{"id":2380,"date":"2010-12-03T13:06:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T17:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2010-12-03T13:06:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T17:06:38","slug":"month-12-day-4-she-did-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/month-12-day-4-she-did-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Month 12, Day 4: She Did WHAT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Juneau Empire (AK) runs an AP article on a just-issued report on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/stories\/120310\/sta_745153012.shtml\">Alaska&#8217;s strategy for preparing itself to deal with climate change<\/a>.  Buried in the article is this gem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The report is an outgrowth of an effort launched by former Gov. Sarah Palin, who formed a climate change task force to prepare a climate change strategy for Alaska. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As if we needed another demonstration of the disconnect between political &#8220;reality&#8221; and the facts of the world, along comes the news that Alaska&#8217;s Fish and Game Department has been working to quantify the effects of climate change on the state&#8217;s wildlife.  While the Department remains mum on the causes of this change (pssst! It&#8217;s human beings and their increasing emissions of greenhouse gases!) they have taken the brave step of acknowledging that the phenomenon exists and will have grave consequences for Alaska&#8217;s natural resources.  It is thought-provoking to realize that this report is the outcome of a process initiated by former Governor Palin, who appeared to recognize climate change as a threat in her bureaucratic incarnation while vociferously denying it in her role as Tea Party rabblerouser.   Even the willfully ignorant will eventually recognize global warming&#8217;s dangers \u2014 by which time they may be too late to protect themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Juneau Empire (AK) runs an AP article on a just-issued report on Alaska&#8217;s strategy for preparing itself to deal with climate change. Buried in the article is this gem: The report is an outgrowth of an effort launched by former Gov. Sarah Palin, who formed a climate change task force to prepare a climate [&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":[708,709,707],"class_list":["post-2380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-alaska","tag-even-a-blind-pig-finds-a-nut","tag-sarah-palin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380","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=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions\/2381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}