{"id":2527,"date":"2014-11-17T22:24:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T22:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2527"},"modified":"2014-11-17T22:24:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T22:24:09","slug":"more-rain-in-a-few-days-than-normally-expected-in-a-year-thats-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/more-rain-in-a-few-days-than-normally-expected-in-a-year-thats-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"More rain in a few days than normally expected in a year.  That&#8217;s climate change."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The report on deadly mudslides in Switzerland and Italy squeezed that little tidbit of information between a couple of great photos of flooding in the region.<\/p>\n<p>I can be quite sanguine about death because individually we are so insignificant.\u00a0 But clearly as a species we have wrought awesome changes on this planet, including upsetting the weather.\u00a0 If we think this is bad, imagine how much worse it is going to get as we continue to breed and consume the planet.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, enjoy the view:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/79064000\/jpg\/_79064303_024757456-1.jpg?resize=624%2C391\" alt=\"An aerial view of a flooded area near Lake Maggiore shows a farm surrounded by water near the village of Magadino in Ticino, Switzerland, on 16 November 2014\" width=\"624\" height=\"391\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-header\">BBC:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-30077272\">Deadly mudslides engulf homes in Switzerland and Italy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report on deadly mudslides in Switzerland and Italy squeezed that little tidbit of information between a couple of great photos of flooding in the region. I can be quite sanguine about death because individually we are so insignificant.\u00a0 But clearly as a species we have wrought awesome changes on this planet, including upsetting the &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/more-rain-in-a-few-days-than-normally-expected-in-a-year-thats-climate-change\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More rain in a few days than normally expected in a year.  That&#8217;s climate change.<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatechange"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-EL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527","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=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2528,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions\/2528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}