Meanwhile, in the western Pacific and eastern Indian oceans, islands such as New Guinea, Fiji and Tahiti discovered that fresh water had suddenly become a scarce commodity. At the same time, malaria infections had dropped by seventy percent as mosquitoes began to disappear from the jungles.

During Year 15 a climatologist in San Diego sat in front of his computer. The data he’d collected was now unambiguous and he found himself in dire need of a strong drink. He got one from a hotel lounge three blocks from his office, drank it quickly and then ordered a refill. He drank that one just as quickly, paid for them and went back to his office where he wrote an email to six fellow climatologists and the head of his department. In it, he stated the following:

Evaporation rates from the oceans of the world have plummeted over the last ten years. Cloud formation rates have also plummeted. Rainfall across the entire planet will diminish by 60% over the next five years and the interior sections of every continent on Earth will become deserts in the next twenty years. All of this is due to the reduction in free surface area of the oceans: the algae sheets have dropped the free evaporation levels by seventy percent.

The active ingredients of his two stiff drinks now firmly entrenched in his blood stream, he called a stockbroker and bought all of the stock he could afford in companies that made sun blockers. By Year 76, mankind was extinct, along with 97% of all other land dwelling animals. It’s a moot point exactly when the conquest of Earth by algae was completed.  

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