tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-131455112024-03-14T12:35:50.152-05:00Adaptation Factory TMUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13145511.post-14036587498706889112016-10-07T03:02:00.001-05:002016-10-07T03:02:19.086-05:00Long Term Necessity and Short Term Reward<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The previously posted</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://adaptationfactory.blogspot.com/2016/10/a-rather-interesting-video-re.htm">http://adaptationfactory.blogspot.com/2016/10/a-rather-interesting-video-re.htm</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I has made have this thought:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To address the the hardwired restraint of Hyperbolic Discounting,:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A long term need itself will need to be addressed in a planned (probably using iterative planning) series of short term rewards, that positively reward individuals in the ways consistent with the Socially Obligate Economical Boundary Condition.?</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13145511.post-74095014147443550742016-10-07T02:29:00.000-05:002016-10-07T02:29:23.703-05:00A rather interesting video re Anthropocene Science and Management from 2014 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maintaining Humanity's Life Support Systems in the 21st Century</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKxkacvztCA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKxkacvztCA</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13145511.post-77142682193091656732016-10-04T18:04:00.003-05:002016-10-04T18:04:41.118-05:00Northwest Passage<h1 class="article_title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; letter-spacing: -0.04em; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 0em;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Arctic sea ice annual minimum ties second lowest on record</span></i></span></h1>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://climate.nasa.gov/news/2496/arctic-sea-ice-annual-minimum-ties-second-lowest-on-record/">http://climate.nasa.gov/news/2496/arctic-sea-ice-annual-minimum-ties-second-lowest-on-record/</a></span><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVY8LoM47xI" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Northwest Passage</i></span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13145511.post-56024250965963165012016-09-29T11:53:00.001-05:002016-09-29T11:53:36.517-05:00And now, a word from Bill<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks to David for the heads up on this one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.1px;">"The future of humanity depends on math. And the numbers in a </span><a href="http://priceofoil.org/2016/09/22/the-skys-limit-report/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; background-image: linear-gradient(to top, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0%, rgb(255, 255, 255) 49%, rgb(0, 0, 0) 50%, rgb(0, 0, 0) 100%); background-position: 0px 97.5%; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.03em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.05em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.05em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0.09em 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -0.075em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">new study</a> <span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.1px;">released Thursday are the most ominous yet....</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/136987/recalculating-climate-math"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">https://newrepublic.com/article/136987/recalculating-climate-math</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13145511.post-19556498169481222402016-09-18T21:57:00.002-05:002016-09-18T21:57:11.804-05:00Taking a bit of a break from posting....Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13145511.post-6240693911973843762016-09-15T09:49:00.001-05:002016-09-15T09:49:31.780-05:00New Citizen Science Book<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.wpr.org/programs/joy-cardin-show" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">THE JOY CARDIN SHOW</a>, </span><br />
<a href="http://www.wpr.org/shows/how-citizen-scientists-will-save-world"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">http://www.wpr.org/shows/how-citizen-scientists-will-save-world</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interview with the author of this book:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><i>Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction</i></span></h1>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13145511.post-71394547250467566452016-09-14T23:55:00.000-05:002016-09-15T00:03:32.195-05:00Drop Your _____ and Grab Your Socks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Center for Climate and Security, in partnership with the Center for the National Interest and the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, is hosting the first annual Climate and National Security Forum today..."</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Statement </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/climate-and-security-consensus-project-statement-2016_09.pdf">https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/climate-and-security-consensus-project-statement-2016_09.pdf</a></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Briefing Book for a New Administration</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i> </i><a href="https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/climate-and-security-advisory-group_briefing-book-for-a-new-administration_2016_091.pdf">https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/climate-and-security-advisory-group_briefing-book-for-a-new-administration_2016_091.pdf</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Military Expert Panel Report on Sea Level Rise and the U.S. Military’s Mission</i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/center-for-climate-and-security_military-expert-panel-report2.pdf">https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/center-for-climate-and-security_military-expert-panel-report2.pdf</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -1px;">Intelligence Director on climate change as “underlying meta-driver of unpredictable instability”</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -1px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2016/09/09/intelligence-director-on-climate-as-underlying-meta-driver-of-unpredictable-instability">https://climateandsecurity.org/2016/09/09/intelligence-director-on-climate-as-underlying-meta-driver-of-unpredictable-instability</a>/</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -1px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Transcript</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -1px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Newsroom/Speeches%20and%20Interviews/insa2016.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Newsroom/Speeches%20and%20Interviews/insa2016.pdf </a></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13145511.post-28802963574276292202016-09-02T09:04:00.001-05:002016-09-02T09:13:52.173-05:00The Arctic Blues & the Midwest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://neven1.typepad.com/.a/6a0133f03a1e37970b01bb0930d921970d-800wi" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://neven1.typepad.com/.a/6a0133f03a1e37970b01bb0930d921970d-800wi" height="400" width="400" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The decreasing summer & annual Arctic ice cover (in both surface area & thickness) is of keen interest to folks seriously looking at climate change adaptation in the continental U.S., especially in the Midwest and Northeast. This is because of the very strong role the Arctic has played in the character of the weather for "us folks down here"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A good resource that is tracking the change in the Arctic climate and weather is <i>The Arctic Sea Ice Blog, at </i><a href="http://neven1.typepad.com/">http://neven1.typepad.com/</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A good example of the new and rapidly changing conditions up there, is in the very recent post on the <a href="http://neven1.typepad.com/blog/2016/08/2016-mega-dipole.html" target="_blank">Arctic Dipole 2016</a>. That is related to winds pushing ice around, moving more open water to the pole, weather there and here.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interesting stuff.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13145511.post-29564881101758869252016-08-30T15:10:00.002-05:002016-08-30T15:10:23.040-05:00New Resource for Those working with Communities<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Colleague David Liebl has published a new brochure to help educators working with their communities on climate resiliency. Addressed to Wisconsin but should be of general interest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://fyi.uwex.edu/climate/files/2016/08/ClimateWI2050-Communites-August-2016.pdf">http://fyi.uwex.edu/climate/files/2016/08/ClimateWI2050-Communites-August-2016.pdf</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13145511.post-20462486875121819952016-08-25T10:47:00.000-05:002016-08-25T11:13:16.969-05:00Energy Past and Future<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In part of my writing/teaching,
I explore the existence of some of the boundary conditions that mold our
ability to find solutions to problems, and the long term implications thereof.
The most interesting one for me is what I call the <a href="http://adaptationfactory.blogspot.com/p/economic-socially-obligate-boundary.html" target="_blank">Economic Socially Obligate Boundary Condition (ESOBC)</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
dominance of ESOBC upon our thinking, and another wetware element called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_discounting" target="_blank">Hyperbolic Discounting</a>, helps explain how we will do an activity that is scientifically speaking questionable as to
sustainability, but pursued non-the-less.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">One
of the useful tools for exploring ESOBC in application and understanding the process of adoption of energy sources is:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>EROEI</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Energy
returned on energy invested</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“In
physics, energy economics, and ecological energetics, energy returned on energy
invested (EROEI or ERoEI); or energy return on investment (EROI), is the ratio
of the amount of usable energy delivered from a particular energy resource to
the amount of energy used to obtain that energy resource. It is a distinct
measure from energy efficiency as it does not measure the primary energy inputs
to the system, only usable energy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
fuel or energy must have an EROEI ratio of at least 3:1 to be considered viable
as a prominent fuel or energy source.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_returned_on_energy_invested">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_returned_on_energy_invested</a>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Note:
“The natural or primary energy sources are not usually included in the
calculation of energy invested, only the human-applied sources. For example, in
the case of biofuels the solar insolation driving photosynthesis is not
included, and the energy used in the stellar synthesis of fissile elements is
not included for nuclear fission.” Ibid<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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important note: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality" target="_blank">Externalities</a> a</span><span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">re
also not included in mainstream EROEI analysis, which is problematic for sustainability.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">EROI (energy return on
investment) is often used as a term for essentially the same thing, its virtue
being similarity with other ROI type measures commonly used. An example being
the suggested article; <i><a href="http://ac.els-cdn.com/S0301421513003856/1-s2.0-S0301421513003856-main.pdf?_tid=f10c0c78-6ac6-11e6-882b-00000aab0f26&acdnat=1472131516_dae60264ec95b9d35496790ba0aaf7ff" target="_blank">EROI of different fuels and the implicationsfor society</a></i>, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">For example, assuming that oil prices are "high enough", why fracking is "attractive":</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“…analysis
indicates that the EROI ratio of a typical well is likely between 64:1 and
112:1, with a mean of approximately 85:1.”
(close to the EROI of coal). J<i>ournal of Industrial Ecology</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130617111355.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130617111355.htm</a>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Oh, and do not forget</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Khazzoom–Brookes
postulate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“The
postulate states that "energy efficiency improvements that, on the
broadest considerations, are economically justified at the microlevel, lead to
higher levels of energy consumption at the macrolevel."This idea is a more
modern analysis of a phenomenon known as the Jevons Paradox. In 1865, William
Stanley Jevons observed that England's consumption of coal increased
considerably after James Watt introduced his improvements to the steam engine.
Jevons argued that increased efficiency in the use of coal would tend to
increase the demand for coal, and would not reduce the rate at which England's
deposits of coal were running out.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazzoom%E2%80%93Brookes_postulate">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazzoom%E2%80%93Brookes_postulate</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Lets add some depth, or why the picture of Leaf Cutter ants at the top of this post</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">UW Madison Prof.
Timothy F. H. Allen provides a nice cross-disciplinary bridge between the
biologic and the “economic”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.botany.wisc.edu/allenlab/AllenLab/Research.html">http://www.botany.wisc.edu/allenlab/AllenLab/Research.html</a>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Specially
recommended reading:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol7/iss3/art4/">http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol7/iss3/art4/</a>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13145511.post-82025674673970933352016-08-25T09:49:00.000-05:002016-08-25T09:49:18.753-05:00A very Useful Graphics set re the Warming<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks to Mary for the heads up on this one;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This graphics page from <i>Bloomberg</i>, is useful for explaining the different inputs on atmospheric temperature and why the anthropogenic input is the culprit.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world/</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13145511.post-65668700478746906932016-08-24T09:44:00.000-05:002016-08-24T10:02:20.743-05:00This Explains Alot<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“the argumentative theory of reasoning—proposes that instead
of having a purely individual function, reasoning has a social and, more
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13145511.post-89981197803263477212016-08-23T08:58:00.002-05:002016-08-23T09:02:28.643-05:00PETM in the News <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Paleoclimatologists have been very interested in finding an analog in the past for our current rapid warming. A period of high interest among researchers is the <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 19.2px;">The Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Thermal_Maximum" target="_blank">(</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 19.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Thermal_Maximum" target="_blank">PETM</a></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 19.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Thermal_Maximum" target="_blank">)</a>, aka "Eocene thermal maximum 1" (ETM1). Looking at analogs is important for adaptation planning since while not exact example by any means, it also can give broad stroke glimpse of possibilities. For example, we have acidification of the oceans in progress. The same occurred during the PETM with the fossil record helping us examine an example of a mass extinction of shelled sea life, that went through a bottleneck at that time. Of course, relevance is limited. The carbon loading and temperature increase rate in the PETM was spread over a a much longer period than ours is and will be. in our "worst case" scenario aka business as usual models, and past/current measurement, it is occurring over just a few centuries.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 19.2px;">If you work in the area of adaptation, I recommend reading the new paper </span></span></span><i>Anthropogenic carbon release rate unprecedented during the past 66 million years </i>(2016)<i> </i>In<i> Nature Geoscience, </i>with full text PDF available through <i>esholarship.org @ <a href="http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2t94z0x7#page-1">http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2t94z0x7#page-1</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This paper, among other things, takes a really close look at tempo/rate*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"As rapid reductions in anthropogenic carbon emissions appear increasingly
unlikely in the near future, forecasting the Earth system’s response to ever-increasing
emission rates has become a high priority focus of climate research. Because climate
model simulations and projections have large uncertainties – often due to the
uncertain strength of feedbacks – geologic analogues from past climate events are
invaluable in understanding the impacts of massive carbon release on the Earth
system..."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">*</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As comedian <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Tony Robinson says, </span> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">"In climate change as in comedy, it is all in the timing."</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"> </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13145511.post-40019308407424921972016-08-17T11:31:00.000-05:002016-08-17T11:31:03.611-05:00A Good Context Review for Use in Short Attention Span Theatre<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nobel Laureate Murray Gell-Mann said a few decades ago, that what we really needed in education was some kind of "crude look at the whole".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This "Big History" video series would be a good thing for everyone to watch, before they start to work together on well, anything? It teaches about the big context...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Big History Crash Course</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMczXZUmjb3mZSU1Roxnrey" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMczXZUmjb3mZSU1Roxnrey </a></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Information overload: A crude Look At the Whole</span></i><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzUF_5je1LQ" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">part two</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13145511.post-29281073680490983352016-08-17T08:33:00.005-05:002016-08-17T08:42:13.437-05:00Visualizing the Anthropocene <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Given how how brains and senses evolved, we find some types of visualization difficult. That difficulty is both spatial and temporal. Many scientists tells use we are in a in a epoch, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene" target="_blank">Anthropocene</a>, (epoch of man). Chances are that if time allows, the </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"> </span>International Commission on Stratigraphy<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"> and the </span>International Union of Geological Sciences will eventually make it official. The current rapid climate change, river diversions, mountain top removal mining, The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch" target="_blank">Great Pacific Gyre</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch" target="_blank">Garbage Patch</a>, etc., we do not have a shortage of examples of our impact.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Yet, the ability to really see this is not a common skill. We are all each born into one spot in spacetime, and that point is our "normal", our moving point of reference along our world line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I think one of the best ways to explore the minutiae of the epoch, and then be able to form a pattern-understanding is through the work of artist/photographer <a href="http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/" target="_blank">Edward Burtynsky</a>.He has spent the last 35 years documenting the new epoch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">His <a href="https://www.ted.com/speakers/edward_burtynsky" target="_blank">TED Talks</a> page</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Trailer for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv23xwe0BoU" target="_blank">Manufactured Landscapes</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A <i>Greenbiz </i>article of interest: </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #312f30; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2;"><a href="https://www.greenbiz.com/article/leed-vertical-farms-defining-high-tech-sustainable-food?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=newsletter-type-greenbuzz-daily&utm_content=2016-08-14&utm_campaign=newsletter-type-greenbuzz-daily-105686&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTWpnNE5EazBPREF6WldZNSIsInQiOiIrSTF4ZWxBZ3dIbzJxMkp3akFSZnR0VXV1czdQUW9oZkxVZENRUEptOXFja2dMYVdtY285WTVXR3dteEV5SzNwRDVDWExMalVFTzNLZ2dvSlRaZVZCR0NCdkwreENYcjhQZStkTVlrMHBtST0ifQ%3D%3D" target="_blank">LEED for vertical farms? Defining high-tech sustainable food</a> </i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #312f30; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 1.2;">The newish</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #312f30; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2;"> Association for Vertical Farming</i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.2px;"><span style="color: #312f30; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The <i><a href="http://www.verticalfarm.com/?page_id=36" target="_blank">Vertical Essay</a></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.2px;">A contrary view: </span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13145511.post-79768159726962749742016-08-09T10:52:00.001-05:002016-08-09T10:52:52.132-05:00Hot Business<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Thanks to Mary for this one...</div>
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<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-100-years-2016-8">http://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-100-years-2016-8</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13145511.post-25572479001024395302016-08-09T08:55:00.002-05:002016-08-09T08:56:32.670-05:00Drying Out<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theconversation.com/what-historic-megadroughts-in-the-western-us-tell-us-about-our-climate-future-37615">http://theconversation.com/what-historic-megadroughts-in-the-western-us-tell-us-about-our-climate-future-37615</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A video by NASA of <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ADxIBm0QrA" target="_blank">North American Drought Projections</a></i></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13145511.post-84897330793060423892016-08-05T09:20:00.001-05:002016-08-05T09:20:47.875-05:00Giving the Real Estate term "Under Water" another meaning...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks to Mary for the heads up on this one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The national real estate site Zillow is starting to address climate change in their research and information for customers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Weather Channel piece:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <a href="https://weather.com/news/weather/video/climate-change-could-bring-flooding">https://weather.com/news/weather/video/climate-change-could-bring-flooding</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Zillow's report</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.zillow.com/research/climate-change-underwater-homes-12890/">http://www.zillow.com/research/climate-change-underwater-homes-12890/</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13145511.post-65762835056448317332016-08-03T11:21:00.000-05:002016-08-03T11:21:02.329-05:00The Big Behavioral Picture?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An interesting take on cc by evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjNRtrZjkfE" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjNRtrZjkfE </a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13145511.post-50213284253338627272016-08-03T10:50:00.003-05:002016-08-03T10:50:36.495-05:00Risk Based Adapatation Plans<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Being Prepared for Climate Change<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>A Workbook for Developing<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13145511.post-61182979215954528492016-08-03T08:33:00.001-05:002016-08-03T08:43:19.537-05:00404.48<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">June 2016 CO2 level hit <span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; letter-spacing: -0.93184px;">404.48 ppm</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/carbon-dioxide/">http://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/carbon-dioxide/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And,an interesting video re the first 6 months of this year:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK7NV2YheGk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK7NV2YheGk</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13145511.post-90953640302312461982016-08-02T08:29:00.003-05:002016-08-02T08:29:57.176-05:00Climate Change May Be an Issue in the 2016 Presidential Race<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to this NYT article, it is in the "forefront"</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13145511.post-83956219645996426122016-08-01T08:14:00.003-05:002016-08-01T08:14:50.120-05:00Mega Cities & Adaptation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">90% of the earth's human population lives on or near coasts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An interesting lecture about climate change, resilience in the urban context.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13145511.post-78130340236096607682016-07-26T11:51:00.003-05:002016-07-26T11:55:00.687-05:00Minnesota Has a New State Office on Climate Change Mitigation<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Which reminds me, ah....California. Apparently climate change mitigation, adaptation, water tech are all part of the growth in the state's economy. Check out the information rich state portal page they have:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://climatechange.ca.gov/">http://climatechange.ca.gov/</a></span><br />
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