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illconsidered | June 9, 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
June 8, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, Globe, Singapore, EPA Rule, EPA Reaction, Abnormal Autumn
Energiewende Bottom Line, Carbon Tariffs, Crap Detector, EcoCrime, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies, Related Papers
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable…
gregladen | June 7, 2014Given recent attention to the issue of consensus in climate change research, this is a good time to mention a paper that came out recently by John Abraham, John Cook, John Fasullo, Peter Jacobs, Scott Mandia and Dana Nuccitelli called "Review of the consensus and asymmetric quality of research on human-induced climate change."
I'll paste the abstract below but first I'll summarize it in a sentence. The few papers that explicitly deny the basic science of climate change are rightfully rejected by the peer review process because they are crap. Bit they do find more attention by main stream…
gregladen | June 7, 2014Above is a graphic someone tossed at me on twitter the other day. It makes it look like CO2 emissions went way up then went way down so everything is fine. It is, of course, a lie, of sorts.
IT is actually kind of hard to find a graph just for US CO2 that goes back in historic time, but this graphic for the global energy industry clearly shows that the big picture is an upward trend:
The dip we see in recent years is simply an effect of the economy going bad, and things people do that emit CO2 being done somewhat less. Kevin Schultz wrote this up on his blog:
After a five-year decrease in…
gregladen | June 7, 2014Just a quick item on the pause in global warming that is said to have happened over the last X number of years. I took NOAA's instrumental record since the late 19th century and calculated the average deviation for "surface" temperatures from a baseline for the entire period. Surface temperatures refer to the lower part of the atmosphere and sea surfaces. When you look at a graph of "global warming" expressed in temperatures, this is almost always what is meant (this leaves out a lot of things, including the poles, much of Africa, and deeper ocean waters). But it is a standard and a fairly…
illconsidered | June 6, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 94
Table of Contents
Chapter 96
Chapter 95
Four Mouths, October 4, 2060
Having a baby in the house again was not at all the same as with Anna. This time I was not a curious bystander. I had duties. We took turns getting up at night, but sometimes I was slap-happy from lack of sleep,
With Andrew taking so much of our attention, Anna's birthday was in danger of passing without making a ripple, so both Edie and I went out of our way to celebrate her day. Anna invited some friends from summer school. We had cake and ice cream and a crying baby. I…
gregladen | June 5, 2014This post has gone out of date. Go HERE to see a current list of excellent books on climate change.
gregladen | June 4, 2014Independent videographer Peter Sinclair's 'This is Not Cool' video explores recent headline-grabbing research on Antarctic glacial melting, the first video produced under the name Yale Climate Connections, formerly The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media.
illconsidered | June 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
skip to bottom Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionJune 1, 2014 Chuckles, COP20+, Post WGx, Kohout, Weber, Warnings, Energiewende Bottom Line, Subsidies, Pricing Nature, Economics, CookFukushima: Note, News, Policies Melting Arctic, AntarcticaFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, GMOs, Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Aerosols, Volcanoes, ENSO, Temperatures, Satellites Oceans,…
illconsidered | May 29, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 93
Table of Contents
Chapter 95
Chapter 94
Andrew, September 21, 2060
Edie woke me from a deep sleep.
"Luc. It's time."
It was 2:45 in the morning.
We had planned for several possibilities. I called a cab, then I called our next door neighbour, Bessie Waters, to watch over Anna.
We were just getting in the cab when Bessie came around the corner of the house. She stood by the foot of the back stairs and waved goodbye as the cab pulled out.
"Did you leave the back door open?" asked Edie.
"She has a key."
Until this point, I had been going…
gregladen | May 27, 2014Excessive warmth attributable to global warming and a stalled weather system, also attributable to global warming, have caused a weather system in over southeast China to dump rain since May 12th. A million people are in the impacted area, ahlf of them have had to move or have been rescued, and the 2-6 inches of daily rain continues. 25,000 homes have been destroyed.
This area has recieved huge investments over the last few decades, since a huge 1998 storm killed thousands and caused 26 billion dollars in damage. They now fear that the present flooding will be as bad.
Here's some video (…
illconsidered | May 26, 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
skip to bottom Sipping from the Internet Firehose...May 25, 2014 Chuckles, COP20+, Post WGx, WAIS, NCA, Insurance suit, Warnings, Energiewende Bottom Line, Subsidies, Economics, CookFukushima: Note, News, Policies, Related Papers Melting Arctic, Morlighem, GeopoliticsFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Agro-Corps, GMOs, Production Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, New Weather GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Nitrogen Cycle, Volcanoes,…
illconsidered | May 23, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 92
Table of Contents
Chapter 94
Chapter 93
A New Disaster, September 18, 2060
I was feeling overwhelmed. It seemed like everything was happening at once. Edie was overdue. I was scrambling to revise my letter about EF1 and the UV effect. Group 12 was starting their Greenland project. They were going to try to stabilize what remained of the Greenland icesheet before expanding their scope and I wanted to monitor their progress. A major fire in the boreal forest north of Great Slave was burning uncontrollably and the smoke was noticeable all over…
illconsidered | May 20, 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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Confronting a New Age of Consequences
May 18, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, WAIS, CEM, NCA, Galapagos, Azorella
Energiewende, Bottom Line, Subsidies, Economics, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Extreme Weather, New Weather, GHGs, Aerosols
Weather Machine, Climate Sensitivity, ENSO, Temperatures, Proxies,…
gregladen | May 20, 2014A few days ago I noted that April 2014 was one of the warmest Aprils on record. This morning, NOAA has released its data showing that April was actually a bit warmer than I had suggested.
NOAA has already stated that "The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces was the fourth highest for March on record, at 0.71°C (1.28°F) above the 20th century average of 12.3°C (54.1°F)" and "The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for the January–March period (year-to-date) was 0.60°C (1.08°F) above the 20th century average of 12.3°C (54.1°F), the seventh…
pgleick | May 20, 2014I previously posted a summary of the water-related conclusions from the new National Climate Assessment, recently released after three years of writing, review, and analysis. The following “findings” are a broader summary of the results from the newly released National Climate Assessment (NCA). They are by no means a full summary: far more detail can be found in the chapters and the regional syntheses, but these are noteworthy conclusions. (Note, thanks to Tim Smith – Sustainable Water Resources Coordinator – for highlighting these. The page numbers refer to the NCA Summary)
1. Global climate…
gregladen | May 17, 2014We saw it coming, the denialists denied, they were wrong, this is all pretty bad.
illconsidered | May 14, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 91
Table of Contents
Chapter 93
Chapter 92
Ultraviolet, September 4, 2060
I came back from the Arctic to more news of meaningless deaths. While isolated in the North, it is easy to forget the numbing effect the constant drumbeat of tragedy has on a person. It catches me every time. A dike had burst in London and a major fire in the American west both claimed lives. The hurricane season was particularly bad. Australia, Japan and Florida got battered. Several thousand people died. It was an unending litany of suffering.
What my father had…
illconsidered | May 14, 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
May 11, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, Abu Dhabi, WGx, NCA, Myers, Mengel & Levermann, Landslide
Energiewende, Bottom Line, Subsidies, Economics, Cook, Meteorologists
Fukushima: Note, News
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather, Forecasts, Extreme Weather
GHGs,…
gregladen | May 14, 2014The Dark Snow Project is staring up again, it being almost summer(ish) in Greenland.
The results in the study of the odd 2012 winter are now in. That year, there was a huge spike in melting on the surface of Greenland. (Discussed here.) One idea is that a good part of this melting was caused by extra soot from extensive wildfires in North America, which increased the amount of solar energy collected on the ice surface.
The results confirm this, and the Dark Snow team is returning this year to collect more information.
Here's a video giving an overview of the project, from Peter Sinclair'…