Jeffrey Short

On March 24, 1989, in the dead of Alaska night, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez struck Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, spilling more than 11 million gallons of crude oil into the frigid Alaska water.

We've all seen the headlines about melting sea ice in the Arctic. It is tangible harbinger EVIDENCE of the enormous quantities of carbon dioxide, or CO2, our industrial world has pumped into the atmosphere.