June 8, '09: Ted Danson weighs in- Commentary: World's biggest fish are dying - CNN.com

I became an ocean activist in 1987. It was the fifth year of "Cheers" and my family moved into a neighborhood that was on the water, in Santa Monica, California. One day I took my daughters to the beach to go swimming, but it was "closed" and I couldn't answer my daughter's question why.

That's really how it started. That and "Cheers" was paying me a lot of money and I felt I had better be responsible with it. So, I started to get involved.
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The chemistry of the oceans is changing as they absorb 11 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide a year, and scientists say the acidifying waters will make it impossible for coral reefs, the nurseries of the sea, to grow. At the current rate of acidification, corals, sea snails and other calcium-carbonate-requiring life forms could begin to dissolve by the middle of the century, with potentially catastrophic results. Shellfish and fish will be in deep trouble as well.

Iowa Corn Indy 250 notes: Iowa ethanol in tanks in Newton | DesMoinesRegister.com | The Des Moines Register

So was that really Iowa-produced ethanol being pumped into Indy cars Sunday from a tanker with giant letters promoting Brazilian ethanol?

Yes, it was.

IndyCar has a contract to use a Brazilian/U.S. ethanol blend for other stops during the season. It's a sticky situation, though, in Iowa, where the Iowa Corn Growers Association is the title sponsor of the race.

"I haven't got out and sniffed the nozzles," Iowa Corn Growers spokesperson Edith Munro said, "but that's the contract."

'Worst Case' Scenario: New Report Says World Is Warming Faster than Thought - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Schellnhuber, who is also a climate consultant for the German government, says he is worried "that we still aren't seeing a large portion of the unavoidable global warming." Dirt particles in the atmosphere, especially sulphate aerosols, have created a certain cooling effect and has prevented a stronger temperature increase at the moment. "If we were to ever install sulphur filters all over the world, then we would already be at 2.5 degree warming," the physicist said.

The new report paints a picture of rising sea levels -- fueled by rapidly melting polar ice caps -- for centuries. "Thus, the changes current generations initiate in the climate will directly influence our descendents long into the future. In fact, global average surface temperature will hardly drop in the first thousand years after greenhouse gas emissions are cut to zero."

This helpful Reuters photo is included.

Did CO2 really kill this fish?  Couldn't similar pictures have been taken somewhere on Earth every single day over the last billion years?