{"id":1455,"date":"2015-10-16T14:04:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T14:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2015-10-16T14:04:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T14:04:50","slug":"america-gasses-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1455","title":{"rendered":"America ‘gasses’ the world…"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, I attended a forum on “Climate Change” at nearby Bluffton University.\u00a0 [Having a small liberal arts college in our backyard has provided an absolute wealth of research information.]\u00a0 Toledo University Environmental Science Professor Andrew Jorgensen travels the country with a warning.\u00a0 The cliff note is that global warming is, indeed, real and that we’re approaching a dangerous stage.\u00a0 Perhaps his most eye-opening statistic was that three “countries” in the world (U.S., China and the EU) are responsible for half the carbon dioxide emissions.\u00a0 And per capita, Americans by far<\/em>, generate the most.\u00a0 [In effect our lifestyles majorly responsible for: “gassing” the world — triggering drought, famine, rising sea levels, super-charged hurricanes…] \u00a0 Professor Jorgensen said Europe is proactively becoming greener, and we need to follow suit.\u00a0 He mentioned driving less, car pooling, bicycling, taking public transportation.\u00a0 He suggested insulating houses way better, and dialing back the heat and air conditioning.\u00a0 He suggested moving to way more LED lighting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, I attended a forum on “Climate Change” at nearby Bluffton University.\u00a0 [Having a small liberal arts college in our backyard has provided an absolute wealth of research information.]\u00a0 Toledo University Environmental Science Professor Andrew Jorgensen travels the country …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1456,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/1456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}