climate change
illconsidered | January 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 Climate Disruption News Sipping from the Internet Firehose...January 1, 2012 Chuckles, HNY, Retrospectives, Oil & Sunlight, Ecuador, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, Paleoclimate…
illconsidered | December 27, 2011I think I saw this on Planet 3.0, but wherever, the video below, documenting the late Stephen Sneider's remarkable efforts to communicate the urgency and nuance of our climate crises to the public, is very well done. Please watch.
illconsidered | December 19, 2011 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 notWisdomDecember 18, 2011 Chuckles, Durban, Horn of Africa, Canada & Kyoto, AGU, Retro Bottom Line, Ecocide, Cook, Post CRU, FOI Weapon Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs,…
hrynyshyn | December 14, 2011Maybe it's just me, desperately searching for optimistic signals in the noise that dominates the mainstream coverage of climate change, but could there be something happening out there, something attesting to a new, more mature interpretation of the challenge facing society at large?
Item 1: The Economist publishes an impassioned lament. This from a magazine that for so long seemed althogether disinterested in the subject:
A HUNDRED years from now, looking back, the only question that will appear important about the historical moment in which we now live is the question of whether or not we…
hrynyshyn | December 13, 2011The thing about the "Durban Platform for Enhanced Action," is that it simultaneously manages to both exceed expectations and demolish any remaining hope for real action. In effect, it tells us everything we need to know about geopolitics of climate change.
As the name implies, this is an agreement for further negotiations. The basic idea is the world will talk for another four years, with the ultimate goal of some kind of undefined "legal" agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions beginning in 2020. Given how far apart are the developing and developing worlds on who is responsible for…
illconsidered | December 12, 2011 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 Overloadis Pattern RecognitionDecember 11, 2011 Chuckles, COP18+, Durban: Accord, Text, Reports, Kyoto, GCF, Protests, Misc Horn of Africa, AGU, Huber & Knutti, Bottom Line, Subsidies, GFIs, Free Science, CCPI, Ecocide, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane,…
hrynyshyn | December 9, 2011Compare and contrast:
The team's new examination of the paleo-climate record now shows that "a global warming of a couple degrees Celsius would basically create a different planet," Hansen warned. It's different than the one that humanity, that civilization knows about. If we look at the paleo record, the target of two degrees Celsius is actually a prescription for long-term disaster." [Source]
and
I think that we look at two degrees as an important and serious goal which ought to guide what we do ... it ought to inform our sense of what needs to be done. It might well cause us or anybody…
illconsidered | December 9, 2011DemocracyNow! broadcasts this whole week from the climate talks in Durban, South Africa.
illconsidered | December 8, 2011DemocracyNow! broadcasts this whole week from the climate talks in Durban, South Africa.
illconsidered | December 7, 2011DemocracyNow! broadcasts this whole week from the climate talks in Durban, South Africa.
illconsidered | December 6, 2011DemocracyNow! broadcasts this whole week from the climate talks in Durban, South Africa.
illconsidered | December 6, 2011
No, this is not Steve McIntyre finally coming out with his own multi-century proxy temperature reconstruction. Nor is it Anthony Watt's release of his surfacestations.org temperature reanalysis.
It is the take away figure from a recent paper in Nature by Kinnard et al that reconstructs the extent of arctic sea ice over the last 1450 years.
Tamino has a discussion of it here.
There is not really much to add to the thousand words that image conveys.
illconsidered | December 5, 2011DemocracyNow! broadcasts this whole week from the climate talks in Durban, South Africa.
lborkowski | December 5, 2011by Mark Pendergrast
This is my third and final post about the state of Japan's renewable energy efforts and other measures that are vital to prevent further climate change and to wean the country from fossil fuel and nuclear power. In my first post, I covered the public-health impacts of climate change and explained why Japan is good indicator of whether countries will be able to act quickly enough in the face of these threats. Japan's reliance on imported fossil fuels gives it a good reason to invest in alternatives, and its technological sophistication should help it develop renewable-…
illconsidered | December 5, 2011 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 Sipping from the Internet Firehose...December 4, 2011 Chuckles, COP18+, Durban Reports, Durban GCF, Durban Kyoto, Durban Protests, Durban Misc Horn of Africa, Bottom Line, GFIs, Crap Detector, Ecocide, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Report Card, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food…
lborkowski | November 30, 2011by Mark Pendergrast
This is my second post in a series of three about the state of Japan's renewable energy efforts, which are vital to prevent further climate change and to wean the country from fossil fuel and nuclear power. In the previous post, I covered the public-health impacts of climate change and explained why Japan is a good indicator of whether countries will be able to act quickly enough in the face of these threats. Japan's reliance on imported fossil fuels gives it a good reason to invest in alternatives, and its technological sophistication should help it develop renewable-…
hrynyshyn | November 28, 2011I would be remiss if I didn't direct your attention to a new paper in Science that concludes, however tentatively, that the global climate may not be as sensitive to rising atmosheric CO2 levels as everyone has assumed. It is, after all, a rare dose of optimism in a field that has been characterized by "it's worse than expected" findings for pretty much its entire history.
"Climate Sensitivity Estimated From Temperature Reconstructions of the Last Glacial Maximum" appeared last week on American Thanksgiving, thus managing to avoid much in way of media coverage. Science has put it behind a…
illconsidered | November 28, 2011 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 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsNovember 27, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, Horn of Africa, Schmittner et al. CRU2, SREX, GCF, Ecocide, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Antarctica Food Crisis, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Aerosols, Paleoclimate ENSO,…
illconsidered | November 21, 2011 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 is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomNovember 20, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, CVF, Horn of Africa, SREX, NY State Lee et al., WEO, BEST, Subsidies, GCF, Cook, Post CRU Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, European I-131 Melting Arctic, Polar Bear, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food Production…
hrynyshyn | November 17, 2011"Major storms could submerge New York City in next decade" cries a randomly selected mainstream media outlet over a story about a new report warning residents that climate change could make life difficult in the not-too-distant future. The report, from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, is pretty standard stuff for those who have been paying attention to the growing link between global warming and extreme weather. And maybe it will spur New Yorkers to take the subject a bit more seriously.
But there's a certain set who will welcome this 600-page conpendium of…