{"id":2554,"date":"2011-01-10T20:51:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T00:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2011-01-10T20:51:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T00:51:07","slug":"year-2-month-1-day-11-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-1-day-11-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 1, Day 11: The Gift That Keeps On Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Marshall study is an excellent hook for letters.  This one went to the Montreal Gazette, which did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/technology\/Another+century+emissions+will+fuel+years+climate+change+Study\/4082719\/story.html\">a pretty good report on the team&#8217;s work.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dr. Shawn Marshall and the rest of his team are optimists, which is hard to remember when we read their study on the likely long-term effects of climate change over the next millennium.  Their forecasts presume that our planet&#8217;s politicians begin acting like thoughtful adults facing a serious problem, rather than squabbling ten-year-olds attempting to avoid responsibility.  If (and it&#8217;s a mighty big &#8220;if&#8221;) our leaders were ready to make genuine commitments to significant reductions in greenhouse emissions, we can expect nothing more severe than Marshall&#8217;s best-case scenario (no more Venice, no more Manhattan).  Failure to curb our world-consuming ways, on the other hand, may lead to what biologists euphemistically call an &#8220;evolutionary bottleneck,&#8221; with our own species one of the likely victims.  We must act responsibly and rapidly to ensure that the ravaged world of Marshall&#8217;s predictions is a worst-case future rather than humanity&#8217;s last, best or only hope.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marshall study is an excellent hook for letters. This one went to the Montreal Gazette, which did a pretty good report on the team&#8217;s work. Dr. Shawn Marshall and the rest of his team are optimists, which is hard to remember when we read their study on the likely long-term effects of climate change [&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":[746,744,745],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-long-term-prediction","tag-millennium-forecasts","tag-shawn-marshall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","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=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2560,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/2560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}