{"id":3237,"date":"2011-05-19T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=3237"},"modified":"2011-05-08T20:08:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T00:08:41","slug":"year-2-month-5-day-19-crops-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-5-day-19-crops-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 5, Day 19: Crops Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Times reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/06\/science\/earth\/06warming.html?partner=rss&#038;emc=rss\">the same study on climate change and agriculture<\/a> that&#8217;s already triggered several letters over the past few days.<\/p>\n<p>I figured I&#8217;d harp on the &#8220;Americans are scary dumb and deluded&#8221; aspect of this.<\/p>\n<p>Sent May 8:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the scariest aspects of the research linking global warming to rising food prices is simply that the planet&#8217;s environmental transformation has only just begun.  The orchestra of climate chaos is still tuning up, and already we are observing crop losses and decreased yields in many of the world&#8217;s great agricultural regions.  Between increasing droughts, heavy floods and other forms of anomalous extreme weather, there are farmers everywhere whose lives have been gravely disrupted.  Well, almost everywhere.  It&#8217;s grotesquely ironic that the United States, for decades Earth&#8217;s largest per capita greenhouse emitter, has experienced comparatively little agricultural damage from the climate change it has helped make possible.  America has, however, seen a different failure \u2014 a failure of imagination and understanding that has many of our fellow citizens preferring Byzantine conspiracy theories to scientific facts.  While the world&#8217;s harvests suffer, the United States reaps a bumper crop of ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times reports on the same study on climate change and agriculture that&#8217;s already triggered several letters over the past few days. I figured I&#8217;d harp on the &#8220;Americans are scary dumb and deluded&#8221; aspect of this. Sent May 8: One of the scariest aspects of the research linking global warming to rising food prices [&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":[733,253],"class_list":["post-3237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-agriculture","tag-denialists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237","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=3237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3239,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions\/3239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}