{"id":2575,"date":"2011-01-16T21:51:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T01:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=2575"},"modified":"2011-01-16T21:51:13","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T01:51:13","slug":"year-2-month-1-day-17-say-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-1-day-17-say-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 1, Day 17: Say What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Times <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/theweatherbeat\/2013915447_warmyear12.html\">notices the NOAA report<\/a> (2010 ties 2005 as warmest year on record, breaks the record for wettest year, etc., etc.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you&#8217;ve been paying attention, you knew by last July that 2010 was going to break planetary weather records. And if you&#8217;re still paying attention, you&#8217;re anticipating that 2011 will be pretty hot and pretty extreme, too. Unfortunately, if you&#8217;re paying attention to climate change, you&#8217;re in the minority; most of our fellow citizens have internalized the notion that &#8220;the science isn&#8217;t settled,&#8221; thanks to our media&#8217;s readiness to &#8220;balance&#8221; every genuinely worried climate expert with a smooth-talking shill for the fossil fuel industry. The facts have been in for a long time (for example, a 1953 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine discussed atmospheric warming caused by CO2 emissions). And yet we have failed to act. Addicted to a culture of convenience, locked in cycles of conspicuous consumption, we are unwilling to make the hard choices on which our survival as a species is increasingly likely to depend.\u00a0 Hell, we can&#8217;t even <em>talk<\/em> about those choices and their consequences for our future and the futures of our children.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Times notices the NOAA report (2010 ties 2005 as warmest year on record, breaks the record for wettest year, etc., etc.) If you&#8217;ve been paying attention, you knew by last July that 2010 was going to break planetary weather records. And if you&#8217;re still paying attention, you&#8217;re anticipating that 2011 will be pretty [&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":[292,431],"class_list":["post-2575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-denialism","tag-noaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575","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=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}