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gregladen | March 23, 2013It is important to get this right. There is something interesting happening in the Arctic right now, and some people are pointing to it and jumping up and down and yelling about how it is a major climate change event. But it may very well not be. Or it could be. The thing that is happening is something that normally happens, but there are features of the event that are odd. We won't know its significance until the Northern Summer, and even then we won't be sure if this is just an unusual thing for this year or a new trend because, by definition, trends run over periods of time.
Every year as…
gregladen | March 22, 2013This is a hockey stick:
This is the Grim Reaper's Scythe:
This is global temperature over the last 10,000 years projected into the immediate future using good scientific estimates:
You decide. Should the Hockey Stick be replaced with the Grim Reaper's Scythe?
More information on the climate change graphic HERE.
See more climate change graphics HERE.
If you are not sure what any of this is about, you can read about the Hockey Stick thing here.
illconsidered | March 18, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Instability News
Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
March 17, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, CITES, JOGMEC, Marcott
Bottom Line, Subsidies, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Anniversary, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, GMOs, Food Production
Hurricanes,…
gregladen | March 15, 2013From Bloomberg
President Barack Obama is preparing to tell all federal agencies for the first time that they have to consider the impact on global warming before approving major projects, from pipelines to highways.
The result could be significant delays for natural gas- export facilities, ports for coal sales to Asia, and even new forest roads, industry lobbyists warn.
“It’s got us very freaked out,” said Ross Eisenberg, vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers, a Washington-based group that represents 11,000 companies such as Exxon-Mobil Corp. (XOM) and Southern Co. (SO…
illconsidered | March 11, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Instability News
Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
March 10, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, CITES, Angry Summer, Marcott, DLST, Maldives
Bottom Line, Subsidies, Cook, Meteorologists
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, Land…
pgleick | March 7, 2013Sometime, about one year from now, the front pages of whatever decent newspapers are left will carry a headline like the one above, announcing that for the first time in human existence (or in nearly a million years, or 3 million years, or 15 million years), the global atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide – the principal gas causing climate change – will have passed 400 parts per million.
That’s a significant and shocking figure. Unfortunately, it is only a temporary marker on the way to even higher and higher levels. Here (Figure 1 below) are the most recent (March 2013) data from the…
illconsidered | March 4, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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March 3, 2013
Chuckles, Sensawunda, COP19+, CITES, Petoukhov, Vaks
Bottom Line, Subsidies, Thermodynamics, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production
Hurricanes, Notable…
illconsidered | February 25, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Disruption News
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
February 24, 2013
Chuckles, JODTAA, COP19+, Bowman vs. Monsanto, Vaks, Warnings, Maldives, Tesla
Bottom Line, Subsidies, WB, Pricing Nature, Thermodynamics, Cook, Meteorologists
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Geopolitics
Food Crisis, Fisheries, SRI,…
lborkowski | February 25, 2013The two-year anniversary of OSHA's proposed silica rule being stuck at the White House Office of Management & Budget (which Celeste wrote about here) attracted some media attention. NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce did an in-depth story on the hazards of airborne silica exposure, which increases the risk of lung cancer and the lung disease silicosis, and the lengthy White House inaction on OSHA's proposal. Her piece includes a story from one worker who saw the damage of silica exposure firsthand:
Tom Ward, a 44-year-old mason who lives and works in Michigan, knows just how bad silicosis is.…
gregladen | February 24, 2013Is there a problem with John Abraham’s argument about Obama’s Legacy?
John Abraham wrote a piece in the Guardian titled Keystone XL decision will define Barack Obama’s legacy on climate change: Does the president have courage to say ‘no’ to a project that will lock us into decades of dependency on this dirty energy? in which he states:
Alberta has 1.8 [trillion] barrels of oil contained within the tar sands. Extracting and burning all of that tar will cause a global temperature increase of about 0.4 degrees C (0.7 degrees F). That is about half of the warming that humans have already caused…
gregladen | February 20, 2013This is being discussed here, thought I'd show you this:
Use of the terms "Global Warming" vs. "Climate Change" in books
illconsidered | February 18, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Disruption News
Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
February 17, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, Tesla, Maldives, Warnings, GreenPeace, Gleick
Bottom Line, Subsidies, Thermodynamics, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Land Grabs, IP Issues, GMOs, Food…
gregladen | February 18, 2013On February 17th, some 40,000 people showed up at an event in Washington DC in order to draw attention to the most pressing issue of our time: Climate Change. Another group of people also attended that rally. They represented the Climate Science Denialists, which in the US overlaps considerably with the Tea Party. They wore yellow jackets and called themselves "The Light Brigade." This follows the tradition of the Tea Party, who in their early days used the nickname "Teabaggers" for themselves, a term which refers to a particular sexual act, or so I'm told. I was reminded of this because…
illconsidered | February 12, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
February 10, 2013
Chuckles, Survival, Lai Pei-yuan, Nickel, Transition, Uranium, Belief
Bottom Line, Subsidies, GFIs, Thermodynamics, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Food vs.…
gregladen | February 6, 2013Minnesota has two populations of moose, one in the northwestern part of the state, one in the northeastern part of the state. Both are in decline. The decline seems to be mainly due to disease, which in turn, seems to be exacerbated by the occurrence of shorter, warmer winters and longer summers.
Today, the Minnesota DNR is announcing an indefinite halt to the annual moose hunt, because the latest surveys show that the population is in very serious decline. From a brief preliminary report in the Star Tribune:
Based on the aerial survey conducted in January, the new population estimate is…
gregladen | February 6, 2013According to some estimates, if sea levels rose one meter, Boston would lose 3% of it’s land surface, Washington DC a mere 1%. Tampa and Miami would lose 18% and 15% respectively. New Orleans would lose 91%.
A six meter rise would result in much larger losses. Norfolk, Virginia and Miami Florida would be essentially gone.
These estimates use the assumption that the sea level rises in those areas vertically, and the corresponding topographical level in the coastal city becomes the shoreline. They don’t account for the fact that the ocean does not work that way. (see Sea Level Rise…Extreme…
illconsidered | February 4, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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February 3, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, Clean Air, Australian Floods, Tyee, Nigeria & Shell, Oh Oh Squad
MDGs, GW & Rain, Bottom Line, IMF, Thermodynamics, Crap Detection, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries,…
gregladen | January 30, 2013I'm not sure about the NUMBER of fires. That might be hard to count. If five small fires emerge and are put out, there are five fires. If five fires emerge, join into one configuration, and wipe out a handful of mountain villages in the Rockies, that's one fire. It might be better to look at acreage burned per year.
My friend John Abraham has used the data supplied by National Interagency Fire Center to make a graph of acreage burned per year since 1960. The graph is a 10-year running mean of millions of acres burned in the US.
Here is the graph:
The annual rate of acreage burned in…
illconsidered | January 30, 2013(sorry to be so late this week, it was Australia Day weekend and I guess it threw off my rhythm!)
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
January 27, 2013
Minamata, NEEM, Australia, GreenPeace, Tyee, EEA, Oh Oh Squad
Bottom Line, Subsidies, WB, Pricing Nature, Thermodynamics, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News
Melting Arctic, Methane,…
gregladen | January 27, 2013Published on Jan 25, 2013
Session 6: Dr. Jennifer Francis - Rutgers University
Topic: Wacky Weather and Disappearing Arctic Sea Ice: Are They Connected?