{"id":312646,"date":"2017-05-09T09:10:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T13:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=d8831d1816328938fb10d710c8c6fed7"},"modified":"2017-05-09T09:10:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T13:10:09","slug":"extreme-weather-just-might-encourage-us-to-get-our-act-together-on-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=312646","title":{"rendered":"Extreme weather just might encourage us to get our act together on global warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much has been written about our incredible psychological ability to ignore or gloss over the threat of climate change. According to Irina Bokova, director general of UNESCO, &#8220;the gap between what we know about the interconnectedness and fragility of our planetary system and what we are actually doing about it is alarming. And it is deepening&#8221;. This gap between knowing and doing can be explained, in part, by our tendency to reach for defence mechanisms in response to the realities of climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much has been written about our incredible psychological ability to ignore or gloss over the threat of climate change. According to Irina Bokova, director general of UNESCO, &#8220;the gap between what we know about the interconnectedness and fragility of ou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312647,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312646\/revisions\/312647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}