{"id":65487,"date":"2023-07-14T05:28:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T10:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65487"},"modified":"2023-07-14T05:29:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T10:29:00","slug":"science-snippets-if-we-start-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65487","title":{"rendered":"Science Snippets: &#8220;If We Start Right Now &#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-header\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title unpublished\"><a href=\"https:\/\/guymcpherson.substack.com\/p\/science-snippets-if-we-start-right?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\">Science Snippets: &#8220;If We Start Right Now &#8230;&#8221;<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"available-content\">\n<div class=\"body markup\" dir=\"auto\">\n<div id=\"youtube2-Ki1qSQ2-sLQ\" class=\"youtube-wrap\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Ki1qSQ2-sLQ&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}\" data-component-name=\"Youtube2ToDOM\">\n<div class=\"youtube-inner\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Ki1qSQ2-sLQ?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0\" width=\"728\" height=\"409\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Every day, I receive an email message from at least one person with this line, or something like it: \u201cIf we start right now \u2026\u201d The message then goes on to say that, if we start right now, we can fix the climate emergency. We can preserve habitat for human animals if we start taking action, collectively, right now.<\/p>\n<p>The latest message came from Bill, of course. Bill knows the message from the corporate media is nonsense. In fact, the content of Bill\u2019s message was one line, followed by a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/06\/13\/climate-extremes-warming-charts-concerns\" rel=\"\">link to an article in\u00a0<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/06\/13\/climate-extremes-warming-charts-concerns\" rel=\"\">Axios<\/a><\/em>. The line written by Bill was, \u201cMore hopium soaked BS.\u201d Sure enough, the article in\u00a0<em>Axios<\/em>\u00a0was, and is, hopium-soaked BS. Here\u2019s the title of the paper published 13 June 2023, and then I\u2019ll describe and quote from the article: \u201cClimate extremes raise questions, concerns about faster warming.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscription-widget-wrap\">\n<div class=\"subscription-widget show-subscribe\">\n<div class=\"preamble\">\n<p>Nature Bats Last Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The article begins with a figure of daily global average sea surface temperatures plotted over time. Included in the graph is the 1982-2011 average, as if that\u2019s a reasonable baseline. It includes the average for this period and it highlights sea surface temperature for all of 2022 and the first half of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Early on, the article includes a section called\u00a0<em>The big picture<\/em>. Here\u2019s the big picture, which includes embedded links to four additional stories: \u201cGlobal surface air and ocean temperatures have spiked sharply in recent months, along with record low Antarctic sea ice, extreme heat events around the world, as Canada\u2019s heat and wildfire crisis grips North America. Along with other developments, the combination of these factors have raised alarms regarding whether climate change is accelerating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Snippets: &#8220;If We Start Right Now &#8230;&#8221; Every day, I receive an email message from at least one person with this line, or something like it: \u201cIf we start right now \u2026\u201d The message then goes on to say that, if we start right now, we can fix the climate emergency. We can preserve [&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":[103,141,369,5714,32966,4849],"class_list":["post-65487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-canada","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-guy-mcpherson","tag-nature-bats-last","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65487","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=65487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65489,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65487\/revisions\/65489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}