{"id":2606,"date":"2011-01-23T19:49:20","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T23:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2011-01-23T19:52:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-23T23:52:49","slug":"year-2-month-1-day-24-the-farmer-is-the-man-who-feeds-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-1-day-24-the-farmer-is-the-man-who-feeds-us-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 1, Day 24: The Farmer Is The Man Who Feeds Us All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal Gazette reports on a new study by the Universal Ecological Fund (sounds like hippie tree-huggers to me) that predicts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/technology\/Climate+change+will+push+food+prices+report+says\/4133801\/story.html\">higher food costs as a consequence of climate change<\/a>.  Damn.  Jeez, <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> counterintuitive, all right.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One wonders how many warnings can be ignored by climate-change deniers.  The Universal Ecological Fund report simply applies common sense to the relationship of agriculture and weather patterns; while alarming, its analysis is hardly surprising.  If the weather is more unusual and extreme, crop failures will be more likely.  Climatologists&#8217; predictions have been repeatedly vindicated over the past several decades; any errors are almost invariably ones of underestimation.  At this point ignoring climate science requires a readiness to embrace a bewilderingly complex conspiracy theory in which scientists all over the globe are attempting to &#8220;usher in a socialist world order&#8221; or some similar farrago of nonsense.  The facts are in: climate change is here; it&#8217;s real; humans (especially industrialized humans) are causing it; it will make our lives enormously more complex, inconvenient and expensive in the coming centuries \u2014 and the costs of action are dwarfed by those of inaction.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal Gazette reports on a new study by the Universal Ecological Fund (sounds like hippie tree-huggers to me) that predicts higher food costs as a consequence of climate change. Damn. Jeez, that&#8217;s counterintuitive, all right. One wonders how many warnings can be ignored by climate-change deniers. The Universal Ecological Fund report simply applies common [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,196],"tags":[733,292,760],"class_list":["post-2606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-gardening","tag-agriculture","tag-denialism","tag-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606","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=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2635,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions\/2635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}