{"id":5517,"date":"2013-01-09T04:50:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T09:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=5517"},"modified":"2013-01-17T12:31:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T17:31:56","slug":"year-4-month-1-day-9-maui-wowee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-4-month-1-day-9-maui-wowee\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 4, Month 1, Day 9: Maui Wowee?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Honolulu Weekly notes that <a href=\"http:\/\/honoluluweekly.com\/cover\/2012\/12\/climate-change-in-hawai%E2%80%98i-it%E2%80%99s-here\/\">climate change has arrived in Hawaii:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>For years we\u2019ve been hearing ominous rumblings about climate change and its many implications for the planet, especially Hawaii and other islands in the Western Pacific. The scenarios fueled by a rapidly expanding body of science are sobering: rising temperatures and prolonged droughts, dying coral reefs and dwindling fish stocks. Rising sea levels will eventually, for some atolls and low-lying areas of Hawaii, bring total inundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have lots and lots of science,\u201d says Jesse Souki, director of the Office of State Planning (OSP). \u201cWe have a pretty good idea of what the problem is, and what\u2019s going to happen. The hard part is figuring out what to do about it.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The islands make a good hook for a standard screed on GOP idiocy.  Sent January 4:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hawaii isn&#8217;t alone.  Every day, nations, states, regions and communities around the world are find that climate change is no longer an abstraction but a difficult and sometimes dangerous reality.  When the weather goes haywire, farmers can&#8217;t plan.  When out-of-season storms start happening more and more often, the whole notion of &#8220;season&#8221; goes out the window \u2014 along with vulnerable infrastructure.  When mountaintop ice vanishes, people in the valleys who&#8217;ve depended on glacial melt for their water are forced from the land they&#8217;ve occupied for millennia.  And when islands are under threat from rising sea levels, tourism may take a back seat to simple survival.<\/p>\n<p>But while people everywhere on Earth are waking up to the threat of climate chaos, there is still one place where the rapidly metastasizing greenhouse effect has failed to make an impact.  In the offices and caucus rooms of Congressional Republicans, global warming is still a liberal hoax, not a potentially devastating reality.  While these conservative lawmakers may answer to different constituencies, they all represent, ultimately, the same state of denial.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/honoluluweekly.com\/letters\/2013\/01\/hawai%E2%80%98i-isn%E2%80%99t-alone\/\">Published.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Honolulu Weekly notes that climate change has arrived in Hawaii: For years we\u2019ve been hearing ominous rumblings about climate change and its many implications for the planet, especially Hawaii and other islands in the Western Pacific. The scenarios fueled by a rapidly expanding body of science are sobering: rising temperatures and prolonged droughts, dying [&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":[733,467,253,207,1219,606,841],"class_list":["post-5517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-agriculture","tag-assholes","tag-denialists","tag-idiots","tag-islands","tag-republican-obstructionism","tag-rising-sea-levels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517","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=5517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5561,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517\/revisions\/5561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}