{"id":8,"date":"2007-02-16T08:16:28","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T08:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=8"},"modified":"2007-02-16T08:16:28","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T08:16:28","slug":"drunk-russians-latest-sign-of-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/drunk-russians-latest-sign-of-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunk Russians latest sign of global warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone who has seen &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecrisis.net\/\">An Inconvenient Truth<\/a>,&rdquo; you probably remember the moving animation of the cute polar bear struggling to stay dry on a fast-disappearing ice floe.&nbsp; The point of the clip is to show how rapidly the polar ice is melting and how it&rsquo;s adversely effecting the environment.&nbsp; It turns out that polar bears are not alone in being left stranded out on the floating ice created by global warming.&nbsp; 442 fishermen from the north Pacific Russian island of Sakhalin (the barracuda-shaped land mass north of Japan) were rescued Saturday from sheets of ice, many of whom had spent their time adrift getting quite drunk.<br \/>\nIf you still haven&rsquo;t seen the documentary, you can order a <a href=\"http:\/\/sharethetruth.us\/free\/\">free copy<\/a> online from sharethetruth.us.&nbsp; Also, if you haven&rsquo;t seen it yet, there is a pretty great<a href=\"http:\/\/www.threadless.com\/product\/94\/Permafrost_Pollution\"> Threadless tee<\/a> inspired by the polar bear from the documentary.&nbsp; I hope some intrepid, overly clever graphic designer submits a follow-up shirt design featuring the stranded drunk Sakhalinian fishermen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone who has seen &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecrisis.net\/\">An Inconvenient Truth<\/a>,&rdquo; you probably remember the moving animation of the cute polar bear struggling to stay dry on a fast-disappearing ice floe..<\/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":[128,162,315],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-environment","tag-global-warming","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","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=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}