Current CO2 concentration in the atmosphere

Boundaries and assumptions

One of the things I’ve decided to spend more time on lately is reading some of several metric tons of energy and environment books I have stacked around my house. I just finished Chris Wood’s Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America, which I’ll have more to say about shortly.

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Coral reefs and public awareness

Some very bad news about the state of the world’s coral reefs:

A downward trend tied to warming seas has not reversed and the world has now lost nearly one-fifth of its coral reefs, according to a global survey released Wednesday.

Much of the rest could be destroyed within 40 years by increasingly acidic seas if warming continues . . . → Read More: Coral reefs and public awareness