{"id":2063,"date":"2013-12-04T10:01:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T10:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2013-12-10T10:33:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T10:33:32","slug":"biosphere-destruction-is-virtualy-ignored-and-time-is-running-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/biosphere-destruction-is-virtualy-ignored-and-time-is-running-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Biosphere destruction is being ignored but happening fast and time is running out."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=dangerous-climate-change-imminent\">Dangerous Global Warming Closer Than You Think, Climate Scientists Say<\/a>, Scientific American outlines two reports encouraging immediate and extensive action, before it&#8217;s too late.<\/p>\n<p>The message of the reports is that climate volatility is already here, species extinction is close to a critical level, as are levels of toxic concentrates.\u00a0 They are now talking in terms of only decades to repair the problems.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly there remain climate deniers who resist the science, using the moderate language of scientific data interpretation to claim that inconclusiveness equates to fallacy.\u00a0 These few climate deniers influence millions who support their claims, many doing so on religious grounds (which is doubly sad because no god would be pleased with the way the planet is polluted even by faithful climate deniers).<\/p>\n<p>We are getting deeper in to a situation requiring radical change in behaviour, especially with respect to energy consumption and sources.\u00a0 Everyone\u00a0 has to change behaviour now.\u00a0 Use less energy.\u00a0 Eliminate combustion of fossil fuels.\u00a0 Everyone.\u00a0 Now.<\/p>\n<p>PlosOne:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0081648\">Assessing &#8216;Dangerous Climate Change<\/a><\/p>\n<p>National Academy of Sciences: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nap.edu\/catalog.php?record_id=18373\">Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change: Anticipating Surprises<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Dangerous Global Warming Closer Than You Think, Climate Scientists Say, Scientific American outlines two reports encouraging immediate and extensive action, before it&#8217;s too late. The message of the reports is that climate volatility is already here, species extinction is close to a critical level, as are levels of toxic concentrates.\u00a0 They are now talking &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/biosphere-destruction-is-virtualy-ignored-and-time-is-running-out\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biosphere destruction is being ignored but happening fast and time is running out.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,7,22,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-climatechange","category-living","category-risk-and-terror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-xh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions\/2065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}