{"id":1203,"date":"2010-04-14T23:09:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T03:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2010-04-14T23:10:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T03:10:25","slug":"1203","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/1203\/","title":{"rendered":"Month 4, Day 15: Beetlemania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got all the info used for this letter from a new series at Kos, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2010\/4\/14\/857249\/-New-series:-This-week-in-climate-change\">&#8220;This Week In Climate Change.&#8221; <\/a> Definitely read it all.<\/p>\n<p>Part of that piece was a link to Newsweek&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/236179\">short article on the pine beetle in the American West<\/a>, which is killing forests with brutal efficiency.  So I used the Newsweek piece as the hook for a letter.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thanks for giving a closer look at what global warming will be bringing us in the years to come.  The dying forests left in the pine beetle&#8217;s wake are just one of many phenomena which mark the planet&#8217;s rising temperatures.  Some of the other things we can expect to see: more weather anomalies and storm activity (such as this winter&#8217;s freak blizzard in Washington, DC); higher pollen counts (severely affecting many asthmatics); shrinking populations of sensitive wildlife (Antarctica&#8217;s Adelie penguin population has diminished to a third of its 1980 level); more and more invasive species replacing local flora and fauna; irregular and unpredictable monsoons (potentially devastating food production worldwide)&#8230;the list goes on and on.  It is time to stop treating climate change as a forum for political gamesmanship, and to start addressing it for what it is: a slow motion catastrophe that constitutes the most urgent existential threat humanity has ever faced.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got all the info used for this letter from a new series at Kos, &#8220;This Week In Climate Change.&#8221; Definitely read it all. Part of that piece was a link to Newsweek&#8217;s short article on the pine beetle in the American West, which is killing forests with brutal efficiency. So I used the Newsweek [&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":[405,406],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-newsweek","tag-pine-beetle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}