{"id":5719,"date":"2013-03-15T10:41:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unrbep.org\/?p=5719"},"modified":"2013-03-15T10:43:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:43:47","slug":"how-climate-change-is-destroying-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/how-climate-change-is-destroying-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"How Climate Change is Destroying the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learnstuff.com\/climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\">Learn Stuff.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Climate Change is Real<\/h3>\n<p>Thanks to extensive research and noticeable changes in weather and storm prevalence, it\u2019s getting harder to turn a blind eye to the reality of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learnstuff.com\/clinton-climate-initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\">climate change<\/a>. Since the Industrial Age spurred the increasing usage of fossil fuels for energy production, the weather has been warming slowly. In fact, since 1880, the temperature of the earth has increased by 1 degree Celsius.<\/p>\n<p>Although 72% of media outlets report on global warming with a skeptical air, the overwhelming majority of scientists believe that the extreme weather of the last decade is at least partially caused by global warming. Some examples of climate calamities caused partly by global warming include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hurricane Katrina<\/li>\n<li>Drought in desert countries<\/li>\n<li>Hurricane Sandy<\/li>\n<li>Tornadoes in the Midwest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These storms, droughts, and floods are causing death and economic issues for people all over the world \u2013 many of whom cannot afford to rebuild their lives from the ground up after being wiped out by a tsunami or other disaster.<\/p>\n<p><b>Check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learnstuff.com\/climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\">infographic<\/a> to see what else the changing climate is affecting!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Learn Stuff.com Climate Change is Real Thanks to extensive research and noticeable changes in weather and storm prevalence, it\u2019s getting harder to turn a blind eye to the reality of climate change. Since the Industrial Age spurred the increasing usage of fossil fuels for energy production, the weather has been warming slowly. In fact, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/how-climate-change-is-destroying-the-earth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Climate Change is Destroying the Earth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5719"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5721,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5719\/revisions\/5721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}