

At this point in time the oceans are all warming rapidly, given that in past, as best we understand it, the composition of the atmosphere has rarely changed as much as fast as it has in the past couple hundred years, and the ocean temperatures are doing the same in that they are also changing at a pace rarely seen in the historical record. Some lucky places in the ocean are warming even faster than the overall rapid temperature change; while a pot of water on the stove might only have bubbles just starting to boil into sight only on the bottom, the whole lot is getting hot.
Shortly after we were married, my wife’s doc told her she would never get pregnant. I had had an unusual dream previous to this statement that had told me otherwise, and shared the details of said vision with my wife, including the gender and general description of what is now our 16 year old son. Every part of that particular dream was spot on, and I just knew it in every fiber of my being.