{"id":6328,"date":"2015-05-21T06:33:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T06:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6328"},"modified":"2015-05-21T06:33:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T06:33:09","slug":"the-end-of-the-world-is-upon-us-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/05\/21\/the-end-of-the-world-is-upon-us-yet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of the world is upon us (yet again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you come across <a href=\"http:\/\/guymcpherson.com\">Guy McPherson<\/a>? \u00a0He's an academic interested in climate science \/ change. \u00a0I only know about him because Dave Moreman mentioned him in his encounter with \"<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/05\/19\/what-happened-when-dave-asked-gareth-a-corker-of-a-question\/\">Ask Gareth<\/a>\" the other day.<\/p>\n<p>If you decide you'd like to watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C8w5_t7r6lw\">his<\/a>\u00a0latest video, you may want\u00a0to think hard about doing so, as McPherson\u00a0writes and talks about human extinction in the \"near term\"; this seems to be very soon \u2013 maybe even next week if the methane plumes get us before the plutonium\u00a0does. \u00a0He has a very gloomy message, but his audience at York University last week seemed to like it; well, they were very polite.<\/p>\n<p>If you do watch him, make sure you view\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fractalplanet.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/17\/how-guy-mcpherson-gets-it-wrong\/\">this<\/a> as well, for a bit of necessary balance. \u00a0Maybe we're not doomed after all \u2013 well not yet \u2013 and it may be safe to think about that September conference ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you come across Guy McPherson? \u00a0He's an academic interested in climate science \/ change. \u00a0I only know about him because Dave Moreman mentioned him in his encounter with \"Ask Gareth\" the other day. If you decide you'd like to...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}