{"id":77,"date":"2009-11-28T22:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2016-03-13T19:51:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T18:51:22","slug":"pivotal-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/pivotal-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Pivotal Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pivot-image\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; border: 0px solid;\" title=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_90.html\" src=\"\/blog\/export_genericmt.php_files\/mars.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_90.html\" \/> We seem to be discovering, at the same time as we warm up our own planet to dangerous levels, that billions of years of ago <a title=\"Giant Ocean Covered Mars New Map Reveals - The Independent\" rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/giant-ocean-covered-mars-new-map-reveals-1826441.html\">Mars was possibly as habitable as the Earth<\/a> used to be till we started <a title=\"The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\" rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/\">mucking about with it<\/a>.<br \/>\nIt suggests that there is evidence &#8216;next door&#8217; in the solar system of<br \/>\nthe dangers of climate change.  This at a time when, as a community, <a title=\"United Nations Climate Change Conference Dec7 - Dec18 2009\" rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/en.cop15.dk\/\">the human race are making momentous decisions about our long term future<\/a>.  And yet some are arguing for us to abandon the Earth and try and <a title=\"Forget Earth - let's move to Mars! - The Independent\" rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/forget-earth--lets-move-to-mars-1826775.html\">set up home on Mars<\/a>!<br \/>\nLet us hope that as the coming weeks unfold, the <a title=\"Leaders Will Delay Deal on Climate Change - New York Times\" rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/15\/world\/asia\/15prexy.html?_r=2&amp;ref=global-home\">people on whose watch this crucial time has fallen<\/a> have their feet on the ground &#8211; for <a title=\"Climate map shows world after 4C rise\" rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/interactive\/2009\/oct\/22\/climate-change-carbon-emissions\">all our sakes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We seem to be discovering, at the same time as we warm up our own planet to dangerous levels, that billions of years of ago Mars was possibly as habitable as the Earth used to be till we started mucking about with it. It suggests that there is evidence &#8216;next door&#8217; in the solar system &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/pivotal-moment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pivotal Moment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tubthumper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}