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.

This is the Anthropocene...

This is the Anthropocene, the geological age during which human activity has become the dominant influence on Earth's environment. We have created a climate crisis which by 2030 will be irreversible and by 2050 will result in an Extinction Level Event. 

"The greatest challenge the Anthropocene poses isn’t how the Defense Dept. should plan for resource wars, whether we should put up sea walls to protect Manhattan, or when we should abandon Miami. It won’t be addressed by buying a Prius, turning off the air conditioning, or signing a treaty. The greatest challenge we face is a philosophical one: understanding that this civilization is already dead. The sooner we confront our situation and realize that there is nothing we can do to save ourselves, the sooner we can get down to the difficult task of adapting, with mortal humility, to our new reality."

WHAT CLIMATE COLLAPSE ASKS OF US

Want to find a place to live that will be safe from climate change? Good luck!

Given that we cannot avoid a global climate catastrophe, how can we minimize the impact to ourselves from sea level rise, drought & water stress, wildfires, famine, economic collapse, lawlessness, etc? Read this and you'll see that the Pacific NW is a good place to be living compared to other regions.

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A 1.5 degree C rise in global surface temperature since the 1951-1980 period

This NASA Goddard chart (left) is the global average temp compared to the 1951-80 average. I gridded the orange bars for 1977 to 2019 (43 years), interpolated the temp for each year, built an Excel spreadsheet & graph and added an exponential trendline out 30 years to 2049 (right). The increase in global surface temp is 3.5 degrees C. This will be catastrophic for life on Earth!

Here is a description of what the world is like with a global temperature increase of 5.4 F (3 C) by the year 2050: At this point, the world’s ice sheets vanish; brutal droughts kill many of the trees in the Amazon rainforest (removing one of the world’s largest carbon offsets); and the planet plunges into a feedback loop of ever-hotter, ever-deadlier conditions.

Thirty-five percent of the global land area, and 55 percent of the global population, are subject to more than 20 days a year of lethal heat conditions, beyond the threshold of human survivability.

Meanwhile, droughts, floods and wildfires regularly ravage the land. Nearly one-third of the world’s land surface turns to desert. Entire ecosystems collapse, beginning with the planet’s coral reefs, the rainforest and the Arctic ice sheets. The world’s tropics are hit hardest by these new climate extremes, destroying the region’s agriculture and turning more than 1 billion people into refugees.

This mass movement of refugees — coupled with shrinking coastlines and severe drops in food and water availability — begin to stress the fabric of the world’s largest nations, including the United States. Armed conflicts over resources, perhaps culminating in nuclear war, are likely.

The result is outright chaos and perhaps the end of human global civilization as we know it.

WHAT CLIMATE COLLAPSE ASKS OF US

Climate change: Where we are in seven charts and what you can do to help

Climate change is set to cause major changes across the world: sea levels will rise, food production could fall and species may be driven to extinction.

The UN has warned that the world needs to limit climate change to below 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. But scientists say that keeping to the 1.5C target will require "rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes" in all aspects of society.

So how warm has the world got and what can we do about it?

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