The 1986 Lake Nyos Disaster occurred when volcanic carbon dioxide (CO2) gas erupted from beneath an African lake in Cameroon, bubbling to the surface, forming a deadly cloud. There was no huge eruption, no great boom or blast that evening. What resulted was like a scene from a horror movie. The deadly gas flowed downContinue reading “The Ignored and Forgotten Lake Nyos Disaster”
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The History of Climate Change in 10 Minutes
It’s taken nearly a century of research to convince the majority of the earth’s population that we humans are polluting the atmosphere and changing the climate of our own planet. Decades of data now shows that not only is climate change real, but that our disregard has now left us near the point of no return, with dire consequences ahead of us. As the earth heats up, climate change has now become the Climate Crisis. But how did we get to this point so fast? Let’s take a quick look back.