As the Bostonian Fall is finally starting to show with mild cold weather way past the middle of the official season, a report from a group of 160 scientists from 23 countries  just announced that the planet has already reached its first major tipping point: the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. This is mainly because of the rapidly rising marine temperatures - the Earth atmosphere is hotter so 90% of the heat is absorbed by the ocean  - but also due to the ocean aci

Greetings at the end of (another mild) Bostonian winter. Not only this past January was the warmest on record, but we have also just...