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illconsidered | April 15, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
April 14, 2013
Chuckles, UNFF10, GCF-DC, EGU, G8, Marcott, Warnings
Subsidies, Cook, Shrinkology
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies, Related Papers
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather,…
illconsidered | April 8, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
April 7, 2013
Chuckles, Fools, COP19+, MDGs, Critical Decade, Bintanja, Marcott, Warnings
Subsidies, World Bank, WTO, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Related Papers
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, Food Production
Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, New Weather, GHGs,…
esiegel | April 5, 2013"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Universe has been around for a long time: 13.8 billion years, to be precise. As humans, we're relatively young, and our species has only been around for the last couple of hundred thousand years of it. For nearly all of human history, this is what the night skies have looked like.
Image credit: The Milky Way, by Stephane Guisard.
When the Moon isn't out and you're in a place that's…
illconsidered | April 1, 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 Note, Fukushima News Melting Arctic, Megafauna, Geopolitics, Antarctica Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, Food Production Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, New Weather GHGs, Carbon Cycle…
denialism | March 29, 2013It's a sad day for the reality-based community, within the critiques of Jane Goodall's new book 'Seeds of Hope' we find that in addition to plagiarism and sloppiness with facts, she's fallen for anti-GMO crank Jeffrey Smith's nonsense.
When asked by The Guardian whom she most despised, Goodall responded, “The agricultural company Monsanto, because I know too much about GM organisms and crops.” She might know too much, but what if what she knows is completely wrong?
Many of the claims in Seeds of Hope can also be found in Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered…
illconsidered | March 26, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Chaos News
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
March 24, 2013
Chuckles, Equinox, COP19+, WWD, Earth Hour, Marcott, Grinsted
World Bank, Cook, Weathermen
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather…
pgleick | March 20, 2013Water is a theme that runs through all forms of popular culture, from books to myths to Hollywood and international films, with a growing number of shorter video pieces posted online at YouTube and similar sites. Having trouble keeping your Netflix list populated? Below are some classic (good and bad) movies – good and bad – with some kind of water theme: conflict over water in classic western movies; science-fiction thrillers with a water component; visions of the apocalypse where water access or contamination plays a role; and more. (An early version of this list was published in the last…
illconsidered | March 18, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Instability News
Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
March 17, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, CITES, JOGMEC, Marcott
Bottom Line, Subsidies, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Anniversary, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, GMOs, Food Production
Hurricanes,…
illconsidered | March 11, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Instability News
Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
March 10, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, CITES, Angry Summer, Marcott, DLST, Maldives
Bottom Line, Subsidies, Cook, Meteorologists
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, Land…
sastyk | March 7, 2013Chances are you already have a strong opinion on this subject. There's a great deal of noise, mostly but not wholly on the American right about the dangers of fertility decline. Jonathan Last's book _What To Expect When No One is Expecting_ and Ross Douthat's recent lament about American women's TFR (total fertility rate - the reason men aren't mentioned is that men don't count in fertility calculations) is down to 1.87 children. Both writers predict fairly dire outcomes - economic stagnation a la Japan, a benefits crisis as insufficient new workers arrive. Moreover, for Douthat and…
illconsidered | March 4, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Instability News
Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
March 3, 2013
Chuckles, Sensawunda, COP19+, CITES, Petoukhov, Vaks
Bottom Line, Subsidies, Thermodynamics, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Land Grabs, GMOs, Food Production
Hurricanes, Notable…
gregladen | February 27, 2013You all know that the Arctic Ice melts more each summer than ever before. In a few years, the Arctic will be ice free during the summer. The rate of annual melting is greater than expected even just a few years ago. Please note that the increasing melt of Arctic sea ice does not bode well for the associated Greenland Ice Sheet which is also showing signs of melting at a higher rate than expected. The melting of Arctic sea ice has a number of important environmental implications, but the melting of the Greenland Glacier has that plus more; it will contribute significantly to sea level rise…
illconsidered | February 25, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Disruption News
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
February 24, 2013
Chuckles, JODTAA, COP19+, Bowman vs. Monsanto, Vaks, Warnings, Maldives, Tesla
Bottom Line, Subsidies, WB, Pricing Nature, Thermodynamics, Cook, Meteorologists
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Geopolitics
Food Crisis, Fisheries, SRI,…
gregladen | February 24, 2013Is there a problem with John Abraham’s argument about Obama’s Legacy?
John Abraham wrote a piece in the Guardian titled Keystone XL decision will define Barack Obama’s legacy on climate change: Does the president have courage to say ‘no’ to a project that will lock us into decades of dependency on this dirty energy? in which he states:
Alberta has 1.8 [trillion] barrels of oil contained within the tar sands. Extracting and burning all of that tar will cause a global temperature increase of about 0.4 degrees C (0.7 degrees F). That is about half of the warming that humans have already caused…
illconsidered | February 18, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Disruption News
Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
February 17, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, Tesla, Maldives, Warnings, GreenPeace, Gleick
Bottom Line, Subsidies, Thermodynamics, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Land Grabs, IP Issues, GMOs, Food…
illconsidered | February 12, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Disruption News
Information Overload is Pattern Recognition
February 10, 2013
Chuckles, Survival, Lai Pei-yuan, Nickel, Transition, Uranium, Belief
Bottom Line, Subsidies, GFIs, Thermodynamics, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Food vs.…
pgleick | February 8, 2013Welcome to the first post in my new National Geographic ScienceBlogs column “Significant Figures.” I look forward to sharing my thoughts with you on a wide range of environmental science-related issues, data, and people, and to a productive and constructive interaction.
My background? I’m an environmental scientist by training and inclination, with experience in engineering, hydrology, climatology, and interdisciplinary analysis. My research and writing have, for over thirty years, focused on water resources, climate dynamics and change, energy, risk assessment, and the synthesis and…
pharyngula | February 7, 2013It's always gratifying to see a scientific organization step up and use their collective expertise to make a clear statement on a political and economic issue. The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) has published an open letter to President Obama rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline is a ghastly stopgap that hinders the promotion of better, cleaner alternative energy sources by encouraging ever more desperate and destructive efforts to harvest marginal energy sources…efforts to keep us on our petroleum addiction until the last drop of oil is wrung out of the…
illconsidered | February 4, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Another Week of Climate Disruption News
Sipping from the Internet Firehose...
February 3, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, Clean Air, Australian Floods, Tyee, Nigeria & Shell, Oh Oh Squad
MDGs, GW & Rain, Bottom Line, IMF, Thermodynamics, Crap Detection, Cook
Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food Crisis, Fisheries,…
carlyo | February 4, 2013
In today's blog USA Science & Engineering Festival Fan Dr. Jessica Carilli offers a little advice to those that are pursuing graduate school.
Blog post from "Jessica's Blog of Bad Advice"
Go To Graduate School by Dr. Jessica Carilli
This could be the worst piece of advice you will get from this blog, because there is ample evidence these days that obtaining a graduate degree won’t get you a job (or not the kind you thought).
But I’m going to take the opposite tack, and tell you why attending grad school is not the worst idea you’ve ever had.
In 2003, I graduated with my BS in…