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illconsidered | May 16, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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
skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdomMay 15, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, Fukushima Talk, Flooding Arctic Council, SRREN, Wikileaks, UNGCF, Fossils vs Biofuels, Thermodynamics, Cook Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, Land Grabs, Food Production Hurricanes, Temperatures,…
tlambert | May 13, 2011Last year Anthony Watts said that it was a certainty that siting differences caused a warm bias:
"I can say with certainty that our findings show that there are
differences in siting that cause a difference in temperatures, not
only from a high and low type measurement but also from a trend
measurement and a trend calculation."
"The early arguments against this project said that all of these
different biases are going to cancel themselves out and there would be
cool biases as well as warm biases, but we discovered that that wasn't
the case. The vast majority of them are warm biases, and even…
illconsidered | May 9, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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
skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionMay 8, 2011 Chuckles, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, Fukushima Talk, Flooding, Timoney & Lee Attributions, Nisbet, Lenton, Bottom Line, UNGCF, Cook, Post CRU, Chambergate Melting Arctic, Frauenfelder, Methane, Geopolitics Food Crisis, Lobell, Food Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production…
illconsidered | May 2, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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
skip to bottom Another week of Climate Instability News Sipping from the Internet Firehose...May 1, 2011 -- Happy May Day! Chuckles, COP17+, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, Fukushima Talk, Chernobyl Tuscaloosa, Attribution, Nisbet, MEF, Williams, Boyce, UNGCF Bolivia, US CoC Hack, Thermodynamics, Cook, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Methane, Antarctica Food Crisis, Agro-Corps, Food Prices, Food Riots…
tlambert | April 30, 2011Bryan Walsh of Time lets us know what he thinks of Nisbet's Climate Shift with the title of his post: The Unfair Reception of the Climate Shift Report Shows That Greens Need to Be More Open to New Ideas. He explains why he thinks the reception is unfair in an aside:
So, just to get this straight, a journalism watchdog is applauding a blogger for trying to preemptively keep reporters from reading and writing about a forthcoming report, apparently because we're not smart enough to figure out what might be true or not on our own?
Apparently. Look at Walsh's summary of one of Nisbet's key…
tlambert | April 28, 2011Peter Sinclair's latest video is on the many mispresentations of "hide the decline".
hrynyshyn | April 28, 2011What if we could avoid hundreds of thousand of deaths, billions of dollars in crop losses and trillions of dollars in healthcare expenditures simply by spreading off-the-shelf technology and industrialized-world regulations to developing nations? Oh, and along the way, we'd mitigate a fair bit of global warming. Sounds like a plan?
I'd say such a plan would be worth considering. Such a plan is outlined by a team led by NASA's Drew Shindell in Nature Climate Change, which has generously made their paper, "Climate, health, agricultural and economic impacts of tighter vehicle-emission standards…
tlambert | April 26, 2011Cardinal "I spend a lot of time studying this stuff." Pell has also said that greenhouse mitigation is a pagan ritual:
Some of the hysteric and extreme claims about global warming are also a symptom of pagan emptiness, of Western fear when confronted by the immense and basically uncontrollable forces of nature. ... In the past pagans sacrificed animals and even humans in vain attempts to placate capricious and cruel gods. Today they demand a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.
HG Nelson and Amanda Keller comment on Pell and pagan rituals:
illconsidered | April 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 YearsApril 24, 2011 Chuckles, COP17+, Fukushima Heroes, F. News, Nuclear Policy, F. Talk Chernobyl & TMI, Power Shift, Earth Day, Nisbet, Kang GFIs, Bolivia, Thermodynamics, EWS, Cook, Post CRU Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Eroding Coasts, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food…
illconsidered | April 18, 2011How much wrongness can you pack into one short paragraph? This is from Rep. SHEILA BUTT (R-Columbia) in Tennessee, spoken in favor of a bill to "teach the controversy" in science class:
At the risk of drawing this out, which I hate to do, but I do know, as Rep. Dunn has mentioned, that I was taught things in science class in high school which have turned out not to be true. I remember so many of us when we were seniors in high school, we gave up AquaNet hairspray. You remember why we did that? Because it was causing global warming! That aerosol in those cans was causing global warming. Since…
illconsidered | April 18, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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
skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdom{Note: I have been offline due to illness. Coverage is spottier than usual, particularly early in the week. -het}April 17, 2011 Chuckles, Bangkok, COP17+, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, Fukushima Talk Cochabamba+1, Power Shift, Howarth, UNGCF, Psych, Cook, FOIA Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Methane…
illconsidered | April 11, 2011 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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
skip to bottom Another week of Climate Disruption News Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionApril 10, 2011 Chuckles, Bangkok, COP17+, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, Fukushima Talk, IRENA, Goals, BEST Carbon Tariffs, Subsidies, GFIs, McKinsey, Psych, Thermodynamics, Open Science, Cook, MDGs Melting Arctic, Fresh Water Pool, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel…
hrynyshyn | April 8, 2011Tennessee's House passed this disingenuous piece of legislation the other day. They're not to the first to try this sort of thing and they probably won't be the last.
HB0368
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HOUSE BILL 368
By Dunn
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49,
Chapter 6, Part 10, relative to teaching scientific
subjects in elementary schools.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10, is amended by
adding the following as a new, appropriately designated section:
(a) The general assembly finds that:
(1)…
tlambert | April 7, 2011Via Deep Climate, John Mashey's seminar on "The Machinery of Climate Anti-Science" is being streamed live here. It starts two hours from now, 7:30 PDT.
The battle of truth versus disinformation is nowhere better demonstrated than in the distortion of climate science. More than 97 percent of practicing climate scientists support the fact that global warming is happening and caused by humans, yet the public often thinks that scientists are seriously divided on this issue.
In this special public lecture, Silicon Valley computer scientist and technology expert Dr. John Mashey will expose the…
illconsidered | April 4, 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...April 3, 2011 Chuckles, Fukushima Heroes, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy, Fukushima Talk BEST, Thermodynamics, Cook, Earth Hour Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, IPY, Antarctica Food Crisis, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, Ecological Services, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, Feedbacks,…
mikethemadbiologist | April 3, 2011A while ago, I raised the problem--an inconvenient truth, if you will--that moving to a renewable energy future is going to be difficult:
My impression reading a lot of commentary about renewable energy is that there's this fantasy that we just have to build a bunch of windmills, install some solar panels, buy a Prius, and replace our windows and all will be well. But the brutal reality is that we need to urbanize our suburbs. We need to discourage detached housing. We need to massively fund local mass transit--not just SUPERTRAINS. We can't have people firing up their own personal combustion…
tlambert | April 2, 2011The recent blunders of Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop have helped draw attention to the coalition's own policy, which to achieve exactly the same reduction in emissions as Labor via "direct action".
Greg Hunt, Opposition spokesman on climate action and environment explained how they are going to do it with soil carbon sequestration:
"We are talking about a land mass, if you are achieving the 150 million tonnes [of CO2 per annum], of an area of roughly 100 square kilometres. Not tens of thousands, but 100 square kilometres of intensive agriculture would make an extraordinary achievement on many…
tlambert | April 1, 2011There are two climate related rallies in Sydney tomorrow. The rally for climate inaction (What do we want? Inaction! When do want it? Now!) has been heavily promoted on talkback radio and the facebook page has 709 people saying they are attending, while the rally for climate action has relied on new media and the facebook page has 2,765 saying they are attending.
I can't attend either one, I'm helping run a round in the Australia and New Zealand Algorithmics & Computing League.
tlambert | March 29, 2011Tony Abbott seems to have answered Julia Gillard's question of whether you should get your climate science from reputable climate scientists or Andrew Bolt by going for Andrew Bolt.
Bolt interviwed Tim Flannery who said
"If the world as a whole cut all emissions tomorrow, the average temperature of the planet's not going to drop for several hundred years, perhaps over 1000 years."
Bolt argued that this was admission that cutting emissions was useless.
Abbott then seized on the comment by Tim Flannery and claimed that Flannery had admitted that
"It will not make a difference for 1000 years…