{"id":1414,"date":"2007-09-26T15:34:39","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T03:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1414"},"modified":"2023-05-04T15:56:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T03:56:59","slug":"1414","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1414","title":{"rendered":"Love your Inuit neighbour as yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/tim_watkin\/2007\/09\/new_climate_change_pioneer.html\"><em>Guardian<\/em> somewhat impressed with NZ&#8217;s climate change response<\/a> <small>[via Rob]<\/small><\/p>\n<p>You may be interested to learn that another 900,000 km<sup>2<\/sup> of ice melted since <a href=\"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1397\">last time I mentioned it<\/a> a month ago. For comparison, New Zealand is about 270,000 km<sup>2<\/sup>. The ice cover got down to 4.1 million km<sup>2<\/sup>, and seems to have reached its minimum for the season, and has broken the previous record minimum by 1.2 million km<sup>2<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nsidc.org\/sites\/nsidc.org\/files\/images\/asina\/20070920_extent.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/nsidc.org\/sites\/nsidc.org\/files\/images\/asina\/20070920_extent.png\" width=\"416\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Arctic ice extent at 16 Sept 2007 (left), and the previous minimum \u2013 21 Sept 2005 (right)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>What can you do? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anzsee.org\/dodds.asp\">Steve Hatfield Dodds<\/a> suggests writing to your MP or city councillor to let them know climate change is important to you. <a href=\"http:\/\/42collective.org.nz\/less_cost_lifestyles.html\">42collective have eighty other suggestions.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian somewhat impressed with NZ&#8217;s climate change response [via Rob] You may be interested to learn that another 900,000 km2 of ice melted since last time I mentioned it a month ago. For comparison, New Zealand is about 270,000 km2. The ice cover got down to 4.1 million km2, and seems to have reached its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2233,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/2233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}