{"id":2577,"date":"2011-07-11T18:31:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T22:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2011-07-11T18:31:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T22:31:32","slug":"national-geographics-6-degrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/2011\/07\/national-geographics-6-degrees\/","title":{"rendered":"National Geographic&#8217;s 6 degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so it&#8217;s a few years old, but I&#8217;d never seen this series of videos by National Geographic before. I&#8217;m not convinced you can slice the impacts into 1 degree increments with any reliability, but this series does a nice job of getting the big picture across (much better than <a title=\"Lynas: Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet\" href=\"http:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=hHSSlxj_wvMC\" target=\"_blank\">Lynas&#8217; book<\/a>, which I found to be too lacking in narrative structure):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2_ZQRIsn2pA&amp;feature=channel_video_title\">Could Just One Degree Change the World?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P-0_gDXqYeQ&amp;feature=channel_video_title\">2 Degress Warmer: Ocean Life in Danger<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6rdLu7wiZOE&amp;feature=channel_video_title\">3 Degrees Warmer: Heat Wave Fatalities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=skFrR3g4BRQ&amp;feature=channel_video_title\">4 Degrees Warmer: Great Cities Wash Away<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7nRf2RTqANg&amp;feature=channel_video_title\">5 Degrees Warmer: Civilization Collapses<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O8qmaAMK4cM&amp;feature=channel_video_title\">6 Degrees Warmer: Mass Extinction?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What&#8217;s uncanny is how much of what&#8217;s presented in the 1 degree video is already happening now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so it&#8217;s a few years old, but I&#8217;d never seen this series of videos by National Geographic before. I&#8217;m not convinced you can slice the impacts into 1 degree increments with any reliability, but this series does a nice job of getting the big picture across (much better than Lynas&#8217; book, which I found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2579,"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions\/2579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}