{"id":44567,"date":"2020-09-29T18:13:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T18:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44567"},"modified":"2020-09-29T18:13:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T18:13:06","slug":"no-1-issue-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44567","title":{"rendered":"No. 1 issue? Climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=climatechange%20%23globalwarming%20%23JoeBiden&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/climatechange.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22068\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/climatechange-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/climatechange-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/climatechange-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/climatechange.jpg 849w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>If someone were to ask me about the top priority facing the president of the United States, I would place climate change at the top of the list of &#8220;existential threats&#8221; that needs our attention.<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump is a lost cause on that one. He calls climate change\/global warming a &#8220;hoax.&#8221; He pushes for more fossil fuel drilling and development; he has pulled the nation out of the Paris Climate Accords that establishes a framework for cutting carbon emissions; he has been silent on deforestation.<\/p>\n<p>The wildfires that have ravaged several western states are essentially the direct result of climate change. Trump&#8217;s answer? He calls on states to sweep the forest floor clean of dead trees that provide fuel for the fires.<\/p>\n<p>This is where Joe Biden can deliver the goods if he is elected president. Oh, how I hope that happens 36 days from now.<\/p>\n<p>He said he would return to the Climate Accords. Biden has vowed to invest in clean energy technology. He vows to work with Congress &#8212; where he served for 36 years before being elected vice president in 2008 &#8212; to find common ground on legislative solutions to this growing threat to the only planet we can call home.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is clueless. He is feckless. He is reckless in his declarations of &#8220;hoax.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The men will face off tonight in the first of three debates. May the better man &#8212; and I consider him to be <em>Joe Biden<\/em> &#8212; return climate change to the front edge of the top shelf of issues that need presidential attention.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=climatechange%20%23globalwarming%20%23JoeBiden&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com If someone were to ask me about the top priority facing the president of the United States, I would place climate change at the top of the list of &#8220;existential threats&#8221; that needs our attention. Donald J. Trump is a lost cause on that one. He calls climate change\/global warming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44567\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No. 1 issue? Climate change<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1027,1424,1781,1927,2505],"class_list":["post-44567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news","tag-climate-change","tag-donald-trump","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-global-warming","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44568,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44567\/revisions\/44568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}