{"id":488,"date":"2012-07-10T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/?p=488"},"modified":"2012-07-10T11:17:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T15:17:09","slug":"climate-change-shock-awe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"Climate change shock & awe!"},"content":{"rendered":"

An excellent climate change explainer (awesome!), and discussion of climate change on a Sunday morning talk show (shocking!)??<\/h4>\n

Everybody’s been talking about the weather. With fires raging in Colorado<\/a>, record breaking heat all across the country<\/a>, a \u201cpost-derecho\u201d Washington, DC sizzling in 100-plus degree temps without electricity or air conditioning<\/a>, the impact due to \u201cclimate change\u201d<\/a> and how we will need to adapt<\/a> to it has been the topic of much discussion on the interwebs.<\/p>\n

Wondering about how and why climate change will<\/strong><\/em> impact us for generations to come? Want to watch 17 minutes of awesome? Take a look at an excellent climate change explainer – a talk given by David Roberts of Grist<\/a> at a TEDx<\/a> event back in April called \u201cHello Climate Change: Rethinking the Unthinkable<\/a>\u201d at The Evergreen State College. Roberts blogs about the talk at Grist: \u201cClimate change is simple: We do something or we\u2019re screwed [my TEDx\u00a0video]<\/em><\/a>,\u201d and you can watch it below:<\/p>\n