{"id":57,"date":"2024-11-30T08:19:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T08:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/happy-news\/?p=57"},"modified":"2024-12-01T18:09:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T18:09:12","slug":"we-might-be-closer-to-changing-course-on-climate-change-than-we-realized-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saswe.net\/good-news-only\/we-might-be-closer-to-changing-course-on-climate-change-than-we-realized-2\/","title":{"rendered":"We might be closer to changing course on climate change than we realized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earth is coming out of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/23969523\/climate-change-cop28-paris-1-5-c-uae-2023-record-warm\">hottest year on record<\/a>, amplifying the destruction from hurricanes, wildfires, heat waves, and drought. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/environment\/oceans-record-hot-rcna143179\">oceans remain alarmingly warm<\/a>, triggering the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/down-to-earth\/24098428\/scientists-ocean-coral-spawning-bleaching-great-barrier-reef\">fourth global coral bleaching event in history<\/a>. Concentrations of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere have reached levels\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.climate.columbia.edu\/2023\/12\/07\/a-new-66-million-year-history-of-carbon-dioxide-offers-little-comfort-for-today\/\">not seen on this planet for millions of years<\/a>, while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sustainability.stanford.edu\/news\/global-carbon-emissions-fossil-fuels-reached-record-high-2023\">humanity\u2019s demand for the fossil fuels<\/a>\u00a0that produce this pollution is the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/images\/152519\/emissions-from-fossil-fuels-continue-to-rise\">highest it has ever been<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth is coming out of the\u00a0hottest year on record, amplifying the destruction from hurricanes, wildfires, heat waves, and drought. The\u00a0oceans remain alarmingly warm, triggering the\u00a0fourth global coral bleaching event in history. Concentrations of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere have reached levels\u00a0not seen on this planet for millions of years, while\u00a0humanity\u2019s demand for the fossil fuels\u00a0that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","category-happy-earth","category-latest-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saswe.net\/good-news-only\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saswe.net\/good-news-only\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saswe.net\/good-news-only\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saswe.net\/good-news-only\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saswe.net\/good-news-only\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.saswe.net\/good-news-only\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/www.saswe.net\/good-news-only\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saswe.net\/good-news-only\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saswe.net\/good-news-only\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saswe.net\/good-news-only\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saswe.net\/good-news-only\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}