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illconsidered | January 1, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Anthropocene Antics
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
December 30, 2012
Chuckles, Seasonal, COP19+, Bromwich, Arctic Cyclone, Retrospectives
Bottom Line, Thermodynamics, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Suing TEPCO, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, Food Production
Hurricanes, Temperatures…
illconsidered | December 28, 2012The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 19
Table of Contents
Chapter 21
Chapter 20
An Awkward Homecoming, November 17, 2055
Adelle was right. I did have difficulty getting back through Customs. The time stretched on. After five hours, an iris scan and multiple DNA tests, not to mention extensive questioning by airport security, Border Control and ConSec, I was released.
Olivia was waiting for me. She was sitting in the lounge reading the news on a padd facing away from me. I walked up beside and behind her and nuzzled her neck.
She spun around and gave me a big kiss. "I thought they were…
illconsidered | December 25, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Anthropocene Antics
Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
December 23 2012
Chuckles, Bouquet, Solstice, COP19+, Post-Doha, Hargreaves, Retrospectives
AR5 Leak, Subsidies, WB, Thermodynamics, Cook, TV Meteorologists
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries,…
illconsidered | December 20, 2012The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 18
Table of Contents
Chapter 20
Chapter 19
Rio Triste, October 22, 2055
Fifteen scientists formed the Mandate group and one staff person, a terrifyingly severe Dutch woman who managed schedules and bills. She never said more than two words to me the whole time I was there. The locals were a mixture of Spanish descendants, blacks and natives in various proportions. Most of them seemed to think we were a bunch of arrogant, ignorant bastards useful only as victims. They paid attention to us only because we had money.
The ecologist literally spent all…
illconsidered | December 17, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Anthropocene Antics
Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
December 16, 2012
Chuckles, COP19+, Post-Doha, Post-AGU, AR5 Leak
1990 Projections, Detectors, Retrospectives, Subsidies, WB, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, GMOs, Food Production
Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures…
illconsidered | December 13, 2012The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 17
Table of Contents
Chapter 19
Chapter 18
Amazon, Sept. 29, 2055
Have you ever wondered what is the logic of your life? Sometimes I feel like a piece of flotsam bouncing on the waves of a river whose depth and currents I cannot fathom, whose path I do not know, whose destination, short of the ocean, is a mystery.
This feeling caught me as I contemplated Olivia. It was equally true of the happy accident that I just happened to notice the odd red-green plant years before when Doc Y and I were on a sampling tour in the B.C. interior. I got my fifteen…
illconsidered | December 10, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Anthropocene Antics
Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
December 9, 2012
Chuckles, COP19+, Doha: Results, Reactions, Process, Kyoto, Finance, Dailies, Irony
AGU, Bottom Line, Subsidies, World Bank, Cook, Weathermen
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News
Melting Arctic, Arctic Report Card, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Food vs.…
illconsidered | December 5, 2012The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 16
Table of Contents
Chapter 18
Chapter 17
Microbugs, Sept. 25, 2055
A couple of ConSec guys appeared and we climbed back into the paddywagon for the ride home. We didn't talk.
As I entered the kitchen, I was enveloped in a wave of unreality. It all seemed so fantastic. How are you supposed to feel when you are plucked out of your daily life, threatened, spun in the air, examined and then plunked back down to carry on? Olivia and I sat at the kitchen table sipping coffee.
"Can I see it?" She held her hand out. When I gave her Carman's signaller,…
illconsidered | December 3, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week in the Planetary Crisis
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
December 2, 2012
Chuckles, Doha - COP18: Misc., Irony, Kyoto, Finance, Dailies
Grafton, Bednarek, Rahmstorf, Shepherd, Subsidies, WB, Equador, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, IP…
illconsidered | November 29, 2012The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 15
Table of Contents
Chapter 17
Chapter 16
Carman, Sept. 25, 2055
Matt had been on the west coast for two months. Jon was in Ottawa with the Senator. I was happy with Olivia. Our life was never dull. Doc Y, as Jim Yablonski was affectionately known around campus, and I were collaborating on a new paper on photosynthesis. Except for dad's death, which was a shock, my life was unfolding more or less as I thought it should.
Then I met Carman.
I had got up early one Saturday morning, as I sometimes do when I'm chewing on a problem. I appreciate the…
illconsidered | November 26, 2012 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck YearsThis 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 Another Week in the Planetary Crisis Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom November 25, 2012 Chuckles, COP18+, Pre-Doha Reports: WRI, AII, EEA, UNEP, WB, PwC, IEA Bottom Line, PDSI-Sheffield, Pricing Nature, Cook Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy Melting Arctic, Methane, Antarctica Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes…
illconsidered | November 22, 2012The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 14
Table of Contents
Chapter 16
Chapter 15
The Great Work, September 7, 2055
In the top centre drawer of the big desk in dad's library, I found an unmarked envelope containing this document.
The Great Work, March 2040
My time is getting short and I don't know what more I can do. I am getting old and I don't have time for bullshit. I don't want for anything. There is no profit -- economic, moral or spiritual -- in recording my thoughts, yet I persist. I have raised the boys as best I could since Joan died. They are good, strong lads. I only wish I…
illconsidered | November 19, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week in the Planetary Crisis
Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
November 18, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, IEA-WEO, Post Sandy, Sheffield, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Walrus, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food Production
Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Aerosols,…
illconsidered | November 14, 2012The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 13
Table of Contents
Chapter 15
Chapter 14
The Clone Document, September 7, 2055
I was in the University library when a short innocuous looking fellow approached my carousel.
"Are you Luc Pascal Fontaine, son of the late Robert Fontaine?"
I looked at him warily, curious what he was about. "Yes."
"I have a package for you." He lifted his briefcase, putting it on top of my books and papers. "I need a signature."
"Fine," I said.
He snapped open his case, removing a clipboard and a heavy manila envelope. "If I can just get you to sign for receipt, here…
illconsidered | November 12, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week in the Planetary Crisis
Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
November 11, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, Post Sandy, Athena, PwC, Extremes, Ice Ages, World Bank, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon…
illconsidered | November 7, 2012The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 12
Table of Contents
Chapter 14
Chapter 13
Olivia, August 30, 2055
All of a sudden I had a whole lot of woman on my hands. It was a whole new ballgame. Olivia was smart, sexy and a lot of fun. I stayed at her suite the first night and the next we spent at mine.
Matt and Jon just laughed when I explained why I had stood them up. Jon went back to Ottawa. The Senate was not in session, but the Senator had research and PR jobs lined up to keep him busy for a month. A week later, Matt came around to say goodbye. He was heading to the coast.
"I'm glad to…
illconsidered | November 6, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week in the Ecological Crisis
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
November 4, 2012
Chuckles, CCAMLR, Maldives, Subsidies, Cook
Sandy: General, Impacts, Caribbean, Nukes, Attribution, Politics, Recovery
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics
Food Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food Production…
illconsidered | November 1, 2012The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 11
Table of Contents
Chapter 13
Chapter 12
The Reception, July 23, 2055
Mom and Dad's old friends, university people, and a gaggle of 32nd cousins chattered and whispered at tables throughout the reception hall. Matt and Jon had disappeared. I was doing my best to represent the family. Everybody wanted to express their condolences in person. It was long and drawn out. People I hadn't seen for years kept coming up to me to commiserate and chat.
All at once Jon was standing behind me. "It is decided," he said.
"What's that?"
"Matt's going to sell me…
illconsidered | October 29, 2012Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week in the Ecological Crisis
Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
October 28, 2012
Chuckles, COP18+, TWotW, Gas Flaring, Thomas, CBD, OIF, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food Production
Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle,…
illconsidered | October 24, 2012The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 10
Table of Contents
Chapter 12
Chapter 11
The Funeral, July 23, 2055
I don't remember my mother. We had recordings of her singing, that is all. She died when we were young and dad never remarried. He raised us alone. He was a grumpy old ecologist with three rambunctious boys. All of his friends were doctors or professors. It made for a strange and daunting home environment. As soon as we were old enough, he began dragging us up north on his scientific expeditions.
Dad was a hard sonofabitch. His father had died when he was young and he had to fight…