{"id":284,"date":"2007-05-27T14:55:07","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T14:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=284"},"modified":"2007-05-27T14:55:07","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T14:55:07","slug":"permafrostnolonger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/permafrostnolonger\/","title":{"rendered":"Permafrost no longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/alex\/PermafrostGraves.png!\nLike most people living all over the world, I don't live on the front lines of climate change.  If there has been any change in Paris' climate it's for the better as the winter is shorter than normal and the weather generally nicer. It's easy to forget that there is disaster looming large over our heads like the Sword of Damocles.  It's easy to forget that there are many places where the cut of climate change is felt every day, each season a little worse than the last.\nIn the Arctic north, the permafrost line is receding as polar temperatures increase.  \"This article\":<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/27\/us\/27newtok.html?ex=1337918400&#038;en=7e93b110d8fc61d0&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/27\/us\/27newtok.html?ex=1337918400&#038;en=7e93b110d8fc61d0&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss<\/a> from today's New York Times highlights one of those towns on the edge, Newtok Alaska.  Newtok used to be just another small Arctic outpost but now it's an island, cut off from the mainland by erosion.  The residents of Newtok have an important story to tell about what it's like to live on the edge.  It's a story we should hear.\nPhoto courtesy of \"Greenpeace\":<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/campaigns\/climate-change.\">http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/campaigns\/climate-change.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[128,162],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","category-uncategorized","tag-environment","tag-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","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=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}