{"id":732,"date":"2014-06-10T22:38:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T20:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/?p=732"},"modified":"2015-02-22T21:29:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T20:29:19","slug":"i-dont-care-about-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/2014\/06\/10\/i-dont-care-about-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t care about global warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If <a title=\"XKCD\" href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1379\/\">XKCD&#8217;s 4.5\u00b0<\/a> is correct, in some ~160 years there&#8217;ll be a 200m rise in sea level and Palm trees at the poles.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t give a monkey&#8217;s toss, for several good reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I live more than 400m above sea level. Those of you who have elected domicile close to the ocean might grasp the meaning of Darwinism sooner or later; but your choice indicates that you have the same intelligence as those that built Fukushima on a beach<\/li>\n<li>In 30-odd years, with luck, I&#8217;ll be pushing up the daises<\/li>\n<li>In 50-odd years we&#8217;ll have burnt all the fossile fuels available and the whole CO2 panic will turn out to be be what it really is: a tiny blip in our planet&#8217;s evolution<\/li>\n<li>Within a century, nuclear fusion will have been mastered and our energy problems will disappear<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Carpe diem, our children will look after themselves just as our ancestors did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If XKCD&#8217;s 4.5\u00b0 is correct, in some ~160 years there&#8217;ll be a 200m rise in sea level and Palm trees at the poles. I couldn&#8217;t give a monkey&#8217;s toss, for several good reasons: I live more than 400m above sea <a href='https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/2014\/06\/10\/i-dont-care-about-global-warming\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[58,57],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society","tag-fools","tag-global-warming","category-10-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}