climate change
illconsidered | March 18, 2014A very good video on the gulf that exists between the climate science experts and the general population in terms of awareness and alarm regarding anthropogenic climate change:
(from a comment on a P3 thread)
The essence of this impending calamity is, more than anything else, a story of betrayal: betrayal of a naively trusting population by its political leaders and even more by its news media. When the denial of this crisis is finally seen to be as implausible and ludicrous as it already is, it may be too late. It may be too late already to avoid truly terrible consequences, but we must…
illconsidered | March 17, 2014This 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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Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
March 16, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, GCF, Tactics, RS/NAS, Warnings, Ides of March, Energiewende
World Bank, Global Legal Framework, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Anniversary, Policies, Related Papers
Melting Arctic, Methane, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Svalbard, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes, Notable Weather, New Weather, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Aerosols
Climate Sensitivity, Ozone…
illconsidered | March 14, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 82
Table of Contents
Chapter 84
Chapter 83
The World Park, December 3, 2059
The next UNGETF meeting opened like an autopsy. Peter started with a catalogue of the destruction wrought at the L1 point. "The command centre has been destroyed, as have several dozen of the 1 km. sunshields. But there were more than 2,000 of them, so a sizeable number still exist. Some were damaged by flying debris; many were not."
"Some factions have expressed a desire to repair and rebuild the cluster; however, with the AU forbidding financial support, Group 5 has no…
illconsidered | March 10, 2014Featured image is one of 19 illustrated haiku laying out the IPCC Summary for Policy Makers, posted with permission, see them all here.
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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Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
March 9, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, Flood Prediction, Warnings, RS/NAS, Energiewende
Bottom Line, Thermodynamics, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies, Related Papers
Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Prices, GMOs, Production…
illconsidered | March 7, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 81
Table of Contents
Chapter 83
Chapter 82
Rescued, November 20, 2059
The next day, Jon was formally charged by the IEC. they called it ecological crimes against humanity. Suddenly everyone had something to say. The media showed up. There were vloggers and agency stringers waiting for me when I left the university.
I answered a bunch of questions, many of them repetitious and silly. I had just declared, "the next person who asks me how I feel and not what I think will end the scrum," when a new stringer rolled up with half a dozen newseyes and…
pgleick | March 6, 2014In the last few months, as the severe California drought has garnered attention among scientists, policymakers, and media, there has been a growing debate about the links between the drought and climate change. The debate has been marked by considerable controversy, confusion, and opaqueness.
The confusion stems from the failure of some scientists, bloggers, reporters, and others to distinguish among three separate questions. All three questions are scientifically interesting. But the three are different in their nuance, their importance to policy, and their interest to politicians and water…
milhayser | March 6, 2014It's been a frigid winter in much of the United States, but Greg Laden notes that the country covers only 1.5% of the Earth's surface, and overall the planet just experienced the fourth-warmest January on record. Meanwhile global warming denialists are resorting to every rhetorical trick in the book, such as comparing their increasingly outnumbered position to that of Galileo. While it's tempting to recount the history of science as that of a few brilliant mavericks overthrowing established consensus, Greg writes "Science hardly ever gets Galileoed, and even Galileo did not Galileo science…
illconsidered | March 4, 2014Featured image is one of 19 illustrated haiku laying out the IPCC Summary for Policy Makers, posted with permission, see them all here.
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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Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
March 2, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, WG2 Leak, WOS, RS/NAS, Jacobson, Energiewende, Bottom Line, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes,…
illconsidered | February 28, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 80
Table of Contents
Chapter 82
Chapter 81
Visitation Rights, November 19, 2059
I watched the days tick by, waiting for Wednesday. How would Jon receive me? What would his state of mind be? I was on tenterhooks when I placed the call. I should have known better.
"The prisoner Jon Fontaine can only receive visitation between 1400 and 1500." I was informed by a bored looking official.
It was just after 8 in the morning, and there was a one hour time difference which meant I had another 5 hours to wait. Plus I had a lecture scheduled at 10:00.
I had a…
illconsidered | February 24, 2014This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundupskip to bottom Information Overload is Pattern RecognitionFebruary 23, 2014 Chuckles, COP20+, G20, NAFTA, England et al., Energiewende Bottom Line, Subsidies, Crap Detector, CookFukushima: Note, News, Related Papers Melting Arctic, Methane, AntarcticaFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Revolt, Land Grabs, GMOs, Production Hurricanes, Weather: Notable, Wacky, Forecasts, Extreme, New GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Aerosols, Volcanoes, Feedbacks,…
illconsidered | February 20, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 79
Table of Contents
Chapter 81
Chapter 80
Makeba, November 14, 2055
Aretha,
I would like to call your attention to an SRM device of which I have recently been apprised.
The rough theory is in the UNGETF database, keyword Sunbugs. An implementation is to be found in the FabNet archives, same keyword. It requires a Fraunhoeffer chemical synthesizer to which I do not have access, but I believe you do.
It might be a viable replacement for the sunshield.
Trust you are well.
cordially,
Luc Fontaine
Excerpted from _The Bottleneck Years_ by H.E. Taylor
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pgleick | February 20, 2014We’ve entered a new era: politicians can now talk loud and clear about the reality of human-induced climate change and the growing threats to humanity. With strong, unambiguous statements by President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, and a growing chorus of other top-level voices, the wholesale denial of climate science is increasingly relegated to a tiny group of industry-funded voices and their followers (directly mirroring the tobacco story decades ago); confused or ignorant politicians; and those who hope to avoid the difficult policy discussions by…
illconsidered | February 18, 2014As most of you know already, England's dramatic sequence of winter storms since December has resulted in its worst winter on record. England's records go back 248 years. (Al Jazeera is reporting 300 years). Who knows if such a series of storms has ever occurred since the climate stabilized after the last glaciation ended some 8000 years ago, this is truly uncharted territory.
The featured image above serves as a very apt and stark metaphor for just what adaption to climate change means. That picture was taken at least ten days ago (I found it here where many other dramatic images can be…
illconsidered | February 18, 2014This 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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Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
February 16, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, London Declaration, AAAS, England, Energiewende
Bottom Line, Thermodynamics, Cr*p Detector, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Abrupt CC, Extreme Weather, New Weather
GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Aerosols, Volcanoes, Temperatures,…
illconsidered | February 13, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 78
Table of Contents
Chapter 80
Chapter 79
The Military Industrial Prison Complex, November 14, 2055
What do you do when your brother is locked up for an unconscionable crime and you have good reason to believe he is guilty? You see that he has a good lawyer. I spoke to a friend in the law faculty and got the number of a lawyer in Ottawa who came highly recommended.
Then I tried to contact Jon. The Ottawa police were unhelpful. They didn't have him, they didn't want him and they didn't know where he was. The ecocops, or more properly the Gendarmes…
gregladen | February 13, 2014Links to sites/commentary/lists for extreme weather events.
Articles or blog posts listing events
Top 10 Global Weather Events of 2011
2012 Extreme Weather Sets Records, Fits Climate Change Forecasts
2012 Infographic on severe weather events
Heat, Flood, Cold in 2012
Weather extremes: freak conditions from around the globe for 2013
2013’s Most Terrifying Weather Disasters
2013 NOAA report on Billion Dollar Disasters (overview) and the report as a PDF file is here
Timelines, official lists, maps, etc.
State of the Climate: Extreme Events
Severe weather information centre
NOAA list of daily…
illconsidered | February 11, 2014This 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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Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
February 9, 2014
Chuckles, C40, NSA, MPAs, Warnings, Fish, Energiewende
Bottom Line, Subsidies, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Greenland, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Prices, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Abrupt CC, New Weather
GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Milankovitch Cycles, Aerosols, Volcanoes, ENSO…
pgleick | February 5, 2014
It is time to recognize the serious California drought for what it is: a bellwether of things to come; a harbinger of even more serious challenges to California water resources allocation, management, and use.
The drought could end next month. It could go on for more years. But it will not be the last drought and it is vital that we take the opportunity -- amidst the serious problems farmers, cities, and the environment all face -- to rethink those aspects of California water policy created in the 1900s and 2000s that no longer make sense in the 21st century.
We must also consider this…
illconsidered | February 4, 2014Some remarkable weather in North America recently as most of you probably know. Check out Jeff Masters for some of the details.
Record warmth and precipitation in AlaskaAs of January 26, 13.83" of precipitation had fallen in Valdez during the month of January. This is more than 8" above average for this point in the month, and close to the all-time record for January precipitation of 15.18", set in 2001 (records go back to 1972.) With more rain on the way Monday and Tuesday, this record could easily fall. Numerous locations in Southeast Alaska have beaten their rainiest January day on record…
illconsidered | February 3, 2014This 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 is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
February 2, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, NSA at Copenhagen, Triumvirate, Potash, Warnings
Seeger, Energiewende, Bottom Line, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies, Related Papers
Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Abrupt CC,…