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illconsidered | October 22, 2012Logging 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
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Another Week in the Ecological Crisis
Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
October 21, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, CBD-COP11, Mayor, Knight, OIF, Uranium, GCF, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes,…
illconsidered | October 15, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week in the Ecological Crisis
Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
October 14, 2012
Wonderment, COP18+, State of the Planet, Conservation Targets, Maldives
Subsidies, World Bank, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes,…
illconsidered | October 8, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Instability News
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
October 7, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, 50 Months, Too Conservative?, CCS vs Renewables, Maldives
Bottom Line, Hochberg, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food…
illconsidered | October 2, 2012Peter Sinclair has posted the second of a two part series documenting a trip he took with Mauri Pelto into the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest's Cascade range of mountains. Below are both part one and two of that series.
illconsidered | October 1, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Instability News
Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdom
September 30, 2012
Chuckles, Rio+20, UNGA, DARA, Attitudes, Maldives, Too Conservative?, Reichler
Bottom Line, Global Legal Framework, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO…
illconsidered | September 24, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Instability News
Information Overloadis Pattern Recognition
September 23, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, Arctic Nukes, Séralini, Arctic Sea Ice
Bottom Line, Weather Machine, Cook, Shrinkology
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Ring Seals, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO…
illconsidered | September 21, 2012NSIDC has (preliminarily) announced the new record low ice extent for 2012.
On September 16, 2012 sea ice extent dropped to 3.41 million square kilometers (1.32 million square miles). This appears to have been the lowest extent of the year. In response to the setting sun and falling temperatures, ice extent will now climb through autumn and winter. However, a shift in wind patterns or a period of late season melt could still push the ice extent lower. The minimum extent was reached three days later than the 1979 to 2000 average minimum date of September 13.
This year’s minimum was 760,000…
illconsidered | September 19, 2012BOZEMAN, Mont. – Late in the afternoon earlier this month Charles Worth was hiking with his dog, Brownie, down Deep Creek Trail in Montana, toward the Yellowstone River, when he noticed a churning column of smoke in front of him. Only a mile from the trailhead and his truck, he stopped to weigh his chances.
The fire was heading toward him up the drainage. A thick stand of dry timber stood between him and the smoke. He retreated to a boulder field and watched. The fire moved fast. Suddenly it was burning in the close timber. Worth had to make a move. He decided to run for it, back up the trail…
illconsidered | September 19, 2012Deep Climate has a great run down of Richard Muller's recent public appearances and some details on his ties to the Koch brothers, it is well worth a careful read. And while we're talking about Richard Muller, check out NPR's shameful decision to "balance" Muller's converted-to-mainstream scientific views with the provision of a soap box to Anthony Watts, master of BS (aka Blog Science). Video interview is below, I have not decided if I want to expose myself to that or not....
This was also discussed on P3.
illconsidered | September 17, 2012POTSDAM – In 1845, Captain Sir John Franklin of the British Royal Navy led 128 men on two iron-plated steam ships, Erebus and Terror, into the Arctic, where they eventually disappeared. The voyage was the culmination of four centuries of failed attempts to navigate the Northwest Passage – a direct route from Europe to Asia across the Arctic Ocean – and remains one of the greatest tragedies in the history of polar exploration.
Today, a far greater Arctic tragedy is unfolding: the Arctic sea-ice cap is melting. Last month, an unprecedented new low was reached after decades of decline. Indeed,…
illconsidered | September 17, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Instability News
Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
September 16, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, IAC, Death Valley, Bottom Line, GCF, Ecocide, Cook, TV Weather
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Fauna, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes,…
esiegel | September 12, 2012"Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes; everybody knows." -Leonard Cohen
As you know, last week I took my first week off of the year, and went on a trip to Glacier National Park, which was my very first time there. Although I've spent a lot of time in the mountains, including some pretty icy and snowy places, I'd never walked on an actual glacier before. All of that was about to change…
illconsidered | September 10, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Disruption News
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
September 9, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, CAT, Maldives
Subsidies, GFIs, Pricing Nature, Cook, Meteorologists
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Speculation, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs,…
illconsidered | September 10, 2012Further to my mention of Ken Caldiera's recent Scientific American article "The Great Climate Experiment" the other day, I wanted to call attention to this passages as well:
the vast oceans resist change, but change they will. At no time in Earth’s past—with the possible exception of mass-extinction events—has ocean chemistry changed as much and as rapidly as scientists expect it to over the coming decades. When CO2 enters the oceans, it reacts with seawater to become carbonic acid. In high enough concentrations, this carbonic acid can cause the shells and skeletons of many marine organisms…
illconsidered | September 6, 2012We have another climate metric to add to W/m^2 (climate forcing), GT/year (CO2 emissions), mm/year (sea level rise) and oC/decade (temperature change) and that would be m/day.
Meters per day is for tracking how quickly climatic zones will move as a result of man-made climate change and it is actually an astonishingly high number. David Appell at Quark Soup uses some rough numbers and comes up with a figure of 8 metres/day over the last 20 years. He bases this calculation on an article in the Scientific American (sounds like an oxymoron these days!) by Ken Caldiera who looks at the average…
illconsidered | September 6, 2012
August sea ice extent in the Arctic this year was 640,000 square kilometers below the previous record set in 2007. It is also already a record monthly low for any month, though that record will not last as it is going to be broken this September when the lowest extent of the year is normally reached. In less than the last two months, multi-year ice declined by 33% and the oldest ice (over 5 years) declined by 54% (and that ice ain't coming back). While the unusual Arctic Cyclone probably had a noticeable impact on the evolution of this year's (still deepening) record ice loss, it must be…
illconsidered | September 4, 2012Most of you will have heard by now of Mitt Romney's convention chuckle at the expense of the global biosphere, of which you and your family are of a part:
"President Obama promised to slow the rise of the oceans and to heal the planet. My promise is to help you and your family."
(Full text is here)
Bill McKibben's tweet in response is pretty perfect: "On some other planet, apparently". Planet3.0 has a lengthier and very good exposition on what underlies the success of such a mockery.
My only thought on what Dan has written is that all us concerned individuals in the greater blogosphere…
illconsidered | September 3, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Disruption News
Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdom
September 2, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, PIF, AMS, Wadham, Maldives EU-Aus ETS, GCF, Cook, Meteorologists
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMO Labelling,…
illconsidered | August 28, 2012Logging 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
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Another Week of Climate Disruption News
Information Overloadis Pattern Recognition
August 26, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, Overshoot Day, The Critical Decade, GCF, Thermodynamics, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes,…