climate change
sastyk | April 23, 2012Note, I'm horrified to realize I inadvertantly left out the link to Rhagavan's piece - SO SORRY about that, and please do click through - it is well worth a full read.
Barath Rhagavan has a superb article about the conversion of many climate scientists to support of nuclear power and the reasons this is problematic. These match my own major objections to nuclear as a response. As serious as the environmental impact of failure is, that's not the single biggest issue I see. Even if I thought the siting would avoid any future climate related disasters (I don't), the main issue is the…
illconsidered | April 23, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsThis 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 Anthropocene Antics Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsApril 22, 2012 Chuckles, Rio+20, Earth Day, EGU 2012, Elgin, KPMG, Brotz Maldives, Grumbine, B-Corps, Subsidies, World Bank, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, IPY Conference, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs…
illconsidered | April 16, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsThis 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 Anthropocene Antics Sipping from the Internet Firehose...April 15, 2012 Chuckles, Rio+20, Elgin, Fretwell, March, Maldives, Shakun, SREX Subsidies, GFIs, Hype, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food Riots, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, Paleoclimate…
illconsidered | April 10, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsThis 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 is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomApril 8, 2012 Chuckles, Shakun, DeConto, Maldives, Elgin Heatwave, Earth Hour, CPDN, SREX, Subsidies, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, IP Issues, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes,…
sastyk | April 2, 2012We're very tiny maple producers, and only on a home scale. I boil the syrup down on the back of our woodstove, and collect the syrup from old plastic buckets. Our operation is stone-age compared to our more serious neighbors. We don't have much of a sugar bush - most of our land was open 30 years ago, and we have only a moderate number of maple trees and many of those too small to tap. In twenty years, it should be respectable, though, as maples replace many of the other first growth trees. If, of course, it isn't too warm for them.
This year we tapped for only two weeks - the warm…
illconsidered | April 2, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsThis 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 Global Warming News Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionApril 1, 2012 Chuckles, Rio+20, SREX, PuP, Coumou & Rahmstorf, Rowlands et al., Som et al., Elgin March Weather, Earth Hour, GM & HI, Subsidies, GFIs, Intimidation, Cook, de Boer SEI Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, GMOs…
sastyk | March 29, 2012
In Mildred Kalish's brilliant memoir, _Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression_ she writes of the ways that children and adults alike were blindsided by fear in a crisis. For children, the fear was that events out of their control terrified and shook the stable human anchors of their lives. For the adults, events were just is incomprehensible, but they had the added burden that they were supposed to understand what was going on:
"Though we didn't understand them, we children were seldom protected from the harsh realities of the period, and…
sastyk | March 23, 2012...My laundry pile was empty. I mean, empty. Nothing more to wash.
This unprecedented state of affairs (in a working farm household with 6 people, four of them attracted to mud like magnets) didn't last long - then Asher dumped his muddy socks on the floor and Eli took a bath and pushed the towel into the tub and then the kids got out of the clothes bearing the day's accumulated grime - but I did briefly have no laundry to do. None.
Other people may think this is a weird thing to worry about, but you have to understand my life. There is ALWAYS laundry in the pile, there are ALWAYS…
tfk | March 21, 2012If you wonder why I haven't been blogging lately, it's because I've been trying to keep science safe in the Volunteer State; for instance, here's a great piece Huffington Post science editor Cara Santa Maria put together, including an interview with yours truly.
If you watch the NCSE front page (and you should), you'll see that it's almost all-Tennessee, all the time. Tennessee is getting ready to repeat an unfortunate part of its state's history, the Butler Act and Scopes trial of the 1920s.
Of course, creationism evolves, so the 21st century version won't take the same tack. In 1925,…
illconsidered | March 19, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsThis 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 in the Planetary Crisis Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsMarch 18, 2012 Chuckles, Frowns, COP18+, Rio+20, UN WWDR, Future Heartland, Koch - Cato, Bottom Line, Subsidies, GFIs, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, ENSO…
illconsidered | March 12, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsThis 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 in the Planetary Crisis Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomMarch 11, 2012 Chuckles, Durban, IWD, Koch-Cato, Heartland, Sustainia, Shrinkology Hönisch, Liu, Weaver & Swart, Bottom Line, Subsidies, WB, Ecocide, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Polar Bear, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices,…
denialism | March 8, 2012I think it's a nice, succinct description of the problem of climate change from one of the leaders of the field.
On a related note the nation of Kiribati is relocating to Fiji as their island nation is disappearing.
gregladen | March 8, 2012Quite possibly Pete Sinclair's best and most important videos yet.
Click here to get more background from Peter Sinclair's site.
The post refers to this book: The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
illconsidered | March 5, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsThis 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 in the Planetary Crisis Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionMarch 4, 2012 Chuckles, Judicial Humour, Maldives, Liu et al., Hönisch et al., Weaver & Swart Cato Suit, Harris, Heartland, Bottom Line, Subsidies, Global Legal Framework, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices,…
sastyk | March 5, 2012I wrote this for Dr, Seuss's 105th birthday, and thought it was worth posting (a bit belatedly) for his 108th.
I once read an incredibly entertaining literary critical analysis of _The Cat in the Hat_ which began from the premise that all the action in TCITH is an attempt to fill up the overwhelming absence of the mother from the scene. She has "gone out for the day" leaving her children untended, something she clearly is in the habit of doing, since there's a sequel with the same issue embedded. The glimpses we get of "mother's new gown" and her empty bedstead stand in implicit reference…
illconsidered | March 4, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsThis 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 in the Planetary Crisis Sipping from the Internet Firehose...February 26, 2012 Chuckles, Europe, Weaver & Swart, WB-GPO, Blue Planet, AAAS, Equinox, Coalition Heartland Leak: Docs, Provenance, Gleick, Legalities, Ethics, Funding, Framing, Education, Misc Subsidies, Thermodynamics, Global Legal Framework, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy…
illconsidered | March 4, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsThis 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 in the Ecological Crisis Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsFebruary 19, 2012 Chuckles, Coalition, Europe, AAAS, Intimidation, Maldives, Correlation, Status, Mashey Heartland Leak: Docs, Provenance, Funding, Education, Scientists' Letter, Miscellaneous Thermodynamics, Global Legal Framework, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting…
denialism | March 1, 2012About a month ago I asked if denialism is truly more frequent on the right or is it that the issues of the day are ones that are more likely to be targets of right wing denialism? After all, one can think of slightly more left wing sources of denialism like GMO paranoia, 9/11 conspiracies, altie-meds, and toxin fear-mongering. The mental heuristics that cause people to believe, and then entrench themselves, in nonsense seem generalizable to humanity rather than just those attracted to conservative politics. Why should those who identify as liberal be any different? Wouldn't they just…
gregladen | February 26, 2012Watch the whole thing:
Brilliant. Click here for the background on this nice video.
tfk | February 21, 2012Shorter David Klinghoffer: National Center for Science Education, Darwin/Climate Enforcers, Humiliated by Forged Document Scandal:
Ethical questions about someone with no formal ties to NCSE clearly demonstrates the scientific, pedagogical, and moral failings of NCSE.
So Peter Gleick outed himself as the source of the Heartland board documents released last week, and now lots of people are chasing the shiny toy of how and why Gleick did it, rather than the important story of what the documents say.
But how and why Gleick did it, and even that Gleick did it, is irrelevant to most people, while…