{"id":1006,"date":"2009-07-30T16:09:39","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T22:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.envirobeat.com\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2009-07-30T16:09:39","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T22:09:39","slug":"john-kerry-who-lost-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=1006","title":{"rendered":"Op-ed by John Kerry: Who Lost the Earth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Kerry&#8217;s Huffingon Post Op-Ed on U.S. \/ China Cooperation on Climate Change.\u00a0 His key summary of scientific details sounds very much\u00a0 in line with the narrative presented by the scientists at Copenhagen&#8217;s Climate Congress last March:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And make no mistake, unless we act dramatically &#8212; and act fast &#8212; science tells us our climate and our way of life are literally in jeopardy. Just the basics: In the industrial era, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have risen from 280 to 385 parts per million. Scientists have drawn a red line at 450ppm &#8212; which represents a warming of 2 degrees Celsius. Anything beyond that presents an unacceptable risk. But unless we take dramatic action &#8212; now &#8212; we are actually headed to 1,000 ppm by century&#8217;s end. And today, over 40% of those emissions belong to the United States and China.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/john-kerry\/who-lost-the-earth_b_248145.html\">John Kerry: Who Lost the Earth?<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kerry&#8217;s Huffingon Post Op-Ed on U.S. \/ China Cooperation on Climate Change.\u00a0 His key summary of scientific details sounds very much\u00a0 in line with the narrative presented by the scientists at Copenhagen&#8217;s Climate Congress last March: &#8216;And make no mistake, unless we act dramatically &#8212; and act fast &#8212; science tells us our climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}