{"id":6277,"date":"2013-08-05T08:28:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T12:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=6277"},"modified":"2013-07-17T18:47:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T22:47:35","slug":"year-4-month-8-day-5-no-one-there-to-tell-us-what-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-4-month-8-day-5-no-one-there-to-tell-us-what-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 4, Month 8, Day 5: No One There To Tell Us What To Do"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Charleston City Paper notes a group of educators who are doing their jobs admirably:<\/a><\/p>\n

There couldn\u2019t have been a hotter July morning to talk about global warming. Charleston\u2019s temperatures hit right around 90 degrees, but that didn\u2019t stop the national \u201cI Will Act On Climate\u201d tour bus from stopping at the Battery to spread awareness about this global issue.<\/p>\n

The S.C. Small Business Chamber of Commerce teamed up with the national campaign Tuesday morning to present information and speakers on the issue of rising sea levels. This event also acted as the debut of SCBARS, a.k.a. SC Businesses Against Rising Seas, a local movement designed to inform local businesses, residents, and tourists of the impact that global warming will have on the Lowcountry.<\/p>\n

Lead speaker Scott Wolfrey first stepped up to the podium, surrounded by charts estimating the increase in water levels for the Charleston peninsula and Folly Beach by 2100. The prediction: 6 feet. That means that Folly Beach would lose around 95% of its landmass, and the edge of the Battery where everyone was standing would be underwater.
\nWolfrey said the organization had approached more 100 local businesses with the information, and more than 50 percent gave positive feedback and were receptive to the group’s mission.
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A 300-word limit means I didn’t have to work too hard, which is good, because it’s too damn hot right now. July 17:<\/p>\n

A six-foot high water mark makes an excellent symbol for one of the most vivid and unforgettable effects of global climate change. Over the coming century, rising sea levels are going to alter the world’s coastlines drastically, forcing millions of people away from their homes, their lands, and their lives. Our nation’s infrastructure, already in major disrepair, can hardly be expected to withstand such inexorable forces; it is an act of civic responsibility to ensure that businesses and homeowners have enough time to plan.<\/p>\n

But we should not forget that the accelerating greenhouse effect will have other consequences that are equally profound but less obvious. Extreme weather can be expected to reduce agricultural productivity significantly: there’ll be fewer things to eat, and they’ll be more expensive and harder to obtain. Many plant and animal species will be unable to adapt to climatic transformations happening a hundred or a thousand times faster than evolutionary speed, which means a devastating loss of Earthly biodiversity for our children and our children’s children in the coming centuries. <\/p>\n

The climate crisis is here, it’s real, and it’s dangerous to our civilization and to our species. Despite the best efforts of a complaisant media to downplay the severity of the emergency, there is no longer any valid excuse for ignorance or denial.<\/p>\n

Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Charleston City Paper notes a group of educators who are doing their jobs admirably: There couldn\u2019t have been a hotter July morning to talk about global warming. Charleston\u2019s temperatures hit right around 90 degrees, but that didn\u2019t stop the national \u201cI Will Act On Climate\u201d tour bus from stopping at the Battery to spread […]<\/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":[733,376,587,841],"class_list":["post-6277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-agriculture","tag-biodiversity","tag-extreme-weather","tag-rising-sea-levels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277","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=6277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6278,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277\/revisions\/6278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}