One thing you have to say for Donald Trump. He manages to suck all the oxygen out of a room. This post happens to be about oxygen and it isn’t about Trump, not directly. It’s a report that came out last week that, as these studies tend to do, is
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The Disaffected Lib: Why That’s Certainly Slimming
Only not, perhaps, in a good way. We, mankind, us, you, me – have so f#@ked up our oceans that the creatures who call them home are in a world of woe. That translates into real change. By the end of the century scientists warn that Atlantic Cod in the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Truth from the Sea
If there’s one thing climate change deniers steer well clear of, it’s the state of our oceans. They confine their lies to cherry-picked data about global warming of the atmosphere, a narrative that still has to be bolstered with mighty lies oft repeated, but they know not to mess with
Continue readingreeves report: Ocean Warming and Acidification will Crash Crabs’ Metabolism
Porcelain crab. (Image courtesy of Stillman’s Lab) BASED ON FUTURE CLIMATE SCENARIOS, researchers believe coastal ecosystems will see increased extremes in low tide temperature fluctuations and drops in pH levels associated with ocean acidification. This particular study looked at what impacts, if any, warmer water and higher acidity levels will
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: There’s This Story Making the Rounds…
It’s an item from Reuters that has been picked up by a number of newspapers, including The Globe & Mail. It concerns a study that found one species of algae has managed to adapt fairly quickly to warming and more acidic oceans. What’s interesting is that the authors of the study
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What Happens When Earth Says, "I’m Outta Here."
Earth may have had just about enough of us. One indication that we may be outstaying our planetary welcome is the spike in atmospheric greenhouse gases in 2013. Part of that reflects our increased use of fossil fuels. The other part is more worrisome by an order of magnitude. The
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Those Shellfish Are Talking to You. Can You Hear Them?
The eastern Pacific, from the Bering Sea to northern California, has been one of the world’s last remaining great fisheries. It’s a band of coastal ocean famous for its abundant salmon, cod, halibut and tuna but it’s also known for its bounty of crab of several varieties plus shellfish including
Continue reading350 or bust: Send Water Some Love On World Water Day
Tomorrow is World Water Day; the waters that nurture and sustain life on earth need our protection more than ever. * * World Water Day: Global Synchronized Water Ceremony
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Another Climate Change Calamity. This One is Personal.
Island Scallops is on the ropes. The company, which produces an astonishingly-good hybrid scallop, has just lost three years’ production to ocean acidification. As we’ve pumped ever more CO2 into the atmosphere, our oceans have absorbed increasing amounts of it, in turn acidifying. The more acidic water attacks the calcium in
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Now, When You Put It That Way…
All of us need to get a sense of what the world’s oceans mean to us, the role they play in our daily lives even if we live far inland in a place like Winnipeg, for example. Here’s one to chew on. The oxygen in every second breath you take
Continue reading350 or bust: Signs Of Change
I’ve been blogging about climate change since my conversion from being a climate change avoider to a climate activist/fossil fuel abolitionist in the fall of 2009. As a climate change avoider, I never watched An Inconvenient Truth; after all, it might be inconvenient to have to face my fear or
Continue reading350 or bust: Roz Savage: Stop Drifting, Start Rowing
Roz Savage has an amazing story to tell, about how she left the life that was expected of her, to become an ocean adventurer. Is she crazy? You decide: * Roz Savage, Ocean Rower
Continue readingEarthgauge Radio: Earthgauge Radio December 13 2012: Cancer in the workplace and the crisis of ocean acidification
Download: earthgauge-podcast-dec13-20122.mp3 This week on Earthgauge Radio, we’re talking about environmental health and ocean acidification. I have two interviews on the program today: Dr. James Brophy, co-author of a groundbreaking new study demonstrating that women working in particular occupations have an increased risk of developing breast cancer, likely due to exposure to toxic
Continue readingEarthgauge Radio: On Earthgauge Radio tomorrow: Getting cancer at work and the ticking timebomb of ocean acidification
Tomorrow on Earthgauge Radio, I am pleased to present a feature interview with Dr. James Brophy, who is the co-author of a groundbreaking new study demonstrating that women working in particular occupations have an increased risk of developing breast cancer. Their research found that women employed in the automotive plastics industry,
Continue readingDrive-by Planet: Ocean acidification: global warming’s ‘evil twin’
Anthropogenic (man-made) carbon dioxide is responsible for adding to global warming and triggering a host of attendant environmental problems. CO2 has also contributed to a dramatic spike in the acid levels of the oceans – an effect that has been cast as the ‘evil twin’ of climate change – and
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