{"id":598,"date":"2013-02-12T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/12\/yes-the-planet-is-warming-honestly"},"modified":"2013-02-12T14:58:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T14:58:00","slug":"yes-the-planet-is-warming-honestly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"Yes, the planet is warming, honestly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Those with their heads in the snow, er, sand have begun the chorus of doubt about whether Planet Earth is actually warming.<\/p>\n<p>Amarillo got its usual 6 inches of snow overnight. It\u2019s cold out there, which always is related to the presence of snow on the ground. That big blizzard pounded the NE corner of the United States the other day under about a <em>yard<\/em> of snow in some places. Local observers here, and there, have declared \u2013 as they usually do \u2013 that the global warming fears are all a left-wing, enviro-nut, big brother conspiracy to destroy the industries that have created the greatest nation the world has ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, these denials ignore considerable data that affirm what many of us fear, which is that Earth is warming up. Most recently, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u00a0 reported that in 2012, the planet warmed up a full degree year over year from the previous high temperature. That\u2019s significant chiefly because record-setting temperatures usually occur only in <em>fractions<\/em> of degrees, according to NOAA; that it would warm up by a full degree is unprecedented.<\/p>\n<p>The consequences of this warming? The seas will rise, coastal cities could be swamped, polar ice caps will melt \u2013 endangering wildlife that depend on the ice. <\/p>\n<p>I have seen a proverbial blizzard (pun intended) of data that support the global-warming findings.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining dispute centers on what\u2019s causing it. Lefties blame carbon emissions sent into the atmosphere from fossil-fuel-burning industries; righties say the planet\u2019s warming is all part of the planet\u2019s epochal cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Let that debate continue. What shouldn\u2019t be disputed is whether the planet is getting warmer. It is.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those with their heads in the snow, er, sand have begun the chorus of doubt about whether Planet Earth is actually warming. Amarillo got its usual 6 inches of snow overnight. It\u2019s cold out there, which always is related to the presence of snow on the ground. That big blizzard pounded the NE corner of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=598\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yes, the planet is warming, honestly<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","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=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}