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illconsidered | October 31, 2013The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 63
Table of Contents
Chapter 65
Chapter 64
The Eclipse Machine, September 7, 2058
I woke up early from a bad dream. My father was talking about the animals of the north that were disappearing --- caribou, muskox and bears. Then I was a bearman breaking into a shack. Some guy was shooting at me. I woke up with a start, when a bullet hit me in the shoulder.
I lay in bed totally still --- listening. The house was quiet. The clock read 5:13 and there was no way I was going back to sleep. With a sigh I rolled out of bed and into the washroom.
It's…
illconsidered | October 29, 2013This 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 Overload is Pattern Recognition
October 27, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, Bangkok, Post-AR5, Maldives, Potash, Energiewende
Bottom Line, Pricing Nature, Cook, Shrinkology
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies, Related Papers
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs, Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather
GHGs…
illconsidered | October 23, 2013The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 62
Table of Contents
Chapter 64
The Atlas, August 16, 2058
When I got home today, the Electronic Atlas was sitting on the kitchen table. The Atlas was one of six prototype devices for a project a business buddy of Matt's had abandoned. It was a thin display surface half a meter square in the centre of which was a slowly rotating image of the Earth.
If you touched any part of the planet, it would get larger. You could flip through different views: topographical, political, meteorological, agricultural and so on. More detailed statistics on…
illconsidered | October 21, 2013This 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...October 20, 2013 Chuckles, COP19+, Alternatives, Post-AR5, ODI, Maldives, Governance Energiewende, Bottom Line, GFIs, Pricing Nature, CookFukushima: Note, News Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, AntarcticaFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production Hurricanes, Notable Weather, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Aerosols, Weather Machine Sensitivity, Clouds, Ozone…
illconsidered | October 16, 2013The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 61
Table of Contents
Chapter 63
Chapter 62
Baumgarten, July 2, 2058
I got another late night call from Rhamaposa. He looked terrible --- shaken and drawn out.
"What happened to you?" I asked.
"I did a tour across the Sahel." He shook his head and shuddered.
"Oh."
He grimaced. "Starving cattle. Dead children. What a time to be in a dry country!"
"Where are you now?"
"Djibouti."
I looked at him in surprise. I wasn't aware that UNGETF had any official contact with the Caliphate.
"The Arab Democratic Union asked me to update them on our projects…
illconsidered | October 14, 2013This 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 As we enter a new Age of ConsequencesOctober 13, 2013 Chuckles, COP19+, GCF, Greenhouse 2013, Africa Climate, Post-AR5, Mora Potash, Maldives GFIs, CookFukushima: Note, News, Related Papers Melting Arctic, Walrus, Methane, Geopolitics, AntarcticaFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather, Abrupt CC, Carbon Cycle, Cosmic Rays Weather Machine,…
illconsidered | October 10, 2013This 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
October 6, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, WG1-AR5, AR5 Comments, ASEAN, IPSO, Crux, Fergus
Bottom Line, Big Banks, Thermodynamics, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies, Related Papers
Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Extreme Weather, New Weather, GHGs, Carbon Cycle,…
gregladen | October 5, 2013Over the last 48 hours or so a weather system slowly moved across the southern Dakotas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Minnesota. It was in part shaped and positioned by the jet stream, and it was so slow moving because of the unusually curved nature of the jet stream. This is very much like what happened a few weeks ago in Colorado, but with less of an effect. Nonetheless, there was a damage and injury causing tornado in Nebraska and Iowa, and nine inches of rain in Winona, where there was some very inconvenient flooding. The huge multi-foot snow storm in the Dakotas was part of this system. People…
milhayser | October 4, 2013The fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was released last week, saying that global warming is occurring without a doubt, and human activity is extremely likely to be the cause. Greg Laden shares a number of graphics from the report, summarizing "It is getting hotter. It is getting wetter, or dryer, depending on where you are. And the big ice hat our planet wears is falling off." Peter Gleick collates a number of excerpts related to water on Significant Figures, which say that there are likely more regions getting more rain than less; the frequency of…
illconsidered | October 1, 2013This 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 is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not WisdomSeptember 29, 2013 Chuckles, COP19+, IPCC - SPM, IPCC - Reactions, IPCC - Buildup UNGA CE&C, MDGs, Maldives, Potash, Energiewende Bottom Line, Subsidies, World Bank, Pricing Nature, Cook, ShrinkologyFukushima: Note, News, Policies, Related Papers Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, GeopoliticsFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Land Grabs, GMOs, Production Hurricanes,…
gregladen | October 1, 2013An interview with Michael Mann on metastable shifts in climate:
Published on Sep 24, 2013
In recognition of climate week, Thom talks with renowned climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann about the dangers of global warming. Dr. Mann in concerned we may be running out of time to rein in global temperatures.
gregladen | September 30, 2013Paul Douglas from Weather Nation (and elsewhere):
For the 5th time in 23 years, the world's leading climate scientists have released an update on the state of the climate. WeatherNation Chief Meteorologist reviews the highlights plus shares the panel's predictions for the rest of the century.
gregladen | September 29, 2013The fifth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just come out, and Greg Laden joins us this Sunday to tell us what it means. What do over 800 representatives of 85 countries have to say about the state of consensus in scientific literature? More importantly, what do we need to do about it?
Additionally, various memes denying the science of climate change have popped up again in anticipation of this report. What might you have been hearing about climate change recently, and why is it wrong?
CLICK HERE to access the podcast.
gregladen | September 27, 2013Each of these graphs from the IPCC policy summary shows the global surface temperature relative to a 1961-1990 arbitrary baseline. The upper graph shows the annual average, and thus captures a sense of variation reflecting a wide range of causes, but with a general trend from the early 20th century to the preset of increasing temperatures. The second graph shows the same data but using a decadal average. Notice that when you squint your eyes, turn your head sideways, and take some LSD you can see a highly significant decline, hiatus, pause, or even cooling in global temperatures that, if…
gregladen | September 27, 2013Eight hundred and thirty or more authors and editors representing eighty five countries wrote this thing. It is about climate change, and reflects pretty much all of the current (except the most most current of course) peer reviewed literature on climate change, with the intention of providing the basis for governmental policy related to this topic.
The most important conclusion of this report is that humans have caused the warming of the planet that has been observed over the last several decades. More exactly, human activity has led to both cooling and warming effects, with the net…
illconsidered | September 24, 2013This 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 Overload is Pattern Recognition
Equinox Edition
September 22, 2013
Equinox, COP19+, IPCC, HMNDP, MDG, EDF, Potash, Maldives, Energiewende
Bottom Line, Pricing Nature, Cook, Shrinkology
Fukushima: Note, News
Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Land Grabs, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, New Weather
GHGs, Aerosols, Volcanoes,…
gregladen | September 19, 2013There is a strong argument to be made that the recent flooding in Colorado is the result of global warming. Here are three things one could say about the flooding. Think of these as alternative hypotheses to explain that event:
1) Weather has extremes. Sometimes, instead of raining just a bit, it rains a hella lot and you get a big giant flood.
2) Weather has extremes etc. etc. but global warming tends to make some of the extremes more extremes, so instead of getting just a big flood, you get a big giant flood.
3) The storm that brought well over a foot of rain to one mountainous area was…
illconsidered | September 18, 2013(Featured image from http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/photo/2013-09/14/c_132720300.htm)
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. I am late because I am traveling. Normality should resume before next Monday's posting...
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Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
September 15, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, G20, XPrize, CDP, Germany, Potash
Bottom Line, EBRD, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel,…