The following article is a guest post by H. E. Taylor, who you might recognize as the one who graciously provides us with the weekly GW news roundups. The Ecological Crunch and the Dyer Scale When I saw the headline, "50 percent of all species disappearing"[2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] my first … Continue reading The Ecological Crunch and the Dyer Scale
Month: December 2008
Another Week of GW News, December 28, 2008
Another Week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the internet firehose... 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 Global Warming News Sipping from the internet firehose... December 28, 2008 Top Stories:Tennessee Coal Sludge, USCCSP … Continue reading Another Week of GW News, December 28, 2008
Another Week of GW News, December 21, 2008
Another Week of Climate Disruption News Sipping from the internet firehose... 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) December 21, 2008 Top Stories:Poznan, AGU, Abrupt Climate Change, Methane Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica, Recession, Year End, Cosmic Rays, … Continue reading Another Week of GW News, December 21, 2008
How’s this for jaw dropping…
How's this for jaw dropping, mind-boggling, unintentional irony? Question to the Bush administration at this year's UN climate change talks: If you look back over the course of the last few years, is there anything you would have done differently or is there anything you wished had happened but didn't happen? Answer: I wish first … Continue reading How’s this for jaw dropping…
A question of time
My first Common Lisp programming job was for Mercury Scheduling (no longer around) working on the back end of airline crew control software. The main focus was assisting crew controllers in scheduling personnel on flights. We had to satisfy literally hundreds of constraints from union regulations, government regulations to...what else?...oh yeah, the constraints of reality … Continue reading A question of time
Monbiot interviews Fatih Birol
...interviews who?? Fatih Birol is the Chief Economist for the International Energy Authority, the agency that the whole world (or at least the "official" part of that world) relies on for forecasts about energy production and demand. This is the organization that governments around the world like to cite when dismissing as crackpots people warning … Continue reading Monbiot interviews Fatih Birol
Another Week of GW News, December 14, 2008
Sipping from the internet firehose... 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) December 14, 2008 Top Stories:Poznan, EU 20/20/20 Plan, Recession Melting Arctic, Wilkins SatWebCam, Methane, CCPI, Late Comment Food Crisis, Food Production Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, Carbon … Continue reading Another Week of GW News, December 14, 2008