Another Week of GW News, September 16, 2012

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


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Another Week of Climate Instability News

Sipping from the Internet Firehose...

September 16, 2012

 


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It's always nice to start with a chuckle:

 


Low Key Plug

 

My first novel Water was published in Canada May, 2007. The American release was in October. An Introductionto the novel is available, along with the Unpublished Forewordand the Launch Talk(which includes some quotations), An overview of my writing is available here.

<regards>

-het

P.S. Recent postings can be found in the week archive and the ancient postings can be accessed here, which should open to this.

I notice moyhu has set up a monster index to old AWoGWN on AFTIC.


"Not much has changed. You get the sense that psychologically, and we may just be exquisitely designed not to deal with climate change, everyone is focused on their little piece of the pie. You're doing what you can day by day. And the problem is that if you really think climate change is a problem, you need to start looking at solutions that are revolutionary. What we're doing right now is not revolutionary, and frankly, I don't know what's going to get us out of this equation." -Kevin Ummel, CARMA Project Manager

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