{"id":2932,"date":"2011-03-08T00:41:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T04:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2011-03-08T00:41:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T04:41:46","slug":"year-2-month-3-day-8-and-we-shiver-when-the-hot-winds-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-3-day-8-and-we-shiver-when-the-hot-winds-blow\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 3, Day 8: And We Shiver When The (Hot) Winds Blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Times runs an AP story detailing a new study co-authored by Richard Waring, a tree expert.  <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2014357026_apordisappearingpinesclimate.html\">Climate change is going to destroy the habitat of the lodgepole pine<\/a>, one of the most important trees in the Pacific Northwest:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Scientists have developed a computer model that predicts the lodgepole pine &#8211; one of the most common trees at high elevations in the Cascades and Rockies &#8211; will be largely driven out of the Northwest by 2080 due to the warming climate.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A more extensive version of the same article can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenwichtime.com\/news\/article\/Study-Lodgepole-pine-gone-from-NW-by-2080-1035059.php\">greenwichtime.com<\/a>.  Sent February 28:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The &#8220;skeptics&#8221; who continue to obfuscate and deny the ominous realities of global climate change will respond predictably to the just-published study showing the decimation of Lodgepole pine habitat within the coming century due to increasing temperatures.  Some will claim that computer models cannot be trusted, some will simply say, &#8220;Who cares about trees?&#8221;, and some will claim it&#8217;s part of a widespread conspiracy to imprison SUV drivers on behalf of a New World Order.  A scientifically literate reader could respond as follows: 1 &#8211; we trust computer models all the time throughout our civilization, 2 &#8211; those trees form important habitat for thousands of animal and plant species and have played important roles in human history as well, and, 3 &#8211; aside from being a paranoid delusion, such a worldwide cabal of research scientists is exponentially more improbable than the idea that human greenhouse emissions are drastically affecting our atmosphere, our climate and our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Times runs an AP story detailing a new study co-authored by Richard Waring, a tree expert. Climate change is going to destroy the habitat of the lodgepole pine, one of the most important trees in the Pacific Northwest: Scientists have developed a computer model that predicts the lodgepole pine &#8211; one of the [&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],"tags":[814,813,253,688],"class_list":["post-2932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-computer-models","tag-deforestation","tag-denialists","tag-scientific-consensus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932","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=2932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2990,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions\/2990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}