{"id":386236,"date":"2018-11-23T11:04:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T10:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/its-getting-hot-up-in-here-2\/"},"modified":"2018-11-23T11:04:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T10:04:17","slug":"its-getting-hot-up-in-here-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/its-getting-hot-up-in-here-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Getting Hot Up in Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_107384\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107384\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/43069552530_fb29172476_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/43069552530_fb29172476_z.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/43069552530_fb29172476_z-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source Dan Nevill | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The following is the foreword to Jeffrey St. Clair\u2019s &amp; Joshua Frank\u2019s new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/store.counterpunch.org\/product\/the-big-heat\/\"><em>The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe world is turning, I hope it don\u2019t turn away.\u201d \u2014 Neil Young<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When the overnight low (109F in Oman) would be a record high in most places on Earth, you know your planet is in trouble. The evidence of our warming climate is all around us. At times it feels as if our world is unraveling. Ice shelfs melting. Seas rising. Rivers flooding. Wildfires broiling. Hurricanes destroying. Droughts devastating. It\u2019s not as if these events haven\u2019t been around since the dawn of time, but man-made global warming is undoubtedly making matters much, much worse. There\u2019s little hope that we can stem the rising tides and turn back the damage carbon has wrecked on our little blue planet. But there is plenty to keep fighting for.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t matter that the odds aren\u2019t in our favor. We\u2019ve all seen the numbers. 2016 was the warmest year on record. 2017 the third warmest. In fact, seventeen of the 18 warmest years on record, <em>ever<\/em>, have occurred since 2001. NASA predicts that by 2020 global temperatures will have risen more than 1 degree Celsius over the past 140 years. Of course, this is directly correlated to CO2 concentrations in our atmosphere. Carbon dioxide levels are higher today than at any point in the past 800,000 years, and the rate is going up.<\/p>\n<p>Many climate scientists, including James Hansen, believe the CO2&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/11\/23\/its-getting-hot-up-in-here\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Source Dan Nevill | CC BY 2.0 The following is the foreword to Jeffrey St. Clair\u2019s &amp; Joshua Frank\u2019s new book, The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink. \u201cThe world is turning, I hope it don\u2019t turn away.\u201d \u2014 Neil Young When the overnight low (109F in Oman) would be a record high in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-386236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}