{"id":363,"date":"2012-03-22T20:19:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T00:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=363"},"modified":"2012-03-22T20:19:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T00:19:50","slug":"a-few-articles-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/a-few-articles-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"A few articles on climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>97% of scientists agree that humans have contributed significantly to climate change. It&#8217;s a huge issue that we&#8217;ll have to deal with sooner or later in the 21st century &#8212; sooner would be better.<\/p>\n<p>There are some places in the world where people have no choice but to believe that climate change is happening &#8212; they can see it with their own eyes. The water is rising, and residents of some island nations are trying to figure out where to go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.takepart.com\/article\/2012\/03\/09\/rising-seas-force-kiribati-seek-new-home\">Rising Seas Force Island Nation of Kiribati to Seek New Home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Opinion on climate change has gone up and down in the US in the last few years, and this article argues that this can be traced to politics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/18350-climate-change-public-opinion.html\">Popular Opinion on Climate Change Traced to Political Elites<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article talks about the history of the idea of climate change (the term &#8220;global warming&#8221; was coined in 1975) and why many Americans are refusing to believe that it&#8217;s happening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/posttrib.suntimes.com\/news\/7806599-418\/the-american-allergy-to-global-warming-why.html\">The American \u2018allergy\u2019 to global warming: Why?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are normally calm, cool, and collected. But some of them are getting angry about climate change, and they&#8217;ve even made a music video.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2011\/jul\/05\/scienceofclimatechange-climate-change\">Scientists finally get angry about indifference to climate change<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, if you haven&#8217;t seen Al Gore&#8217;s documentary <strong>An Inconvenient Truth<\/strong> you really should. If you know me personally (and live near me) you&#8217;re welcome to borrow my copy of the DVD.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecrisis.net\/\">Climate Crisis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>97% of scientists agree that humans have contributed significantly to climate change. It&#8217;s a huge issue that we&#8217;ll have to deal with sooner or later in the 21st century &#8212; sooner would be better. There are some places in the world where people have no choice but to believe that climate change is happening &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[34,19],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-climate-change","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}