We departed Muscat and are sailing to Mumbai, India.  The   Arabian Peninsula  is a largely ignored part of the world by most visitors.  Under 1.25 million square miles are most of the world's oil.  It is relatively small compared to the USA, which has 3.8 msm and 335 million people.  The AP has a population of 86 million. Saudi Arabia  36.5 million Yeman  33.7 million UAE  9.4 million Oman  4.6 million Kuwait  4.3 million Qatar  2.7 million Bahrain  1.5 million The cities with the two largest population are in Saudi Arabia:  Riyadh 7.5 million and Jeddah 4.8 million. However, in 1950 the population was only 9.5 million, mostly Bedouins in the desert.  Then oil was discovered,  first in Iran in 1908  by the British.  But the story of oil goes back to 600 BC, when the Chinese first found this liquid.  More recently, there was Colonel Edwin Drake's 1859 oil well in Pennsylvania, and within a decade came John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company.  Then in 1901, Spindletop i

  There is a glacier in Antarctica that is melting away and could completely collapse in as soon as  three years , but more probably within  150 years.   Thwaites Glacier in Western Antarctica is around 74,000 square miles, roughly the size of Florida, and from 2600 to 3900 feet deep.  This glacier has already lost a trillion tons of ice since 2000, with an annual ice loss that has doubled in 30 years.  It is also called the  Doomsday Glacier  for if it escapes into the ocean, after quick melting, the  sea level could rise by over two feet , according to  Ted Scambos .  That would doom places like Waikiki, and also New York City and Sydney, among a whole coastal range of cities around the world. Worse, if this begins to occur, then the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet could go, doubling the sea level rise to 6 feet.  There is 8 times as much ice in the Antarctic than Greenland, and 50 times as much as in the mountain glaciers of the world. Most of the water on Earth is saline ( 97%) , w

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