the reality of this issue into the correct legal and political context. Actions have consequences and actors have responsibilities.
The only question I have is that the respnsibility is really shared by all of us as consumers of fossil fuels, in some sense it is not fair to place all the respnsibility on the fossil fuel companies.
Of course when they intentionally create misinformation to avoid addressing the problem, the face a corresponding increase in culpability.
Read it below:
Katrina…
illconsidered | March 3, 2010While on the subject of great work by Tim Lambert, his recent debate with Christopher Monkton is available for viewing here.
It is 113 minutes long and I am pressed for time, so I am posting it before watching it. Feel free to point out favorite parts in the comments. Thanks to the Sydney Morning Herald for putting it on.
I have no doubt it will be educational and entertaining, can't wait to see it!
illconsidered | March 3, 2010Here is an interesting analysis designed for those who claim that CO2 does not correlate to temperature. (Sound familiar?). It is by a recently familiar name from the comments, Joseph.
I am not statistically well endowed, but Robert Grumbine comes to the same conclusion that when you accept the noisy nature of the data (aka reality) the fact is that CO2 does correlate to the modern temperature record very well, as expected.
How does Joseph's analysis look? He has some big numbers in terms of confidence.
illconsidered | March 2, 2010Unfortunately for an unscientifically inclined mind, one bitter cold winter is worth many mountains of research in the quest for the truth about climate change. And unfortunately for our choking biosphere, political action will likely remain an impossibility until we are well and truly past the alledged cessation of warming.
I received an apparently sincere comment that expressed what must be a common feeling in the general public:
You guys are so far scientifically over my head that it is impossible
for me to participate in this conversation. But consider that most
people are like me,…
illconsidered | March 1, 2010So Tim Lambert has been a busy blogger this last month with some really first rate investigative work on the truly abysmal rash of shoddy climate journalism in the UK. Check out his Leakgate category for a multitude of "must read" postings.
Also see Eli on Leakeng Ships. for another run down of Tim's work.
Real Climate did a good roundup of the phony spate of IPCC scandals as well, here and here (if you only click one of those links, click the first because it has some excellent background on the IPCC to add some reality perspective to the whole mess).
I don't understand how reporters can…
illconsidered | March 1, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup
skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News February 21, 2010 Chuckles, Copenhagen, Nusa Dua, Blue Carbon, COP-16, China's Emissions, Bonn, WMO Meeting, iPhone App Bottom Line, Hamilton, McKibben, Gates, IPCC Review, CRU Inquiry Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica, Mertz Glacier Tongue Food Crisis, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures,…
illconsidered | February 28, 2010Here is a nice short film (~20 minutes) about ocean acidification, the "other carbon dioxide problem", the reason geoengineering "solutions" like orbiting sun shades are not solutions.
It is only about one third doom and gloom, sandwiched between the natural beauty of what we have now in the beginning and some hopeful prospects for the future at the end.
I found it worth watching:
(thanks go to MT for posting it at his place.)
illconsidered | February 24, 2010Being from Vancouver, I can't let the winter olympics go by without at least one brief note. They are going on for a week and a half now, but by design, I am back in Australia for work.
I love Vancouver, it's a beautiful city:
But, I am no fan of the olympics, so I am delighted to share an amusing sign put up somewhere in the interior of British Columbia:
To avoid persecution by the Olympic Special Forces, the exact location and the friend who sent it to me will remain unnamed (hi, Steve!).
illconsidered | February 22, 2010 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup
skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information overload is pattern recognition February 21, 2010 Chuckles, de Boer Resignation, Copenhagen, UN-CFG, AAAS, Greenhouse Effect, Snow, Branson, Gates, iPhone App Bottom Line, Dunning-Kruger, IPCC, RealClimate on IPCC, FOI as a Weapon, Mann, CRU, Denialist Campaign Melting Arctic, Permafrost Line, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis,…