{"id":46273,"date":"2019-05-21T10:22:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T15:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46273"},"modified":"2019-05-21T10:31:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T15:31:22","slug":"custers-last-stand-meets-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46273","title":{"rendered":"Custer\u2019s Last Stand Meets Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/05\/21\/custers-last-stand-meets-global-warming\/\">Custer\u2019s Last Stand Meets Global Warming<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/05\/2560px-Charles_Marion_Russell_-_The_Custer_Fight_1903.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-111841\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photograph Source: Charles Marion Russell \u2013 Public Domain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A recent article in Arctic News on the outlook for global warming foresees a frightening scenario lurking right around the corner. Hopefully, the article\u2019s premise of impending runaway global warming (\u201cRGW\u201d) is off the mark, by a lot. More to the point, off by really a lot in order to temper the sting expected when abrupt temperature increases hit hard, as projected in the article, which is entitled: \u201cGreenhouse Gas Levels Keep Accelerating.\u201d Oh, BTW\u2026 the worst-case scenario happens within one decade!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here\u2019s a snippet: \u201c\u2026 such a rise in greenhouse gas levels has historically corresponded with more than 10\u00b0C or 18\u00b0F of warming, when looking at greenhouse gas levels and temperatures over the past 800,000 years\u2026.\u201d (Source: Greenhouse Gas Levels Keep Accelerating, Arctic News, May 1, 2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Obviously, it goes without saying no sane person wants to believe, and likely won\u2019t believe or accept, studies about killer temperatures locked, loaded, and ready to fire, right around the corner. That fact alone serves to christen the title \u201cCuster\u2019s Last Stand Meets Global Warming.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Furthermore, and for journalistic balance, it is important to mention that mainstream science is not warning of imminent Runaway Global Warming (\u201cRGW\u201d), as outlined in the Arctic News article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, the article does have credibility because it is the product of academic scientists. Therefore, metaphorically speaking, one can only hope that their Ouija boards were out-of-whack, misinterpreting the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alas, the Arctic News article would not be out there if only the U.S. Senate had taken seriously Dr. James Hansen\u2019s early warnings about global warming way back in 1988. The New York Times headline d\/d June 24, 1988 read: \u201cGlobal Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Custer\u2019s Last Stand Meets Global Warming Photograph Source: Charles Marion Russell \u2013 Public Domain A recent article in Arctic News on the outlook for global warming foresees a frightening scenario lurking right around the corner. Hopefully, the article\u2019s premise of impending runaway global warming (\u201cRGW\u201d) is off the mark, by a lot. More to 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":[25914,141,5493,386,12542,25915,21167],"class_list":["post-46273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-arctic-news","tag-climate-change","tag-counterpunch","tag-greenhouse-gases","tag-robert-hunziker","tag-runaway-global-warming","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46273","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=46273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46274,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46273\/revisions\/46274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}