{"id":3225,"date":"2011-05-15T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T04:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2011-05-04T22:41:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T02:41:01","slug":"year-2-month-5-day-15-double-uh-oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-5-day-15-double-uh-oh\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 5, Day 15: Double Uh-Oh."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/environment\/arctic-warming-to-boost-rise-of-sea-levels\/2011\/05\/03\/AFbqCgiF_story.html\">reports on the AMAP study:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>OSLO \u2014 Global sea levels will rise faster than expected this century, partly because of quickening climate change in the Arctic and a thaw of Greenland\u2019s ice, an international report said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The rise would add to threats to coasts from Bangladesh to Florida, low-lying Pacific islands and cities from London to Shanghai. It would also raise the cost of building tsunami barriers in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Record temperatures in the Arctic will add to factors raising world sea levels by up to 5.2 feet by 2100, according to a report by the Oslo-based Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), which is backed by the eight-nation Arctic Council.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I went with the &#8220;birther&#8221; analogy here.  Sent May 4:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The AMAP report confirms what many of us have been suspecting and fearing all along: the projections of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been consistently wrong \u2014 too conservative by far.  The likely effects of global warming will include sea-level rises that will devastate coastlines throughout the word; when the atmospheric release of methane clathrates is factored into the equation the resulting picture is increasingly nightmarish.<\/p>\n<p>And yet fully fifty percent of America&#8217;s representative government can&#8217;t even admit the problem is real, preferring instead to believe in a grotesque and wholly improbable mishmash of paranoia, false equivalency, and scientific illiteracy.  The assertions of climate deniers are weirdly reminiscent of another long-running conspiracy theory that has remained unaffected by common sense, logic, and evidence.  If only global warming could produce a long-form birth certificate!<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reports on the AMAP study: OSLO \u2014 Global sea levels will rise faster than expected this century, partly because of quickening climate change in the Arctic and a thaw of Greenland\u2019s ice, an international report said Tuesday. The rise would add to threats to coasts from Bangladesh to Florida, low-lying Pacific islands [&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":[643,332,252],"class_list":["post-3225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-arctic-ice-melt","tag-arctic-methane","tag-ipcc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225","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=3225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3226,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions\/3226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}