{"id":159,"date":"2007-04-13T17:52:22","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T17:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=159"},"modified":"2007-04-13T17:52:22","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T17:52:22","slug":"bettingonglobalwarming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/bettingonglobalwarming\/","title":{"rendered":"Betting on global warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/alex\/DAT.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIf there&#8217;s something out there to bet on, people will.  That seems to be the principle behind the latest round of bets being taken at gambling site, &#8220;BetUS.com&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.betus.com\/.\">http:\/\/www.betus.com\/.<\/a>  It seems that online gamblers have taken to betting on what the effects of global warming will be.  The consensus: Manhattan will be underwater by 2012.  Other interesting stats to note: BetUS gives the odds of Capes Henry and Hatteras being part of the ocean floor by 2015 at 200- and 300-to-1 respectively.<br \/>\nGo on and place a bet, global warming might just be good for someone yet.  Thanks to &#8220;Yahoo! News&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070413\/ap_on_fe_st\/odds_global_warming_bets\">http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070413\/ap_on_fe_st\/odds_global_warming_bets<\/a> for the lead on the story.  The picture is from &#8220;The Day After Tomorrow&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0319262\/.\">http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0319262\/.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s something out there to bet on, people will. That seems to be the principle behind the latest round of bets being taken at gambling site, &#8220;BetUS.com&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.betus.com\/.\">http:\/\/www.betus.com\/.<\/a> It seems that online gamblers have taken to betting on what the effects of global warming will be. The consensus: Manhattan will be underwater by 2012. Other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[128,162,383],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-environment","tag-global-warming","tag-us-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}