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A Drop in the Ocean: Turning The Metaphor Of The Minimum Into The Maximum

A Drop in the Ocean: Turning The Metaphor Of The Minimum Into The Maximum

October 2, 2025
Russ George
And Yet It Works!, Bring Back The Fish

Ocean pasture restoration flips the old “drop in the ocean” metaphor on its head. By restoring missing mineral dust with nature-based techniques, we revive marine ecosystems, combat acidification, and cool the climate—proving every single drop and mote of dust can be made to truly count.

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climate change torpedoes

The War of Words – Torpedoing Vital Climate Solution Work

September 21, 2025
Russ George
News, Propaganda

The term ‘Ocean Iron Fertilization’ is more than just inaccurate—it’s a weaponized word designed to shut down debate. This op-ed dismantles the misleading analogy and argues for a scientifically honest framework of ‘Iron Diminishment’ and ‘Replenishment’ to reframe the conversation around restoring our oceans.

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California Wildfires Map

California’s Vanishing Sardines, Salmon, and Seabirds Are Suffering From The Same Cause As Wildfires

August 22, 2025
Russ George
Good News For The Planet

A Call for Ocean Restoration To Bring Back the Cooling Clouds, Rain, Water, Fish, and Wildlife! California’s Twin Crises: Collapse of Plants at Sea and…

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Iberian Wildfires Aug 2025

Why Have Missing Sardines Of The Iberian Peninsula Produced The Worst Wildfires In History

August 19, 2025
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

Spain faces its worst wildfire season in 30 years, with 40 active blazes and more than 30,000 evacuated A Call for Ocean Restoration To Bring…

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Ocean Pasture Albedo Production: A Nature-Based Climate Solution Delivering Gigatonnes of CO₂e Mitigation Annually

Ocean Pasture Albedo Production: A Nature-Based Climate Solution Delivering Gigatonnes of CO₂e Mitigation Annually

August 9, 2025
Russ George
And Yet It Works!, Get Your Geek On

Each Ocean Pasture To Deliver Over a Gigatonne of CO₂e Mitigation Annually Our planet’s oceans cover approximately 71% of Earth’s surface and are home to…

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trees communicate

The Speed of Sentience: Learning to Listen to the Slow Life All Around Us

July 3, 2025
Russ George
Get Your Geek On

Humans are quick thinkers. Our brains fire signals at over 100 meters per second. We humans have a most peculiar and often  debilitating form of…

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Gobeki Tepi

The Awakening of Intelligence: How AI Tools Like ChatGPT Are Breaking Through The Paywalls of Knowledge

June 29, 2025
Russ George
Get Your Geek On

Is there a difference between Human Intelligence HI and Artificial Intelligence AI? Who benefits from the fomentation of the idea that AI is something to…

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Ocean pH

Ocean Acidification Thresholds Force A Choice – Doomsday or Bloomsday?

June 10, 2025
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, Good News For The Planet

Crossing the Acid Line: Why Ocean Recovery Depends on Restoring Nature’s Mineral Dust Cycle By Russ George – Forest and Ocean Ecologist, Experimental Physicist, and…

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guanacate

The Silent Suffocation: How Rising CO₂ Levels Are Killing Insects In Their Nurseries

June 6, 2025
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

The Puzzle of Insect Decline in a Protected Paradise In Costa Rica’s Guanacaste Conservation Area, an ecological paradise, a tragic ecological mystery has been unfolding….

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Stork babies

How the Baby Boom Doomed the Bloom

May 16, 2025
Russ George
Get Your Geek On

From Human Bloom to Ocean Gloom It all began with babies. Lots of them. Good news for the planet at the end of this post!…

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honey bee

The Bees Are Speaking: Asking Us to Let Them Breathe

May 15, 2025
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, Get Your Geek On

My Grandchildren’s Bees Are Dying. And the world that notices beehaves badly By blaming pesticides and parasites—we miss the real, rising threat. New physiological meta-model…

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Nature, Not Noxious Sulfur: A Market-Savvy Path to Cooling the Planet

Nature, Not Noxious Sulfur: A Market-Savvy Path to Cooling the Planet

May 9, 2025
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, Good News For The Planet

Restoring the Albedo of Cooling Clouds Needs Restored Fresh Air Not Air Pollution As policymakers, financiers, and tech leaders search for multi-billion dollar business plans…

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Don Quixote by Octavio Ocampo

“Too Late” Is Just Another Excuse

May 8, 2025
Russ George
And Yet It Works!

Don’t Forget Your Mother Nature I’ve spent more than 50 years working in the service of nature—restoring forests, reviving lost ocean pastures, and trying to…

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Bugs are in Dire Straits

Sometime Soon You’re the Bug: How CO₂, Clean Windshields, and the Death of Rock’s Metaphor Reveal a Planet in Peril

May 3, 2025
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, News

Our Bugs Are In Dire Straits There was a time, not long ago, when your summer road trip wasn’t complete without the smeared remains of…

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Global Warming

Climate Science Has Ignored The Ocean Cooling Crisis

May 1, 2025
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

Lost ocean cooling pump has heated the planet more than greenhouse gases! “If you lose your air conditioner in a heatwave, your house doesn’t just…

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yin and yang plants on earth and in oceans

The Cost of Conscience: Why Waiting to Profit Before Saving the Planet is the Ultimate Tragedy

April 30, 2025
Russ George
And Yet It Works!

Do the right thing, and do it now. Your reward will be as if you have dipped yourself in holy waters and your soul will…

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Shading the planet

The Oceans Are Dying Outside the Climate Emergency Room

April 27, 2025
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

Blocking The Sun To Cool Planet Earth Might Instead Finish Off Planet Ocean. Don’t Block the Sun – Restore the Oceans First The oceans, covering…

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The Ocean Acidification Crisis Isn’t Just About CO₂ From Bad Behaviour—It’s About Collapse Of Ocean Pasture Life

The Ocean Acidification Crisis Isn’t Just About CO₂ From Bad Behaviour—It’s About Collapse Of Ocean Pasture Life

April 24, 2025
Russ George
Get Your Geek On, Propaganda

We’ve done the math and Ocean Acidification is being driven more by the collapse of marine photosynthesis than by our carbon emissions. Here’s why that…

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It's Not the Weather: The Mystery of the Warm Blob is Due to Collapse of North Pacific Ocean Plankton Pastures

It’s Not the Weather: The Mystery of the Warm Blob is Due to Collapse of North Pacific Ocean Plankton Pastures

April 23, 2025
Russ George
Antagonists, Bad News For The Planet

Truth in Science Rules, Memes Drool In science, precision and integrity are paramount. Natural phenomena—especially those as consequential as the North Pacific’s “Warm Blob”—must be…

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OPR Benefits

Listing Climate Restoration Benefits of Ocean Pasture Restoration

April 23, 2025
Russ George
And Yet It Works!, Get Your Geek On, Good News For The Planet

12+++ Steps To Remember About Why You Should Cherish A Healthy Ocean Our oceans, 71% of our Blue Planet make 90% of our oxygen and…

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  • A Drop in the Ocean: Turning The Metaphor Of The Minimum Into The Maximum
  • The War of Words – Torpedoing Vital Climate Solution Work
  • California’s Vanishing Sardines, Salmon, and Seabirds Are Suffering From The Same Cause As Wildfires
  • Why Have Missing Sardines Of The Iberian Peninsula Produced The Worst Wildfires In History
  • Ocean Pasture Albedo Production: A Nature-Based Climate Solution Delivering Gigatonnes of CO₂e Mitigation Annually
  • The Speed of Sentience: Learning to Listen to the Slow Life All Around Us
  • The Awakening of Intelligence: How AI Tools Like ChatGPT Are Breaking Through The Paywalls of Knowledge
  • Ocean Acidification Thresholds Force A Choice – Doomsday or Bloomsday?
  • The Silent Suffocation: How Rising CO₂ Levels Are Killing Insects In Their Nurseries
  • How the Baby Boom Doomed the Bloom
  • The Bees Are Speaking: Asking Us to Let Them Breathe
  • Nature, Not Noxious Sulfur: A Market-Savvy Path to Cooling the Planet
  • “Too Late” Is Just Another Excuse
  • Sometime Soon You’re the Bug: How CO₂, Clean Windshields, and the Death of Rock’s Metaphor Reveal a Planet in Peril
  • Climate Science Has Ignored The Ocean Cooling Crisis
  • The Cost of Conscience: Why Waiting to Profit Before Saving the Planet is the Ultimate Tragedy
  • The Oceans Are Dying Outside the Climate Emergency Room
  • The Ocean Acidification Crisis Isn’t Just About CO₂ From Bad Behaviour—It’s About Collapse Of Ocean Pasture Life
  • It’s Not the Weather: The Mystery of the Warm Blob is Due to Collapse of North Pacific Ocean Plankton Pastures
  • Listing Climate Restoration Benefits of Ocean Pasture Restoration
  • The Ocean Pasture Pump That Powers Through Ocean Stratification Like A Monster Truck At A Demolition Derby
  • A 4.25 Sigma Miracle: How Ocean Restoration Triggered a Historic Pink Salmon Boom
  • THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RESISTANCE TO OCEAN PASTURE DECLINE
  • The Joyful Necessity of Togetherness: Communication as the Soul of Life

Interesting Snippets

Often one cannot catch the unknown in a net of the known. - anon

"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such trifling investment of fact." Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

"It's like religion. Heresy in science is thought of as a bad thing, whereas it should be just the opposite." - Thomas Gold

Unnamed Law: If it happens, it must be possible.

" If you steal from one person, well they call that plagarism. I steal from everyone, they call that research. - Woody Guthrie

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”

- Thomas Pynchon

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. - Arthur C. Clarke's First Law

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. - H. Poincare

"Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature." - Michael Faraday

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. - Max Planck

Corollary: Science advances funeral by funeral.

A man with a new idea is a crank until he succeeds. - Mark Twain

Never attribute to conspiracy that which is adequately explained by stupidity. - R. George

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are that good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. - Howard Aiken

I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here ... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped. - U.S. Senator Simon Cameron, on the Smithsonian Institute (1901)

The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who's doing it!  The Roman Rule

 "I never make predictions, especially about the future" - Casey Stengle

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