{"id":3879,"date":"2011-09-01T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T04:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2011-08-29T00:10:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T04:10:13","slug":"year-2-month-9-day-1-variations-on-a-theme-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-9-day-1-variations-on-a-theme-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 9, Day 1: Variations On A Theme II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The August 28 Boston Herald addresses Irene with <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/news\/national\/general\/view\/20110828hurricane_irene_leads_to_8_deaths\/srvc=home&#038;position=recent\">an AP article listing the people who\u2019ve been killed so far along the storm\u2019s path<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad the planetary environment isn\u2019t a missing white woman.  So I sent them this version of the same concept on August 28:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If our media handled hurricanes as they&#8217;ve handled climate change over the past few decades, we&#8217;d be deafened by choruses of &#8220;hoax,&#8221; gratuitous mockery of storm warnings, and bland assertions that &#8220;scientists disagree&#8221; on the existence of tropical storms.<\/p>\n<p>       And if we discussed climate change the way we&#8217;re discussing Irene, our media would regularly update current threat levels, we&#8217;d disseminate advice on preparation, and plans for handling the future&#8217;s extreme weather events would be on everybody&#8217;s lips.<\/p>\n<p>        Extreme weather is short-term, fitting the needs of our 24-hour news cycle; climate is long-term and won&#8217;t adjust to our national case of ADD.  But if we don&#8217;t substantially address climate change, the coming centuries&#8217; news will be all weather, all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The August 28 Boston Herald addresses Irene with an AP article listing the people who\u2019ve been killed so far along the storm\u2019s path. Too bad the planetary environment isn\u2019t a missing white woman. So I sent them this version of the same concept on August 28: If our media handled hurricanes as they&#8217;ve handled 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],"tags":[980,998,644],"class_list":["post-3879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-analogies","tag-hurricane","tag-media-irresponsibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879","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=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3880,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions\/3880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}