3 July 2019 — Climate & Capitalism
Warming the climate and polluting the sea is leading to explosive outbreaks of new infectious diseases
UK-based socialist Sarah Ensor blogs at Herring and Class Struggle. She worked in Iceland’s fishing industry for six years, and is researching the history of the working class in Iceland.
Drew Harvell
OCEAN OUTBREAK
Confronting the rising tide of marine disease
University of California Press, 2019
reviewed by Sarah Ensor
10 January 2019 — Climate & Capitalism
The oceans are heating up faster than predicted, and the speed is accelerating. Expect higher seas, stronger storms, and extreme precipitation.
Heat trapped by greenhouse gases is raising ocean temperatures faster than previously thought, concludes an analysis of four recent ocean-heating observations. The results provide further evidence that earlier claims of a slowdown or “hiatus” in global warming over the past 15 years were unfounded.
The New Dark Age 