{"id":51269,"date":"2015-05-26T17:21:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T23:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/26\/climate-change-and-national-security.html"},"modified":"2015-05-26T17:21:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T23:21:32","slug":"climate-change-and-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/26\/climate-change-and-national-security.html","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change and National Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#39;re the proverbial frog in a slowly warming pot of water&#8211; but there are plenty of people who seem willing to profit by pretending it&#39;s not happening &#8212; including, unfortunately, one of our two political parties.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102356721871221463140\" oid=\"102356721871221463140\">George Wiman<\/a><\/span>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2015\/05\/26\/climate_change_denying_reality_is_a_threat_to_our_nation.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/NNhjmK4WcgRc6wcICVzLLkZdiN7xikwnZI34BsKIWjaSeO7T9SAKFTXElHv2HC51G5gxsPWcBJ6YTuBg06svI6-AXQYA9cARq5Wdea1APinNRBBth-UVmCZhfq8eBO3N1igsdJOTpiNCsrpC8EmYONekWt6bpVAdBi40ZpyDq2zMIUAJX_5CD0P5k88XNuK9w8g1JYvX_Hv0RL8ROzd4mvt1GYeHxw=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2015\/05\/26\/climate_change_denying_reality_is_a_threat_to_our_nation.html'>Climate Change Denial Is a Threat to National Security<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nFirst, let me be clear about this reality: Planet Earth is warming because of human activity, because of us, and that is profoundly affecting the climate. There is no honest doubt about this; the overwhelming evidence supports it, so much so that 97 percent of climate scientists agree on it&#8230;.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/SWYGHdBKu9Y'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#39;re the proverbial frog in a slowly warming pot of water&#8211; but there are plenty of people who seem willing to profit by pretending it&#39;s not happening &#8212; including, unfortunately, one of our two political parties. (h\/t +George Wiman) Climate Change Denial Is a Threat to National Security First, let me be clear about this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/26\/climate-change-and-national-security.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Climate Change and National Security&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}