{"id":41334,"date":"2018-12-06T06:59:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T11:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41334"},"modified":"2018-12-06T06:59:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T11:59:37","slug":"warnings-of-doom-amid-a-smokescreen-of-denial-and-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41334","title":{"rendered":"Warnings of Doom, Amid a Smokescreen of Denial and Distraction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warnings of Doom, Amid a Smokescreen of Denial and Distraction<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Photo Source reurinkjan | CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Trump administration predictably tried to bury the dire warnings contained in the fourth\u00a0National Climate Assessment<\/a> by releasing it the day after Thanksgiving, when many people would be distracted by the mass consumption frenzy known as Black Friday. It didn\u2019t work, of course, since the findings were nothing short of warnings of doom if humanity doesn\u2019t radically reduce the production of greenhouse gases caused primarily by burning fossil fuels.<\/p>\n

Equally predictable was the response from the Climate Denier-in-Chief that he simply \u201cdidn\u2019t believe\u201d the findings. The rays of hope are that, thanks to the Mueller investigation, indictments and convictions, as well as the recent election that erased the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, Donald Trump\u2019s \u201creign of error\u201d on the environment is coming to an end\u00a0\u2014 and not a minute too soon for our nation and the planet.<\/p>\n

Considering that the congressionally mandated Climate Assessment was put together by more than 300 scientists and 13 federal agencies, there are plenty of good reasons to heed its assessments and predictions, summarized right up front in the report as: \u201cClimate change creates new risks and exacerbates existing vulnerabilities in communities across the United States, presenting growing challenges to human health and safety, quality of life, and the rate of economic growth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here in Montana, the \u201crisks and vulnerabilities\u201d are particularly acute as a warming climate produces longer and more extreme wildfire seasons, less snow and drought-caused water shortages, rivers warming beyond the tolerable limits for our world-famous wild trout fisheries, and a host of impacts to a wide variety of businesses from agriculture to recreation.<\/p>\n

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Warnings of Doom, Amid a Smokescreen of Denial and Distraction Photo Source reurinkjan | CC BY 2.0 The Trump administration predictably tried to bury the dire warnings contained in the fourth\u00a0National Climate Assessment by releasing it the day after Thanksgiving, when many people would be distracted by the mass consumption frenzy known as Black Friday. […]<\/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":[141,992,5493,7844,328,18876,386,23369,4849],"class_list":["post-41334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-change-denial","tag-counterpunch","tag-donald-trump","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-george-ochenski","tag-greenhouse-gases","tag-national-climate-assessment","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41334","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=41334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41335,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41334\/revisions\/41335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}