{"id":51,"date":"2006-09-26T21:47:42","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T01:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/2006\/09\/26\/we-are-headed-to-a-tropical-world\/"},"modified":"2006-09-28T08:37:20","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:37:20","slug":"we-are-headed-to-a-tropical-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/2006\/09\/26\/we-are-headed-to-a-tropical-world\/","title":{"rendered":"We are headed to a tropical world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The alarming rise in CO2 levels in our atmosphere will undoubtedly have severe consequences for our planet in the not to distance future. If today\u2019s levels are at 380ppm, and we continue to emit CO2 at current levels, we are certainly headed for a tropical world.\u00a0 <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The negative effects are illustrated by the warming of the earth\u2019s atmosphere, with the past century being the warmest on record in the past 1000 years.\u00a0 Also, the melting of the ice caps and changing of the sea levels will certainly have grave consequences for those near the coast line, as many will be displaced due to rising levels.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it is only a matter of time when places like Bangladesh and even in Louisiana (again) are greatly affected by the impact of global warming.\u00a0 <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">We certainly MUST change the way we live our lives if we have any chance of reversing this unfortunate path to a tropical, unstable world.\u00a0 <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The alarming rise in CO2 levels in our atmosphere will undoubtedly have severe consequences for our planet in the not to distance future. If today\u2019s levels are at 380ppm, and we continue to emit CO2 at current levels, we are certainly headed for a tropical world.\u00a0 The negative effects are illustrated by the warming of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}