An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

In July 2008, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing connected its rooftop pollutant monitor to a new Twitter account and began automatically tweeting its data. Using the Twitter handle @BeijingAir, the hourly tweets followed a simple and uniform format: date, time, pollutant type, concentration, and air quality index (AQI).

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What began on that day in the barn has grown to become The Climate Reality Project, an international nonprofit with headquarters in the U.S. and branches in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, India, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines, and Africa.

In fact, the oldest ice core records, from Antarctica, extend back 800,000 years. The U.S. National Ice Core Laboratory is home to more than 17,000 meters of ice from all over the world that can be used to understand the planet’s climate history

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we release into the atmosphere settles into the ocean, where it has already increased acidity by 30 percent) are leading to the death of coral reefs throughout the world. It is also disrupting the process by which coral polyps—and all sea creatures with shells—scavenge calcium carbonate from seawater and transform it into the hard structures necessary for their survival.

The combination of higher ocean temperatures and the growing acidification of ocean water (approximately one-third of the CO