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illconsidered | February 20, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 79
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Chapter 81
Chapter 80
Makeba, November 14, 2055
Aretha,
I would like to call your attention to an SRM device of which I have recently been apprised.
The rough theory is in the UNGETF database, keyword Sunbugs. An implementation is to be found in the FabNet archives, same keyword. It requires a Fraunhoeffer chemical synthesizer to which I do not have access, but I believe you do.
It might be a viable replacement for the sunshield.
Trust you are well.
cordially,
Luc Fontaine
Excerpted from _The Bottleneck Years_ by H.E. Taylor
For…
illconsidered | February 18, 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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Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
February 16, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, London Declaration, AAAS, England, Energiewende
Bottom Line, Thermodynamics, Cr*p Detector, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
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illconsidered | February 13, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 78
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Chapter 80
Chapter 79
The Military Industrial Prison Complex, November 14, 2055
What do you do when your brother is locked up for an unconscionable crime and you have good reason to believe he is guilty? You see that he has a good lawyer. I spoke to a friend in the law faculty and got the number of a lawyer in Ottawa who came highly recommended.
Then I tried to contact Jon. The Ottawa police were unhelpful. They didn't have him, they didn't want him and they didn't know where he was. The ecocops, or more properly the Gendarmes…
illconsidered | February 11, 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
February 9, 2014
Chuckles, C40, NSA, MPAs, Warnings, Fish, Energiewende
Bottom Line, Subsidies, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Greenland, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Prices, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Abrupt CC, New Weather
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illconsidered | February 5, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 77
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Chapter 79
Chapter 78
EcoCops, November 13, 2059
The next day the ecocops arrived. Edie and I were having breakfast, when they pulled up in the lane right below our window. Anna, as she liked to say, was "doing lady things" in the bathroom. There were three of them. They were polite. They apologized to Edie, but they wanted to talk to me -- alone.
For the interview they took me downtown to the MacDonald building. We entered through an underground parking lot I hadn't even known existed. They took me up to a seventh floor office…
illconsidered | February 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
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Another Week in the Ecological Crisis
Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
February 2, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, NSA at Copenhagen, Triumvirate, Potash, Warnings
Seeger, Energiewende, Bottom Line, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies, Related Papers
Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
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illconsidered | February 1, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 76
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Chapter 78
Chapter 77
Unburdening, November 12, 2059
I was in a state by the time I arrived at Centre City. I half expected the eco-cops to tap me on the shoulder at any moment.
Edie met me at the door. "I didn't expect you until tomorrow," she said with a big smile. "I just happened to see you walk past the front window."
Then she caught my mood. "What's the matter?"
"Do you know how to upload to FabNet?"
"Yeah... I used to do that for Matt every once in a while."
"Good. I have something I want you to distribute." I opened the…
illconsidered | January 30, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 75
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Chapter 77
Chapter 76
A Better World, November 12, 2059
We settled in the back of a small electric cab. The driver slid open a slot in the plasteel barrier partitioning the passenger area. Peter gave him the UN offices as a destination and then turned to me.
"Right then. Why don't you tell me all about it?"
"Have you looked at the sunbug proposal?"
"Yeah, I glanced at it. It's too bad it's only theoretical."
"I have a practical implementation."
"What! Are you sure?"
"I didn't do the work. My brother Matt did. But here's the…
illconsidered | January 27, 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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Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
January 26, 2014
Chuckles, EU Climate Goals, WEF, WFES, POGO, Potash, Smog, Energiewende
Bottom Line, Subsidies, Cook, Shrinkology
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Tele-connections, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
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GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Solar,…
illconsidered | January 22, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 74
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Chapter 76
Chapter 75
Ottawa, November 7, 2059
Over the next month I watched and waited from my vantage point in UNGETF for some Solar Radiation Management [SRM] scheme to take the place of the sunshield. None was forthcoming. There was talk about restarting the Japanese Group 2 effort, even funding Baumgarten, but there was also opposition. The long and short of it was... no other SRM technique was forthcoming.
Finally I felt compelled to act. I was still worried about the unknown actors involved in Matt's death, so I decided…
illconsidered | January 20, 2014Featured image is one of 19 illustrated haiku laying out the IPCC Summary for Policy Makers, see them all here.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
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January 19, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, WG3 Leak, BP EO, Matthews, Risky Biz, Vortices
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illconsidered | January 16, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 73
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Chapter 75
Chapter 74
Waiting, September 18, 2059
I went back to the university and sat in my office. Luckily I didn't have any more classes that day. I tried to work, but it was no use. I ended up scanning half a dozen news channels looking for information about the sunshield and the rockets.
Finally I felt so useless, I headed back home. That meant I was offline for 35 or 40 minutes while I walked. I could have monitored the net with my padd, but I have always tried to pay attention to the real world around me: Be here now and…
illconsidered | January 14, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 72
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Chapter 73
Sabotage, September 15, 2059
Anna was coming up on her fourth birthday when the rumblings of discontent from the Asian Union began to get louder. A mid-August snow in Japan had laid waste much of their fall crop. China was complaining about a loss of solar photovoltaic power.
Shortly after the Japanese snowstorm, Carillon admitted that there were some kinks in the system that needed to be worked out. The idea had been to keep the sunshields shading the northern hemisphere and have them switch dynamically…
illconsidered | January 13, 2014Featured image is one of 19 illustrated haiku laying out the IPCC Summary for Policy Makers, see them all here.
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Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
January 12, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, Polar Vortex, Brulle , Sherwood, Negative Prices
Energiewende, Global Legal Framework, Cook, Shrinkology
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illconsidered | January 10, 2014The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 71
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Chapter 73
Chapter 72
No Miracles, April 30, 2059
All that winter and spring, the sunshield count slowly increased. We passed 3,000, but nothing changed on Earth. Methane levels were still rising. Drought, flood and fire were constant. Grain reserves were less than a week, and some challenged those statistics, claiming they were just to make us feel good.
The demand went out for more sunshields. Brahmaputra got more money. That meant more factories and railguns to be built on the moon. Some 150 people in Hipparcus were running…
illconsidered | January 8, 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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Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
January 5, 2014
Chuckles, COP20+, COP19, Sherwood, Post-2013, Pre-2014
Bottom Line, Global Legal Framework, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs, Production
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illconsidered | December 31, 2013Happy New Year!!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
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Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
December 29, 2013
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illconsidered | December 23, 2013This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundupskip to bottom Sipping from the Internet Firehose...Solstice EditionDecember 22, 2013 Chuckles, Solstice, COP19, AR5, WTO, Retrospectives, Accountability Coal, Energiewende, Bottom Line, Subsidies, Big Banks, Pricing Nature, CookFukushima: Note, News Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, AntarcticaFood: Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Abrupt CC, Extreme Weather, New Weather GHGs, Carbon…
illconsidered | December 19, 2013The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 70
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Decision Point, February 23, 2059
At UNGETF things were getting worse. Our Earthside measures were not working. Methane and carbon dioxide levels were still rising. There were a lot of grim faces around.
I put those concerns aside and turned my attention to Matt's sunbugs. Matt's multimedia files required an advanced and expensive Fraunhoeffer chemical synthesizer which the university did not have. A quick web check showed why. They cost over 5 million credits. I began to appreciate how Matt's money had…
illconsidered | December 17, 2013This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundupskip to bottom Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsDecember 15, 2013 Chuckles, COP19, AGU, WTO, Energiewende Bottom Line, Big Banks, Cook, ShrinkologyFukushima: Note, News Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Arctic Report Card, Methane, Geopolitics, AntarcticaFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Forecasts, New Weather GHGs, Climate Sensitivity, Clouds, Ozone, ENSO,…