About the Save the Oxygen Website

Origin

The creation of this website was inspired by three articles:

One: Global warming disaster could suffocate life on planet Earth, research shows. Formerly a University of Leicester presss release, now links to the paper itself since the press release is gone: "Mathematical Modelling of Plankton–Oxygen Dynamics Under the Climate Change" published in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology is at the end of the article. a press release from the University of Leicester (UK) on ‘Mathematical Modelling of Plankton–Oxygen Dynamics Under the Climate Change’ published in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology by Yadigar Sekerci and Sergei Petrovskii. There is a link for the abstract and article on the press release (Published 12-1-2015). This link provided the ultimate problem to be solved, obviously.

While it would take an uncertain longer period of time for the atmosphere to become oxygen poor, it's important to note that the problem has already arrived in the oceans. Falling oxygen levels are occurring due to warming water, which can hold less dissolved gases, weakening currents and the resulting increased stratification of ocean waters, and human-caused dead zones involving eutrophication and excessive algae blooms. The ocean is being affected much more quickly than the atmosphere (and already is) by these effects The hypoxic effects are occurring much faster in the ocean, and any further hypoxia induced by phytoplankton populations falling will only magnify the problem. I'm sure most people would rather not contemplate, if it could be avoided, a marine ecosystem where large chunks of the blue world are given over to anaerobic organisms alone.
Two: Three reasons why the Paris climate deal is a fraud by Jerome Roos at Roar Magazine on 12-14-2015. I would not call it a fraud, per se, but the problems with it outlined are very real, and grave. Among the problems is that only $100 billion was 'promised' by fully industrialized countries to aid the developing world in investing in sustainability and resilience boosting projects, against $5.3 trillion in annual energy subsidy (roughly 90% for fossil fuel use, see next item). Still, individuals, communities, small businesses, local governments, NGOs et al do have power and can use it.
Three: Fossil Fuel Subsidies Cost $5 Trillion Annually and Worsen Pollution: The International Monetary Fund notes that subsides for burning fossil fuels enrich the wealthy and make air pollution worse republished by Scientific American, by Daniel Cusick, ClimateWire on May 19, 2015. Speaks pretty well for itself.

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SaveTheOxygen.org's textual contents by Cooper Dozier are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

The JavaScript portion of the menu/submenu is licensed under the MIT License.

Contact

You can reach me at [email protected] . Let me know what you think of the site, or if you have suggestions or find errors.

Compatibility

As far as I can tell, this website works the same across all tested browsers (except Internet Explorer, see note below) including:

macOS 11: Safari 14, Chrome 88, Firefox 86, Edge 89

Windows 10: Edge 89, Chrome 88, Firefox 86

Android 9: Firefox 86, Firefox Focus 8.13 (86), Chrome 88, Edge 46, and DuckDuckGo 5.77

Except that the menu is a smidge sluggish on the Firefox browsers for Android, though not so sluggish you'd think it's not working, and in a couple cases a 1 pixel gap above or below a specific image. Don't recall which OS/browser had the gaps. This website has been designed as a mobile-first and responsive project.

Note on Internet Explorer

Note: The @font-face statements, and more importantly the expandable menu and submenu do not work in Internet Explorer 11. I am not going to fix this. You can open sites from Internet Explorer in Edge by pressing control+shift+e. Additionally, on Windows you can enable an 'Internet Explorer Mode' if you need it in Edge from Settings > Default Browser > Enable Internet Explorer Mode, and load pages/applications selectively from 'More Tools' in the Edge menu dropdown.

If you are still using Internet Explorer 11, you should know that As of November 2020, Microsoft Teams stopped supporting it, and in August 2021 Microsoft 365 apps and services will stop supporting it. IE 11 is the last version there will be, although as a Windows component it is still 'supported' (but not updated to support the modern Internet) until the end of support for your OS version. Additionally, support for Edge Legacy is going to end with no more security patches on March 9, 2021, so you should update to the new Edge if you have that. The new Edge is based on Chromium so if you have it you should have a version number close to 88 or 89 on desktop. See this Microsoft Tech Community blog post for more info.

Privacy

This site contains no trackers and does not use any cookies. There is a '__cfduid' cookie that comes from the Cloudflare service, but they say that this has always been used for bot detection and never has (and cannot) be used for user identification. In any case they are eliminating it on May 10th 2021 (though it may take up to 30 days for them to expire unless you clear your history). See this Cloudflare Blog post for more info.

Technology

This site contains HTML5, CSS3, one JavaScript file for the menu, and no other code (not counting sitemap.xml). The JavaScript file is only 85 lines when comments and blank lines are removed. Efforts were made to build it as a responsive and mobile first website, and to convert the CSS to SMACSS conventions (the last is incomplete). A small subset of the Pure CSS Framework is used, and Pure itself uses Normalize.css as its foundational layer.

Fonts are from Font Squirrel. Images, except for the banner, are derived from works on Unsplash or Wikimedia Commons. Image manipulation done with GIMP. Since late 2020, code development has been done in Visual Studio Code.

Image sources:

Backgrounds:
Crows image derived from Photo by narubono on Unsplash
Nautilus image derived from Photo by Shaun Low on Unsplash
Moss image derived from Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash
Bubbles image derived from Photo by Zach Lezniewicz on Unsplash
Coccolithophores phytoplankton image derived from Wikimedia Commons source
Gephyrocapsa oceanica phytoplankton image derived from Wikimedia Commons source
Other:
Banner image derived from scanned magazine images, text, and drawing on clear acetate, collaged with GIMP
Standard logo and low bandwidth logo derived from Wikimedia Commons sources depicting O2 (dioxygen, molecular oxygen), CO₂ (carbon dioxide), and HCO₃^- (bicarbonate ion)
Favicon.ico and Favicon.gif derived from bicarbonate ion image on Wikimedia commons