{"id":12103,"date":"2015-09-11T06:07:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T11:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12103"},"modified":"2015-09-11T06:07:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T11:07:55","slug":"are-we-already-in-abrupt-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12103","title":{"rendered":"Are We Already in Abrupt Climate Change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecoshock.info\/2015\/09\/are-we-already-in-abrupt-climate-change.html\" target=\"_blank\">Are We Already in Abrupt Climate Change?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"post-title entry-title\">In this week&#8217;s Radio Ecoshock, we cover global climate news, from the Syrian refugees to signs of an abrupt climate shift, with scientist Paul Beckwith. Plus I&#8217;ve got a few tidbits of news they just won&#8217;t tell you, and my new song aimed to promote activism for the Paris climate talks in late November this year.I&#8217;m Alex Smith, let&#8217;s go.<b>Listen to or download this Radio Ecoshock show<\/b>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecoshock.net\/downloads\/ES_150909_Show.mp3\">CD Quality<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecoshock.net\/downloads\/ES_150909_LoFi.mp3\">Lo-Fi<\/a>Or listen right now on Soundcloud!<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/223117019&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>(<a href=\"http:\/\/tygae.weebly.com\/tipping-points.html\">image courtesy of Milint Earth Day<\/a>)<b>CLIMATE NEWS ROUNDUP WITH PAUL BECKWITH<\/b>Over the summer in the Northern Hemisphere, climate change put in an extreme appearance all over the world. It looks like 2015 will be the hottest year ever, another record-setting year in a string of hot years. Sooner or later, our civilization will begin to crack under the strain. Our next guest suggests a climate shift could be sooner than most people expect.It&#8217;s time for our climate roundup with climate scientist, and regular Radio Ecoshock guest, Paul Beckwith, from the University of Ottawa.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NjJwEBIlh9A\/VfDIJH694dI\/AAAAAAAAA30\/AyPgvtM9Nas\/s1600\/Beckwith_large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NjJwEBIlh9A\/VfDIJH694dI\/AAAAAAAAA30\/AyPgvtM9Nas\/s400\/Beckwith_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"post-title entry-title\">Climate change is behind one of the biggest stories of our times, the outpouring of refugees from the Middle East. Let me just read one paragraph from a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences March 2nd, 2015. The title is:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/112\/11\/3241.abstract?sid=49442341-0ee5-4811-9459-3a23b23420b9\">&#8220;Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought&#8221;<\/a>. The lead author was Colin Kelly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are We Already in Abrupt Climate Change? In this week&#8217;s Radio Ecoshock, we cover global climate news, from the Syrian refugees to signs of an abrupt climate shift, with scientist Paul Beckwith. Plus I&#8217;ve got a few tidbits of news they just won&#8217;t tell you, and my new song aimed to promote activism for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[8895,141,1887,2510,8896,8894],"class_list":["post-12103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-abrupt-climate-change","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-talks","tag-paris","tag-paul-beckwith","tag-radio-ecoshock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12104,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12103\/revisions\/12104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}