The Bottleneck Years by H.E.Taylor – Chapter 81

The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 80 Table of Contents Chapter 82 Chapter 81 Visitation Rights, November 19, 2059 I watched the days tick by, waiting for Wednesday. How would Jon receive me? What would his state of mind be? I was on tenterhooks when I placed the call. I should have known better. …

Another Week of Anthropocene Antics, February 23, 2014

This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundupskip to bottom Information Overload is Pattern RecognitionFebruary 23, 2014 Chuckles, COP20+, G20, NAFTA, England et al., Energiewende Bottom Line, Subsidies, Crap Detector, CookFukushima: Note, News, Related Papers Melting Arctic, Methane, AntarcticaFood: …

The Bottleneck Years by H.E.Taylor – Chapter 80

The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 79 Table of Contents Chapter 81 Chapter 80 Makeba, November 14, 2055 Aretha, I would like to call your attention to an SRM device of which I have recently been apprised. The rough theory is in the UNGETF database, keyword Sunbugs. An implementation is to be found in …

Watch the largest ever witnessed glacier calving event

Via a blog posting on NPR, below is an excerpt from the recent Academy Award nominated documentary "Chasing Ice" showing highlights of a 75 minute glacier calving event recorded in Greenland. At the end is a time-lapse sequence of the entire event along with some visuals to put the size in perspective.  Really amazing stuff! …

England’s worst winter weather in at least 248 years

As most of you know already, England's dramatic sequence of winter storms since December has resulted in its worst winter on record.  England's records go back 248 years.  (Al Jazeera is reporting 300 years).  Who knows if such a series of storms has ever occurred since the climate stabilized after the last glaciation ended some …

Another Week of Anthropocene Antics, February 16, 2014

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... February 16, 2014 Chuckles, COP20+, London Declaration, AAAS, England, Energiewende Bottom Line, Thermodynamics, Cr*p Detector, Cook Fukushima: Note, News, Policies Melting Arctic, Polar …

The Bottleneck Years by H.E.Taylor – Chapter 79

The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 78 Table of Contents Chapter 80 Chapter 79 The Military Industrial Prison Complex, November 14, 2055 What do you do when your brother is locked up for an unconscionable crime and you have good reason to believe he is guilty? You see that he has a good lawyer. …

Another Week in the Ecological Crisis, February 9, 2014

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 February 9, 2014 Chuckles, C40, NSA, MPAs, Warnings, Fish, Energiewende Bottom Line, Subsidies, Cook Fukushima: Note, News, Policies Melting Arctic, Polar …

One of the biggest problems for humanity

Via un-climate-related readings, I came across this gem (from the victim article of the link): My job is to assess not the rightness of each argument but to deal in the real world of campaign politics in which perception often (if not always) trumps reality. I deal in the world as voters believe it is, …

The Bottleneck Years by H.E.Taylor – Chapter 78

The Bottleneck Years by H.E. Taylor Chapter 77 Table of Contents Chapter 79 Chapter 78 EcoCops, November 13, 2059 The next day the ecocops arrived. Edie and I were having breakfast, when they pulled up in the lane right below our window. Anna, as she liked to say, was "doing lady things" in the bathroom. …