Reminder Of Environmental Perils

 I realize that we already have enough to worry about but there is a long-term environmental peril that really should be getting attention.

We are utterly dependent on oxygen but we are consistently, and permanently, lowering the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere. When we use hydrogen or hydrocarbons as fuel, we are increasing water at the expense of oxygen. When we extract iron from the earth, to make the vast amount of steel that is so essential to the modern world, it will eventually consume oxygen from the air when it turns to rust, which is iron oxide.

The original posting, "The Hydrogen And Iron Perils" is on the Progress Blog, June 2009.

http://www.markmeekprogress.blogspot.com/2009/06/hydrogen-peril.html?m=0

What I would like to do with science on this blog is to get everyone making discoveries. If we can go searching for Pokemon monsters then why can't we search for facts and connections that have never before been pointed out?

There is a tremendous amount of continuously-updated information on sites like Wikipedia. If you think you may have noticed a new fact or connection then you can easily check on Google if it has ever been pointed out before, if not then you have your discovery.

Remember that everyday, all around you, are things that have never before been pointed out.