A little over a year ago, I posted some information about the rapid rate of ocean acidification now occurring. It’s time for a re-visit. Last week’s issue of Nature included not one, but two news items on ocean acidification, and… Read More »Acidifying Oceans – The Accumulating Science Tells a Tale of Global Stupidity, Shortsightedness and Future Loss
On May 9th 2013, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere atop Mauna Loa exceeded 400ppm for the first time since recording commenced in 1958. It was last at this level over 3 million years ago, before our wise human… Read More »400ppm, a milestone or a nail in our shared coffin? Thoughts on environment.
I’ve discovered some interesting recent reports dealing with two aspects of the global environmental crisis – the impacts of global biodiversity loss, and the extent of global overfishing, or perhaps, the impacts of our foolishness and our greed. We seem… Read More »Loss of pollinators and extent of overfishing – our impacts on the world are large and getting worse