{"id":9461,"date":"2024-01-05T12:36:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T11:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=9461"},"modified":"2024-01-05T12:37:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T11:37:11","slug":"reasons-for-hope-for-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2024\/01\/05\/reasons-for-hope-for-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons for hope about climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I started working on climate change full-time two and a half years ago, I poured over books, articles, and United Nations reports about the challenges we face\u2014both global and local. I wanted the facts, like why scientists say we need to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels. Or what the melting Arctic ice caps mean for rising sea levels. I wanted to understand the bad news. I found it in books like David Wallace-Wells\u2019 \u201cThe Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming.\u201d The chapter titles paint a terrifying picture of a warming planet: \u201cHeat Death,\u201d \u201cHunger,\u201d \u201cUnbreathable Air,\u201d \u201cEconomic Collapse.\u201d I\u2019ve written stories about how the effects of global warming are showing up here in the Carolinas, creating unhealthy urban heat islands, bringing flooding and beach erosion, and forcing farmers to adapt to saltwater intrusion and rising sea levels. These hard facts can get you down. But they\u2019re also a motivator. As more people understand what climate change means, they\u2019re becoming more concerned about it. This is especially true when they see climate change in their everyday lives\u2014like storms, wildfires, or flooding. (<em>David Borak)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started working on climate change full-time two and a half years ago, I poured over books, articles, and United Nations reports about the challenges we face\u2014both globally and locally. I wanted the facts, like why scientists say we need to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) compared to [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}