{"id":962,"date":"2009-11-29T01:57:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T01:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=400"},"modified":"2009-11-29T01:57:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T01:57:05","slug":"arctic-ice-melts-at-an-alarming-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=962","title":{"rendered":"Arctic ice melts at an alarming rate"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Associated Press<\/em> article today said that permanent Arctic sea ice is disappearing at an alarming rate. \u00a0 Multi-year sea ice used to cover 90% of the Arctic basin, but because of global warming it now covers only 19%. \u00a0 During a recent talk at Holy Cross College in South Bend, Indiana, I said to just slowly and incrementally cut back our fossil fuel use in the face of this mounting crisis is like “…rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.” \u00a0 The U.S., which currently leads the world in the emission of greenhouse gases, needs to move from being a “Society of Consumers to a Society of Conservers,”<\/strong> quick<\/em>. \u00a0 And there needs to be political leadership with the guts to tell Americans that we need to ration energy use, like things were rationed during World War II. \u00a0 And when you think about it from a common sense standpoint, it is war time again now. \u00a0 That is, there is a war on the environment. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 The article also included the following paragraph: \u00a0 “The lack of sea ice may be good news to some who want to see the North opened to industry. \u00a0 Without thick ice blocking the way, shpis can more easily gain access to the Arctic’s natural resources.” \u00a0 This begs the question: \u00a0 Have we become that nuts that any of us would see this as “good news.”? <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Associated Press article today said that permanent Arctic sea ice is disappearing at an alarming rate. \u00a0 Multi-year sea ice used to cover 90% of the Arctic basin, but because of global warming it now covers only 19%. \u00a0 …<\/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-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","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=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}