{"id":337,"date":"2007-07-06T03:15:02","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T09:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=337"},"modified":"2007-07-06T03:15:43","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T09:15:43","slug":"calling-out-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Calling out China"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wait a minute. Are the environmentalist getting some perspective?<\/a><\/p>\n

China, by some reports the world’s largest carbon dioxide emitter, is a “crucial target” of the Live Earth concerts’ anti-global warning message, the United Nations representative in Beijing said Thursday.
\nChina’s business center of Shanghai is one of seven cities staging the 24-hour concerts on Saturday aimed at raising awareness of climate change.
\nThe location is poignant since the city is the linchpin of the booming Chinese economy – blamed for spewing ever-growing levels of green house gasses into the atmosphere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But . . . but . . it’s America that’s evil! We can’t blame the Chinese worker’s paradise!<\/p>\n

One thing that’s gone unnoticed is that the Bushies have been working<\/a> to reduce industrial methane — methane being 23 times as much of a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide and not a necessary byproduct of industry.<\/p>\n

Maybe they can get China to go along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wait a minute. Are the environmentalist getting some perspective? China, by some reports the world’s largest carbon dioxide emitter, is a “crucial target” of the Live Earth concerts’ anti-global warning message, the United Nations representative in Beijing said Thursday. China’s business center of Shanghai is one of seven cities staging the 24-hour concerts on Saturday … Continue reading Calling out China<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-5r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}