illconsidered | December 8, 2008 Sipping from the internet firehose...
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) December 7, 2008 Top Stories:Poznan, Recession, UN Atlas, Methane, Nahcolite, IEA WEO. THC, ICE, Melting Arctic, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Feedbacks, Paleoclimate, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites, DSCOVR Impacts, Forests, Climate Refugees, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts, Venice Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings,…
illconsidered | December 5, 2008The following article is a guest post by H. E. Taylor, who you might recognize as the one who graciously provides us with the weekly GW news roundups. Enjoy!
Prospects for Change in Canadian Climate Policy
In short, the prospects are bleak and are likely to be driven from the United States. Let me explain.
Those of you living elsewhere may have noticed during all the Obama razzmatazz that a Canadian election was called in September and held in October. These are the results from Elections Canada.Party MPs Votes Popular VoteBloc Québécois 50 1,379,565 10.0% Conservative 143 5,205,334 37.6…
illconsidered | December 5, 2008We have discussed that persistent question here before: what word to use when talking about people who simply refuse to acknowledge in the slightest the rather solid case for the theory of anthropogenic global warming.
I was thinking it would be worth a very in depth and lengthy post. But I gratefully bow to Greenfyre's excellent essy on the subject which you can (and should IMO) read in full right here.
He makes all of the points I would have plus a good deal more.
illconsidered | December 4, 2008Tired of the same old crap for Christmas?
Why not buy some new crap?
illconsidered | December 4, 2008A growing number of think tanks sound good for the environment but advocate for industries that could cause environmental headaches. (You think Americans for Balanced Energy Choices touts solar power? Nope.)
Try to match the groups with their mission.
More in depth examination of the front group industry here.
illconsidered | December 3, 2008I know blogs are supposed to be all about up to the second news and gossip. but sometimes I just don't get through my reading list in a very timely manner, what can I say?
So I thought I would just quickly share a small pile of good postings from around the local climate blogosphere, along with a smattering of pithy commentary (because if I'm anything at all, it is pithy ;-)
Eli Rabbet is a masochistic bunny who likes to visit horrible places like Jenn Marohasey's blog. Jenn is one of those "honest" sceptics who just likes to explore interesting alternate views of science, like maybe the…
illconsidered | December 1, 2008"While we have been working on the economy, the Opposition has been working on a backroom deal to overturn the results of the last election without seeking the consent of voters," Harper said. "They want to take power, not earn it.
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So says Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada
Of course, if the will of the voters had really been for him to govern they would have given the Conservatives a majority. Given they did not get that majority, a coalition government is hardly undemocratic! This quote is from this story here. According to this bit of good news, there is a real possibility of a…
illconsidered | December 1, 2008 Sipping from the internet firehose...
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) November 30, 2008 Top Stories:Poznan, Recession Gambits, ICE, Mandate Survey NW Passage, Greenland Geopolitics, Wilkins, Icebergs Calving, Romm & Revkin, Late Comments Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Hurricanes, GHG Stats, Carbon Cycle, Paleoclimate, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites, DSCOVR Impacts, Forests, Corals, Floods & Droughts Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings,…
illconsidered | November 25, 2008...on whether or not the EPA should regulate CO2, the primary cause of climate disruption today.
I received this via unsolicited email:
Friday is the last day to voice your opinion on whether the EPA -- the Environmental Protection Agency -- should regulate carbon dioxide pollution, the primary cause of the climate crisis. This is a big deal.
The EPA is taking public comment before making a ruling. I sent my message in and it will appear on the EPA's website, and be part of the public record.
Of course, special interests -- like the oil and coal lobbies -- are working overtime to defeat a…
illconsidered | November 25, 2008Okay, so this clip is a bit long (~10 minutes) and it is mostly Fox Noise, but it is really fascinating to watch this one guy, Peter Schiff, being dead on in his economic predictions and advice over and over and over again, and even more interesting to watch the the boobleheads laugh at him and wisely wag their fingers.
They even talk about what a bargain buy and how solid Meryl Lynch is, about one year ago!
But like New Orleans and Katrina, "no one" saw this mess coming....
illconsidered | November 25, 2008So it took me a long time to finally watch the last segment, but I did find this documentary from PBS to be very engaging and very informative.
Maybe not so encouraging though...
FWIW, In It for the Gold agrees you should go watch it.
The synopsis is here:
Melting glaciers, rising sea levels, fires, floods and droughts. On the eve of a historic election, award-winning producer and correspondent Martin Smith investigates how the world's largest corporations and governments are responding to Earth's looming environmental disaster.
illconsidered | November 24, 2008This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
In his June 23, 2008 testimony before the United States Congress, James Hansen called for the punishment of climate change skeptics for "crimes against humanity". This is a mockery of free speech, the antithesis of scientific investigation and a clear indication that global warming "science" is just another religious persecution like the Catholic Church's persecution of Galileo.
Answer:
The accusation is simply false. James Hansen never…
illconsidered | November 24, 2008 Sipping from the internet firehose...
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 November 23, 2008 Top Stories:IEA WEO, Poznan, Recession, Global Trends 2025 Arctic Geopolitics, Antarctic, Winter Forecasts, ABC, H2O Machine, Late Comments Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, Carbon Cycle, Feedbacks, ENSO, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites Impacts, Forests,…
illconsidered | November 21, 2008You all should check out some beautiful photographs of bacterial cultures Seed Magazine has in one of its "portfolios".
There are many other great sets there too, of all kinds of things.
illconsidered | November 21, 2008I received this via unsolicited email and thought it important analysis to share:
Stunning Break with Last Eight Years
In the first two weeks since the election, President-elect Barack Obama has broken with a tradition established over the past eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences, political observers say.
Millions of Americans who watched Mr. Obama's appearance on CBS' "Sixty Minutes" on Sunday witnessed the president-elect's unorthodox verbal tick, which had Mr. Obama employing grammatically correct sentences virtually every time he opened his mouth. But Mr.…
illconsidered | November 20, 2008A Few Things Ill Considered is just as happy as the next vile, hate-spewing, far left smear machine that Barack Obama actually won the recent US Presidential election, but I have to say I am so ready to be really disappointed!
Call me a cynic, but we've had progress waved under our noses before, only to have it snatched away by spineless, self-serving Democratic congress people and the harsh reality that the real power structures in the US are not all elected officials.
Nevertheless, when it comes to tackling climate change, the signs are really hopeful, even if the challenge is enormous.
I…
illconsidered | November 18, 2008This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.
Objection:
In October, 2008, Al Gore's science advisor, James Hansen announced yet another "hottest" month on record. After all the alarmist banner headlines sank in, yet another "correction" quietly contradicted this, and October was not particularily warm after all. This is yet another example of why the temperature record can not be trusted.
Answer:
Wow. Where to begin with this one? There are many versions of this myth around already at the time…
illconsidered | November 17, 2008As the CO2 in the atmosphere continues to climb, already at a dangerous level, and the argument about doing something about it seems to have only just begun in the power circles, I fear that actively removing it is rapidly becoming an imperative.
But is this doable?
I don't know...I sure hope so. And not just for climate change, but also for ocean acidification. Removing CO2 directly from the atmosphere is really a form of geoengineering and part of a principal that I find extremely worrisome. I would have counted myself deadset against geoengineering of any sort before reading an essay…