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May 23, 2013

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1:57 PM | The Bottleneck Years by H. E. Taylor – Chapter 41

The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 40 Table of Contents Chapter 42 Chapter 41 Theft and Meditation, June 27, 2056 I was between classes in mid-afternoon when Edie phoned. “Luc. There are men in the shed stealing things.” “Call the police.” “I did. There’s no answer.” “What?” “I tried to stop them, but…” “Where…

May 20, 2013

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1:41 PM | Another Week of Anthropocene Antics – May 19, 2013

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 May 19, 2013 Chuckles, COP19+, Arctic Council, Consensus, Warren 400 ppmv, Ventus Project, Red List, Bottom Line, Cook Fukushima: Note, News…

May 15, 2013

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1:58 PM | The Bottleneck Years by H. E. Taylor – Chapter 40

The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 39 Table of Contents Chapter 41 Chapter 40 Learning To Stand, June 17, 2056 The weeks ground by. The meetings, the lack of progress really grated. I wasn’t doing well in my work. The damned membrane grew, but it kept wanting to curl up in tubes and I…

May 14, 2013

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2:31 AM | Another Week of Anthropocene Antics, May 12, 2013

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 Information is not Knowledge…Knowledge is not Wisdom May 12, 2013 Chuckles, Beauty, COP19+, G8, Red Lists, 400 ppmv Lake El’gygytgyn, CCAC,…

May 08, 2013

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1:59 PM | The Bottleneck Years by H. E. Taylor – Chapter 39

The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 38 Table of Contents Chapter 40 Chapter 39 A Walk in the Park, April 26, 2056 I got a bit of a surprise when I got home. Edie caught me just as I was entering and asked, “Do you think we are descending into a New Dark Age?”…

May 07, 2013

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12:11 AM | Breaking News – The Onion

Hilarious! And, as always from The Onion, so true…

May 06, 2013

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1:59 PM | Another Week of Anthropocene Antics, May 5, 2013

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 roundup skip to bottom Information Overloadis Pattern RecognitionMay 5, 2013 Chuckles, May Day, COP19+, MDGs, Unburnable, PAGES2k, Bottom Line, CookFukushima: Note, NewsFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Greece,…

May 01, 2013

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3:33 AM | The Bottleneck Years by H. E. Taylor – Chapter 38

The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 37 Table of Contents Chapter 39 Artificial Biology, April 19, 2056 I was beginning to feel like things were slipping out of control. I don’t know that they had ever been in control, but before Edie started Neurolin, before the Group 2 disaster and before Rhamaposa started talking…

April 30, 2013

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5:22 AM | Ice animations

Here are a couple of great animations of the arctic sea ice volume over the satellite era. (credit to Andy Lee Robinson, seen at Planet3) While this is not news, I think the animations make two things very clear. One, is that anyone even giving the time of day to the notion that there is…

April 29, 2013

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1:55 PM | Another Week of Anthropocene Antics, April 28, 2013

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 Sipping from the Internet Firehose… April 28, 2013 Chuckles, COP19+, PAGES2k, Ocean Heat, Earth Day, Unburnable Subsidies, Pricing Nature, Thermodynamics, Cook,…

April 24, 2013

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12:44 PM | The Bottleneck Years by H. E. Taylor – Chapter 37

The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 36 Table of Contents Chapter 38 Chapter 37 UNGETF Reacts, March 24, 2056 The public reaction after the Group 2 disaster was muted in North America. Not so in the USSA. A huge crowd rioted in Brasilia and burnt down the DCS building. The police just stood around…

April 22, 2013

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1:59 PM | Another Week in the Planetary Crisis, April 21, 2013

(featured image is the effect of Australia’s summer heatwave on Melbourne’s historical record, source) 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 Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years…

April 21, 2013

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11:33 PM | Floridians: if you’re not busy tonight, why not Do The Math?

(these are of course NA dates) Event Title: Do the Math … If you Love this Planet// Earth Night Gathering Venue: Country Park {Mobile Home} Community Clubhouse Location: Clearwater, FL Start Time: Sunday, April 21, 7:00 PM You can RSVP here: http://act.350.org/event/do_the_math_movie_attend/4678/signup/?t=2&akid=3034.683317.zTETWN Event Title: “Do the Math” sustainability tour movie at Eckerd College. Venue: Eckerd College Campus at…

April 17, 2013

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4:03 AM | The Bottleneck Years by H. E. Taylor – Chapter 36

The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 34 Table of Contents Chapter 37 Chapter 36 Neurolin, March 17, 2056 Edie was changing. I didn’t know how, but she was no longer the shy retiring mouse of a woman she had been. A week later I happened across a clue. As a matter of course, we…

April 15, 2013

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1:29 PM | Another Week in the Planetary Crisis, April 14, 2013

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 Information is not Knowledge…Knowledge is not Wisdom April 14, 2013 Chuckles, UNFF10, GCF-DC, EGU, G8, Marcott, Warnings Subsidies, Cook, Shrinkology Fukushima:…

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12:04 AM | Climate Declaration

Via Planet3.0 I see there is a declaration of the need, and competitive advantage it would bring, for action on climate change signed by a not insignificant number of major (non-fossil fuel) corporations. As Michael Tobis points out, it is, rather strangely, presented as an image only. So my contribution is running it through an…

April 10, 2013

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4:00 AM | The Bottleneck Years by H. E. Taylor – Chapter 35

The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 34 Table of Contents Chapter 36 Chapter 35 Prometheus, March 8, 2056 To be honest, the Group 2 debacle was more of a public relations disaster than an ecological one. The damage was dramatic, but relatively restricted. Within 48 hours someone leaked the hazmat team video on the…

April 08, 2013

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1:52 PM | Another Week in the Planetary Crisis, April 7, 2013

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 Information Overload is Pattern Recognition April 7, 2013 Chuckles, Fools, COP19+, MDGs, Critical Decade, Bintanja, Marcott, Warnings Subsidies, World Bank, WTO,…

April 04, 2013

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1:49 PM | The Bottleneck Years by H. E. Taylor – Chapter 34

The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 33 Table of Contents Chapter 35 Chapter 34 Group 2 Disaster, February 17, 2056 At the next UNGETF conference, we were given an interim report on Corella Corporation activities on behalf of Group 2. They were using balloons to hoist tons of sulphur pellets for release in the…

April 01, 2013

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1:52 PM | Another Week in the Planetary Crisis, March 31, 2013

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 roundup skip to bottom Sipping from the Internet Firehose…March 31, 2013 Chuckles, COP19+, North Korea, WSF, PES, Sensitivity Missing Heat, Marcott, Warnings, Subsidies, HSBC, Cook Fukushima…

March 28, 2013

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11:41 AM | The Bottleneck Years by H. E. Taylor – Chapter 33

The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 32 Table of Contents Chapter 34 Chapter 33 Jon Visits, January 27, 2056 On Sunday Jon called to say he would be dropping around to visit next week. The Senator was scheduled to hold a series of meetings with Provincial and First Nation leaders. He didn’t know when…

March 26, 2013

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3:23 AM | Dr. Jeff Masters: Katrina-level storm surges have more than doubled due to global warming

Jeff Masters reports on these studies: Grinsted, A., J. C. Moore, and S. Jevrejeva, 2012, “A homogeneous record of Atlantic hurricane surge threat since 1923,” PNAS 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1209542109 Grinsted, A., J. C. Moore, and S. Jevrejeva, 2012, “Projected Atlantic hurricane surge threat from rising temperatures” PNAS March 18, 2013 201209980, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1209980110 There is a…

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12:58 AM | Another Week of Climate Chaos News, March 24, 2013

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 Chaos News Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years March 24, 2013 Chuckles, Equinox, COP19+, WWD, Earth…

March 20, 2013

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1:55 PM | The Bottleneck Years by H. E. Taylor – Chapter 32

The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 31 Table of Contents Chapter 33 Chapter 32 One Thing After Another, December 14, 2055 The next few days were just one damned thing after another. On Monday, when I walked into Ecology 550, a spontaneous wave of applause broke out. I held up my hands. “Okay. Okay,…

March 18, 2013

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1:59 PM | Another Week of GW News, March 17, 2013

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 not Wisdom March 17, 2013 Chuckles, COP19+, CITES, JOGMEC, Marcott…

March 15, 2013

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5:49 AM | Chinese corporate hackers, the Chamber of Commerce, Fakegate

What do they have in common? Apparently some methodologies, uncovered by the hacktivist group Anonymous. Details can be found in an interesting, if dense, article at The Nation, which describes how Anonymous revealed dealings the Chamber of Commerce was having with a Cyber Security firm that did not limit itself to defensive measures. Attorneys for…

March 14, 2013

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4:44 AM | Inside the Corporate Media Pressure Machine

While this is not strictly relevant to climate (nor a new story), it is a very compelling and interesting illustration of why corporate media in general, and Fox in particular, can not be trusted with news stories where science intersects with an industry’s profitability. As mentioned in the video, this is the incident which prompted…

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12:43 AM | The Bottleneck Years by H. E. Taylor – Chapter 31

The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 30 Table of Contents Chapter 32 Chapter 31 A Convention of Idiots, December 12, 2055 Reality landed right on my shoulders with a thump that evening. I was at home in the library categorizing and prioritizing the Ecology 550 students’ geoengineering ideas, when the phone rang. It was…

March 11, 2013

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1:51 PM | Another Week of GW News, March 10. 2013

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 Overload is Pattern Recognition March 10, 2013 Chuckles, COP19+, CITES, Angry Summer, Marcott, DLST,…

March 08, 2013

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1:22 AM | Volcanos may be countering greenhouse warming

(image info and credits) Fake skeptics of anthropogenic global warming love to set up the straw man that mainstream climate science believes that CO2 is the one and only driver of climate change. They can then use it in many different attacks, such as gee whiz isn’t it stupid that they haven’t even thought of…