{"id":1503,"date":"2009-10-15T00:10:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T23:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1503"},"modified":"2013-11-12T21:57:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T21:57:14","slug":"the-ice-age-is-coming-blog-action-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/the-ice-age-is-coming-blog-action-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ice Age is Coming (Blog Action Day)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

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"For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures." Reported by the BBC 9\/10\/2009<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

I came across that quote while researching for this year's Blog Action Day post on 'Climate Change'. So much for the evidence of global warming.
<\/span> Global warming?<\/span><\/p>\n

For me, clean air, clean rivers<\/a>, and abundant wildlife are the signs we are getting it right. Pollution and decay, signs we are getting it wrong. The climate will change (it always has) and it will get warmer (and colder). It always has. There will be catastrophic weather events<\/a>, crops will fail (and there will be years of bumper harvests). Drought will follow flood. These are as near to certainties as we can get. The science will lead to change (even if not 'climate change'); and more efficient use of resources (read: reduce CO2<\/sub> emissions) is certainly a worthwhile goal. So while I remain cynical about the headline claims, I do support moves to reduce carbon emissions, to reduce unnecessary exploitation of finite resources, to use clean and renewable energy. These things make sense whatever the weather happens to be doing outside.<\/p>\n

So me? I'll continue to wrap up warm (or wear a sun hat), take out a camera, observe the richness and beauty of nature, and follow the changing seasons.<\/p>\n

And wherever I go I will leave a small carbon footprint to mark my passage. But it won't be as small as her footprint. <\/p>\n

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\"Nature<\/a><\/span>
Camera note: snow scene taken in February this year with the Canon 40D and EF17-40mm f\/4L USM lens. The vixen was photographed tonight with the 40D and EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO IS lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,595,1128],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blog-action-day","tag-climate-change","tag-fox","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}