Ocean acidification

Ocean acidification is the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's oceans, caused by the uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. It has been called the "evil twin of global warming" and "the other CO2 problem."

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The People of the Isle de Jean Charles Are Louisiana’s First Climate Refugees—but They Won’t Be the Last

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Good Day. It's 69 Degrees in the Antarctic.

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Ancient Antarctic ice melt caused extreme sea level rise 129,000 years ago – and it could happen again

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The 4 Most Important Global Warming Deadlines

The 4 Most Important Global Warming Deadlines

and Tipping Point Levels We Must NEVER Forget or, We Go Extinct

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Why we won't change in time - the oil and gas industry

If you want to understand why fighting global climate change is so tough, this book will help. Rachel Maddow (Ph.D., Politics, Oxford) is a great writer, and this is practically a page-turner.

Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth

If you read this book you'll understand that the corruption of our democracy began long before the 2016 election. The corruption of elected officials by oil money goes way back to John D. Rockefeller and his Standard Oil Trust in the late 19th century. And ever since the 1930s the U.S. has been propping up friendly oil-rich dictatorships (Saudi Arabia) and bringing down unfriendly ones (Iraq, Iran, Libya). It was inevitable that our own government would be compromised and corrupted in the process. The irony is that it's the burning of fossil fuels, petroleum and natural gas, that is the root cause of the global climate catastrophe that will ultimately be the cause our demise. What's that saying? "WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND."

As described in Rachel Maddow's best seller "BLOWOUT: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth", the Internet Research Agency (IRA) based in St. Petersburg, Russia is responsible for much of the disinformation found on the Internet.

The political theorist Hannah Arendt once wrote that the most successful totalitarian leaders of the 20th century instilled in their followers “a mixture of gullibility and cynicism.” When they were lied to, they chose to believe it. When a lie was debunked, they claimed they’d known all along—and would then “admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.” Over time, Arendt wrote, the onslaught of propaganda conditioned people to “believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true.”

The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President

The next 28 years... 2020 to 2048. A prophecy...

We're all focused on our everyday lives while the average global temperature is 1.0 degrees C. above the 1951-1980 average and rising. Our civilization is dead; we just don't realize it yet. Trump will get reelected in 2020 and declare himself President-for-Life in 2024. Four years later, in 2028, we'll be at a 1.5 degree C global temperature rise, climate change feedback loops will kick in with the release of methane from Arctic tundra and methane hydrates from the seafloor. Runaway global climate change will accelerate and twenty years later, in 2048, we will be at a 3.0-3.5 degree C global temperature rise and we'll finally realize what we have done. Sadly, it will be much too late.