{"id":5572,"date":"2009-10-19T12:06:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T17:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5572"},"modified":"2009-10-19T12:28:37","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T17:28:37","slug":"can-we-renew-our-50-day-lease-on-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5572","title":{"rendered":"Can We Renew Our 50-Day Lease on Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2624\/4026821424_2bd91c90d5.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I traveled to The Badlands in South Dakota this past week where you can literally see millions of years of earth&#8217;s history locked in a lava parfait; most of which took place without our existence, let alone our negligible impact<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and UK PM Gordon Brown, who has no scientific basis and of course no political agenda to further,  says we <strike>have<\/strike> had 50 days to save Mother Earth.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/8313672.stm\">Gordon Brown said negotiators had 50 days<\/a> to save the world from global warming and break the &#8220;impasse&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Brown warned that negotiators were not reaching agreement quickly enough and said it was a &#8220;profound moment&#8221; for the world involving &#8220;momentous choice&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So we should never allow ourselves to lose sight of the catastrophe we face if present warming trends continue.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sorry, Sir. You mean <em>cooling <\/em>trends, right?<\/p>\n<p>See, if I were Brown, I&#8217;d use even <em>more<\/em> syllables that that&#8230;to underscore the behemothic endangerment; the precariousness of our <span class=\"theColor\">posterity<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>What an amateur.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile venues from Australia to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kare11.com\/weather\/weather_article.aspx?storyid=826732&#038;catid=80\">here in the Twin Cities<\/a> have experienced the coldest first two weeks in October on record.<\/p>\n<p>HT John H<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I traveled to The Badlands in South Dakota this past week where you can literally see millions of years of earth&#8217;s history locked in a lava parfait; most of which took place without our existence, let alone our negligible impact &#8230;and UK PM Gordon Brown, who has no scientific basis and of course no political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warmingcoolingchange","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}