{"id":1652,"date":"2010-06-28T23:24:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T03:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2010-06-28T23:24:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T03:24:43","slug":"month-6-day-29-harry-reid-mensch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/month-6-day-29-harry-reid-mensch\/","title":{"rendered":"Month 6, Day 29: Harry Reid, Mensch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2010\/6\/28\/880099\/-Reid-Calls-The-Bluff-Of-The-Climate-Peacocks\">this is looking better and better<\/a>.  I finished faxing my Friday letter to all the Senators over the weekend (there were four senatorial fax machines out of order, so I didn&#8217;t quite make it), but if that DK article is on the level, Harry Reid is really sticking his neck out here.  So I wrote him a letter of support.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Senator Reid,<\/p>\n<p>I write to express my enthusiastic support for your plan to get a strong climate bill passed before the August recess.  The facts and figures from around the world tell a terrifying story: the climate has reached a serious &#8220;tipping point,&#8221; and there is absolutely no time to waste in bringing about very serious reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Even with emissions reductions at the highest level that is politically possible, we (all of us on the planet) are looking forward to a world that will be drastically less livable; a world in which a steady climate cannot be taken for granted; a world with more unexpected torrential floods and more sustained droughts.  We&#8217;re past the point where we can get back to the climate you and I grew up in.<\/p>\n<p>But if we act soon, and act strongly, we may be able to give our children&#8217;s children a world they can grow up in.  That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s absolutely crucial that a strong climate bill get passed in the Senate as soon as possible \u2014 and that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m writing to support you.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for what you are doing.  Please don&#8217;t let denialists and  cynical opportunists weaken this bill.  We can&#8217;t afford inaction, we can&#8217;t afford delay \u2014 and we can&#8217;t afford Republican obstructionism.  Stand firm.<\/p>\n<p>Yours Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this is looking better and better. I finished faxing my Friday letter to all the Senators over the weekend (there were four senatorial fax machines out of order, so I didn&#8217;t quite make it), but if that DK article is on the level, Harry Reid is really sticking his neck out here. So I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[427,277],"class_list":["post-1652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-climate-bill","tag-harry-reid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1654,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}