illconsidered | August 2, 2013Watch the video below and see if you can see where the warming stops:
(seen at the wonderful APOD site)
illconsidered | August 2, 2013A commenter on the most recent edition of het's AWOGWN asks an interesting set of questions:
How would temperature data have been seen during the last 10,000 years prior to the peak of each of the previous Milankovich cycles? What caused the temperature to reverse course in those cycles and why would we not expect it to occur again this time?
First, here are the quick answers to those three questions, then some discussion. 1. It is not currently possible to resolve the temperature record that long ago to anything close to what we have today. 2. The cause of the temperature reversal is not…
illconsidered | August 1, 2013The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
Chapter 50
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Soap, February 20, 2057
Anna came down the hall complaining. "Mommy, my tummy hurts." There were bubbles coming out of her mouth.
Edie took one look and yelled, "Luc, call an ambulance!"
I came out of the kitchen and saw Anna down on her hands and knees vomitting on the front room floor. There was a trail of liquid down the hall to the bathroom. Following the trail back, I found a shampoo bottle on the bathroom floor. It was about half full.
"Do you know how much was in this?"
"Oh my god!" exclaimed…
illconsidered | July 29, 2013This 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
July 28, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, MEF, Whiteman, Warnings
Bottom Line, Subsidies, EIB, Pricing Nature, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Related Papers
Melting Arctic, Harp Seals, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Land Grabs, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes, New Weather, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, CO2 Fertilization
Temperatures, Aerosols, Paleoclimate,…
illconsidered | July 26, 2013The Bottleneck Years
by H.E. Taylor
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Eco 110 - Carrying Capacity, January 15, 2057
Notes on a lecture
It was the first class of the term. I was purposefully late, because I wanted everyone to be present and impatient. I walked in, dropped my case on the wide black presentation desk and turned to face the old theatre style hall.
"Okay, here is the question: Are we collectively smarter than a vat of yeast?"
I let that sink in for a few seconds, then continued with:
"The topic for today is carrying capacity.
"Intuitively, the idea is how…
illconsidered | July 26, 2013The Bottleneck Years
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Solstice, December 27, 2056
I have not been writing much, because I have been busy with the lichen. Annoyingly, the symbiotic signalling continues to elude me. A colleague at CCU collaborated with me on a paper. "An examination of the laboratory growth rates of the lichen eFontaine1" by Luc C. Fontaine and George R. Collins. eFontaine1 was the proper name, but we all called it eF1.
Last year by unspoken assent, Edie and I both more or less ignored xmas. This year Anna was old enough that she would…
illconsidered | July 22, 2013This 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 Overloadis Pattern Recognition
July 21, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, International Tax, Antarctic Reserve, Pollution Mortality
Bottom Line, Finance, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Land Grabs, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, New Weather
Temperatures, Feedbacks, Aerosols, Paleoclimate
Oceans,…
illconsidered | July 20, 2013The Bottleneck Years
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Edie's Questions , October 4, 2056
Since our talk about Neurolin last spring, Edie had applied herself to her distance courses and done well. She had stopped taking it when she finished the courses. Judging by the steady stream of customers who dropped around for fab created items, her basement business was thriving.
I mentioned it to her once. "I noticed you set up another fab," I said.
She nodded with a funny little smile. "Yeah, I've been busy," but no more was said.
Several times Edie ambushed me…
illconsidered | July 18, 2013The Bottleneck Years
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Symbiosis, September 27, 2056
The next time I got into the lab, I started pulling apart lichen just to get a feel for the territory. Lichen is a symbiosis of an algae and a fungus. The fungus in the north is usually an ascomycetes. The algal component is usually a simple green algae, although occasionally a blue-green algae is found. A lot of work had been done on green algae earlier in the century while investigating their suitability for biofuel. It was the fungal component, the ascomycetes, which…
illconsidered | July 16, 2013This 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...July 14, 2013 Chuckles, China-USA, Pollution Deaths, Injection Earthquakes Sumatran Smog, Warnings, Rentiers, Bottom Line, Banks, CookFukushima: Note, News, Policies Melting Arctic, Methane, AntarcticaFood: Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs, Production Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, New Weather Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Feedbacks, Aerosols…
illconsidered | July 14, 2013Things have been quiet here, even more than the usual slow pace...
I am back now from a trip to Europe where I left the family with the kids maternal grandparents and I won't see them for nine weeks in all. This was a bad plan, but it was the plan. I have been home for a couple of weeks already, but I managed to lose my laptop traveling. Yes, that is a big pain in the behind and it has made many previously simple and efficient things more difficult. Mind you, it could have been much worse as the external hard drive I always keep in my laptop bag was not in my laptop bag and this is where…
illconsidered | July 14, 2013The Bottleneck Years
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Boo-Boo, August 26, 2056
I found myself becoming quite anthropological watching Anna learn to walk and talk over the summer. She is a curious and rambunctious child who is always getting into things we thought out of reach. If it isn't pots and pans, it is the media padd, old shoes -- you name it -- any damned thing we inadvertently leave open. I walked into the kitchen one day and Anna was sitting in the middle of the floor chewing on a mud-covered carrot she had pulled from a pile on the counter.…
illconsidered | July 8, 2013This 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
July 7, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, WMO, Steinacher, CO2 Fertilization, Desertec, Rabobank, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather, New Weather, GHGs, Temperatures, Aerosols
Paleoclimate, ENSO, Biosphere, Extinctions,…
illconsidered | July 4, 2013This 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
June 30, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, Montreal Protocol, Indian Monsoon, Obama's Plan, Sumatran Smog
Bottom Line, World Bank, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies, Related Papers
Melting Arctic, Geopolitics
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, New Weather
GHGs,…
illconsidered | June 24, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Mid-Summer's Day Edition
June 23, 2013
Chuckles, Solstice, COP19+, Post-G8, UK Meeting, Indian Monsoon
Sumatran Smog, European Flood, World Bank, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
Melting Arctic, Arctic Birds, Methane, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, Production
Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, New Weather, Temperatures
GHGs, Aerosols, Clouds,…
illconsidered | June 21, 2013The Bottleneck Years
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Daedalus, August 19, 2056
What is it that makes the PR efforts of the space industry always look so lame? Don't get me wrong. I love space. I think humans are bound to colonize the solar system sooner or later. As Tsiolkovsky said, "The earth is the cradle of mankind, but we cannot stay in the cradle forever." But I have yet to see a space agency that could sell their mother a ride to the corner, let alone to Pluto.
Carson Tyler Inc. announced the Daedalus Project with great fanfare when the five…
illconsidered | June 18, 2013The Bottleneck Years
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An Unsettling Meeting, July 19, 2056
With the summer trimester, my schedule changed. Peter cut the UNGETF meetings down to once a month. I no longer had classes on Wednesday, the regular UNGETF meeting day. Usually I went in to work in the lab, but occasionally I stayed at home.
As I walked downtown to the meeting that day, the sun was burning hot. I was sweating within a block. It was uncomfortable and I was thirsty, but mainly I was troubled by my membrane design. My artificial biology project was…
illconsidered | June 17, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is not Wisdom
June 16, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, Bonn, Xi-Obama, G8, IEA, EIA, Europe Flood, Cook
Fukushima: Note, News, Policies, Related Papers
Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, Land Grabs, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes, Monsoon, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather…
illconsidered | June 10, 2013Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years
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Information Overloadis Pattern Recognition
June 9, 2013
Chuckles, COP19+, Bonn, WED, WOD, European Floods, Patriot, CO2 Fertilization
Bottom Line, Pricing Nature, Global Legal Framework, Cook, Warnings, Lu, Weathermen
Fukushima: Note, News, Related Papers
Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica
Food: Crisis, Fisheries, Prices, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Production
Hurricanes,…
illconsidered | June 7, 2013The Bottleneck Years
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Group 5, July 12, 2056
No announcement of Group 5 commencement was made. I heard one day that a rocket had been launched from Whitesands. A week later there was another and I wondered. I remembered Rhamaposa's call in March. I checked UNGETF's Group 5 website and saw that launches had been happening for a month and a half. Project Daedalus was going ahead.
Group 5 was subdivided into four subgroups. At the heart of it was the L1 construction group. They were responsible for building the actual sun…