“Low-oxygen” areas of ocean off the Pacific Northwest coast are “the new norm.”

Caused by global warming, you see – but pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Well, it turns out the combination of global warming and human decimation of fish populations has led to a population explosion of the deadliest creature on the planet. Oh, and they’re migrating towards land masses.

See also: the “rise of slime,” AKA the toxic fireweed thriving under warmer-water conditions. This would be great news except for the part where it’s so toxic it can kill both us and also anything in the ocean we might be inclined to eat.

I remembered reading a while back about Nanosolar, the company trying to perfect extremely cheap, non-silicon based solar cells. And it occurred to me yesterday, “hey, how is that going, anyhow?”

After some Googling, it turns out that the answer to that question is very, very good indeed. The dawn of individual power generation is very nearly upon us, and it can’t come fast enough.

(Mind you, the United States alone uses over three terawatts of energy at peak hours right now, so, yeah, being able to produce 430 megawatts of generation capacity per year is, you know, not nearly enough. On the other hand, though, now that there’s a cheap model for people to copy, nanosolar production can be very easily advanced through government incentive programs. Imagine about a hundred of these factories and suddenly you’re producing 43 gigs of generation capacity every year; that’s the United States taken care of in a decade with room to spare. And that’s before someone unscrupulous just steals the technology outright and starts putting up factories in China.)

British Airways is flying empty planes across the Atlantic, wasting fuel and creating tonnes of CO2, in order to not let other airlines get the takeoff and landing slots at the airport.

Someone tell me again about how voluntary emissions reduction is the answer to the global warming crisis, please?

China’s starting to publicly threaten the dumping of its American dollar reserves.

(In other bad news from China, the Yangtze river dolphin is extinct.)