{"id":567,"date":"2010-01-24T09:03:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T13:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=567"},"modified":"2010-01-24T09:03:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T13:03:48","slug":"day-24-to-the-local-murdoch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/day-24-to-the-local-murdoch\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 24: To The Local Murdoch"},"content":{"rendered":"

After reading Wade Norris’ excellent piece on insurance companies’ response to climate change<\/a>, I thought I’d write to Boston’s own Murdoch-owned newspaper, the Herald. My challenge is to use short words and short sentences.<\/p>\n

\nIt’s easy to deny global warming. Just look out the window and point to the snow, right? Well, If that’s how to do it, then I can deny my baldness by pointing to my nose hairs. The facts about global climate change are pretty scary, and lots of people don’t want to believe it’s happening at all, while some don’t want to believe humans are causing it. But covering our eyes and saying “Does not!” is the response of a child, not a grown-up. Perhaps we should look instead at the response of companies like State Farm Insurance, which announced this week that it won’t issue or renew policies for buildings and structures on North Carolina’s barrier islands \u2014 because global heating is raising ocean levels and increasing the risk of catastrophic storms. It’s going to be harder to deny the climate crisis when it’s costing us hundreds of billions of dollars. State Farm gets it. When will the majority of Americans?<\/p>\n

Warren Senders\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe they’ll print it because I made a funny joke ha ha he mentioned nose hairs ha ha!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After reading Wade Norris’ excellent piece on insurance companies’ response to climate change, I thought I’d write to Boston’s own Murdoch-owned newspaper, the Herald. My challenge is to use short words and short sentences. It’s easy to deny global warming. Just look out the window and point to the snow, right? Well, If that’s how […]<\/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":[164,166,167,165],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-boston-herald","tag-insurance-companies","tag-murdoch","tag-nose-hairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","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=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}