<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Trevor<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">First, for a variety of reasons, I will be sharply reducing the number of my posts to Missoula Community News</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And I get what Annie said, and have no problem with Annie, and understand why she — and you — are outraged by my post “I can’t breathe” — if ocean fish could speak</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I decided not to get into a debate about it on MCN, but I did tell Annie that my post came from an old and well-known story about rising ocean heat.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I told her that, as the ocean warms up, fish need more of its oxygen. Trouble is, as water warms, it loses oxygen. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The result, as a fisheries scientist put it some years ago, is suffocation.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I had that suffocation very much in mind when posting "I can't breathe" -- if ocean fish could speak. It seemed appropriate.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And I assumed it was an <i class="">everybody-knows-it</i> kind of thing</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Annie had and has no way to know how much I share her outrage over the entrenched, systematic racism behind the violence including police murder of George Floyd and many others of many skin colors. But she can tell you that I told her my opinion that the fossil fuel industry has its knees on all our necks</div></body></html>