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illconsidered | October 3, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Sipping from the Internet Firehose...October 2, 2011 Chuckles, Horn of Africa, Overshoot, Maathai, Jet Stream, IMECHE GDP, Subsidies, Ecocide, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs, Temperatures, Feedbacks,…
illconsidered | September 27, 2011Well, it is that time of year again, the sea ice in the Arctic has reached its minimum extent.
(please note that the image above shows the August data, September's graphic is not yet available though it will look very similar)
So how's that "recovery" coming along? According to NSIDC, this year's September minimum is the second lowest in the satellite record.
Peter, over at Climate Crock of the Week, presents his latest video on that topic, a very sober and sobering placement of this year in its long term context:
Once again, the choice is between the "climate skeptics" and your lying…
illconsidered | September 26, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsSeptember 25, 2011 Chuckles, Equinox, COP17+, Horn of Africa, Pakistan Missing Heat, Easter Island, Atlasgate, Monnett, Subsidies, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Beasties, Methane, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Land Grabs, IP Issues, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs…
gregladen | September 25, 2011How do you know when alternative views are real alternatives, and thus should be considered in a "balanced view" vs. when those views are not any longer valid and should be ignored? This sounds like a hard thing to do but it is not as hard as you might think. I suggest two different approaches: "Tipping Points" and "Clues that Something is Wrong Here."
The Tipping Point approach works like this: As the percentage of qualified scientists that hold a particular view diminishes, when it reaches about 25 percent or so, the view should continue to be references but as a minority view. Many…
illconsidered | September 23, 2011Hat tip to Chris S on the last AWOGWN thread for posting the link, here is the video of David Mitchell shredding the "prove it first, then we'll stop the pollution" argument embedded below:
I have argued many times that the "let's do nothing til we're sure" people have it backwards because we are in fact doing something: altering the atmospheric chemistry. Do nothing til we're sure would entail an immediate cesation of all long-lived GHG emissions.
gregladen | September 19, 2011In order to do good climate science, you have to understand and control for the sources of variation in the system. In any system that involvs metric change over time, there are four sources of variation:
1) Measurement or observational error (goofs, inaccuracies, bad calibration). The speed was 23 feet per second but the instrument read 22.5 or the observer wrote down 32 by accident, etc.
2) Internal (secular, natural) variation. If A causes changes in B over time, variation in B that would have happened anyway don't count in understanding the A-B link.
3) Causal relationship (causal…
illconsidered | September 19, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomSeptember 18, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, Horn of Africa, Pakistan, BGS Monnett, WikiLeaks, Subsidies, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Food Prices, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Ozone,…
tlambert | September 14, 2011Astrophysicist Matthew Bailes writes in The Conversation:
Recently my colleagues and I announced the discovery of a remarkable planet orbiting a special kind of star known as a pulsar.
Based on the planet's density, and the likely history of its system, we concluded that it was certain to be crystalline. In other words, we had discovered a planet made of diamond. ...
Our host institutions were thrilled with the publicity and most of us enjoyed our 15 minutes of fame. The attention we received was 100% positive, but how different that could have been.
How so? Well, we could have been climate…
illconsidered | September 12, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionSeptember 11, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, Horn of Africa, Pakistan, Wigley, Keystone XL WikiLeaks, Dessler, Spencer, Monnett, Ecocide, How To?, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes…
illconsidered | September 10, 2011What Exxon says, through its various mouthpeices, that global warming is not happening or is happening but reversing or what have you, is apparently not what it believes.
Once seen as a useless, ice-clogged backwater, the Kara Sea now has the attention of oil companies. That is partly because the sea ice is apparently receding.
Two billion is alot of money to put where your mouth is not!
illconsidered | September 5, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the Internet Firehose...September 4, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, Horn of Africa, Keystone XL Action, The Conversation, Wagner Monnett, Kirby et al., WikiLeaks, Bottom Line, Free Science, Thermodynamics, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Methane/CO2, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food…
gregladen | September 2, 2011There has been a major dust-up in the climate denialist world. A study published in late July made false claims and was methodologically flawed, but still managed to get published in a peer reviewed journal. The Editor-in-Chief of that journal has resigned to symbolically take responsibility for the journal's egregious error of publishing what is essentially a fake scientific paper, and to "protest against how the authors [and others] have much exaggerated the paper's conclusions" taking to task the University of Alabama's press office, Forbes, Fox News and others.
Let me break it down for…
tlambert | September 1, 2011Haydn Washington author (along with John Cook) of
Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand is interviewed on Steaming Toad:
tlambert | August 29, 2011The Conversation is publishing a series of articles this week on how the media has misrepresented the science on climate change.
Selling climate uncertainty: misinformation and the media by Stephan Lewandowsky
Forget the fantasy politics - advertising is no substitute for debate by Robin Canniford
Drowning out the truth about the Great Barrier Reef by Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Democracy is dead, long live political marketing by Andrew Hughes
Event horizon: the black hole in The Australian's climate change coverage by Michael Ashley
illconsidered | August 29, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Global Warming News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsAugust 28, 2011 Chuckles, Horn of Africa, Hsiang et al., Keystone XL Action, Kirby et al. Monnett, East Coast Nukes, Shell, ConocoPhillips, Subsidies, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, Fukushima Talk Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Riots, GMOs, Food…
tlambert | August 24, 2011This is a guest post from John Mashey.
An amusing coincidence surfaced a few days ago, relating the US Presidential
campaign of Texas Governor Rick Perry to the Peter Wood kerfuffle at Chronicle
of Higher Education (CHE), including the stir in some parts of the
blogosphere.
I explain that, followed by the weird background.
0) Rick Perry and Peter Wood
1) Chronology at CHE and NAS
2) Deltoid and elsewhere
3) Climate thuggery discovered by blogosphere
4) Chronology of the thuggery wave
5) Conclusion
0) Rick Perry and Peter Wood
See Washington Post, 08/18/11 Fact-Checker:
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illconsidered | August 22, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Global Warming News Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomAugust 21, 2011 Autobahn Chuckles, COP17+, Horn of Africa, Keystone XL Protest Monnett, Chen et al., Shell Leak, Conoco Leak, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Walrus, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Agro-Corps, Food Prices, Food Riot, Food vs Fuel…
illconsidered | August 15, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionAugust 14, 2011 Autobahn Chuckles, Horn of Africa, Monnett, NEON, Nigeria, North Sea, arXiv, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Kay et al., Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, IP Issues, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs,…
tlambert | August 12, 2011In reply to my email, Murry Salby writes:
Thanks for your interest in the presentation at the Sydney Institute.
If not torrential (in some cases invidious), the expressions of interest
have at least been overpowering. Although I would like to respond individually,
the volume of inquiries makes that unfeasible.
Several requested illustrations that were displayed during the presentation.
Many of those illustrations were included in the broadcast which was
subsequently aired. Others are under publication embargo.
When that restriction is lifted, they will be made available.
Thanks again for your…