{"id":326,"date":"2005-01-28T23:20:21","date_gmt":"2005-01-28T21:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=326"},"modified":"2005-01-28T23:20:21","modified_gmt":"2005-01-28T21:20:21","slug":"climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to research by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climateprediction.net\">climateprediction.net,<\/a> climate sensitivities due to increased greenhouse gases will vary between 2 and 11 degrees C, much greater than the range of 2-6 degrees C previously accepted.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;re still so many vested-interest claims going around claiming that global warming is still a theory, not proven, no need to change our behaviour and use less oil. After the recent tsunami there was an article, the gist of which was <em>look how strong nature is, what can us, poor man, do to something so powerful<\/em>. Well, yes and no. Life will carry on, regardless of human intervention, but we&#8217;ve got quite a say in what sort of life that is, and if it includes us. By some standards nothing is known for sure, poor old Descartes couldn&#8217;t get beyond <em>I think therefore I am<\/em>. Well, the evidence is mounting that human impacts are going to have a dramatic effect on life on this planet. But why don&#8217;t you put your own PC to good use. I&#8217;ve always been interested in research that uses PC&#8217;s to do the slogwork, but working out the 10 millionth prime number didn&#8217;t seem that exciting. Now I&#8217;ve finally found something that puts this hunk of metal to better use.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/cpdnboinc\/download_main.php\">download an application<\/a> that will perform climate modelling calculations while you&#8217;re not busy on your PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to research by climateprediction.net, climate sensitivities due to increased greenhouse gases will vary between 2 and 11 degrees C, much greater than the range of 2-6 degrees C previously accepted. There&#8217;re still so many vested-interest claims going around claiming that global warming is still a theory, not proven, no need to change our behaviour&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=326\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Climate Change<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metal-technical","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}