{"id":5830,"date":"2013-03-26T03:15:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T07:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=5830"},"modified":"2013-03-15T13:34:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:34:09","slug":"year-4-month-3-day-26-no-laughing-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-4-month-3-day-26-no-laughing-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 4, Month 3, Day 26: No Laughing Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newsday runs <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.newsday.com\/news\/human-climate-change-big-factor-in-somali-famine-1.4818996\">an AP story on the causes of the famine in Somalia.<\/a>  Guess what factor is accorded a central role?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>(AP) &#8212; Human-induced climate change contributed to low rain levels in East Africa in 2011, making global warming one of the causes of Somalia&#8217;s famine and the tens of thousands of deaths that followed, a new study has found.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time climate change was proven to be partially to blame for such a large humanitarian disaster, an aid group said Friday.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You should force yourself!  March 15:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The role played by climate change in the Somali famine deserves far more attention in our media and politics.  There are far too many people who&#8217;ve chosen to ignore the humanitarian costs of a transformed climate \u2014 some who think that climate science is a wacky conspiracy, some who believe that the impact of increased atmospheric CO2 won&#8217;t be felt in their comfortable air-conditioned chambers, some who dismiss any notion of planning for global heating&#8217;s effects as &#8220;too expensive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the acts of the Al-Shabab militants groups who hindered food distribution were deplorable, those extremists didn&#8217;t cause the 2011 droughts that brought on the famine in the first place.  That responsibility rests with us \u2014 the developed world \u2014 and our century-long fossil-fuel binge. Somalia&#8217;s misery is a harbinger of what the rest of the world can expect as the greenhouse effect gets worse, and we ignore it at our peril. <\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsday runs an AP story on the causes of the famine in Somalia. Guess what factor is accorded a central role? (AP) &#8212; Human-induced climate change contributed to low rain levels in East Africa in 2011, making global warming one of the causes of Somalia&#8217;s famine and the tens of thousands of deaths that followed, [&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":[733,253,1196],"class_list":["post-5830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-agriculture","tag-denialists","tag-famine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830","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=5830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5831,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions\/5831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}