{"id":263,"date":"2012-07-23T09:17:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T13:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/?p=263"},"modified":"2012-07-23T09:20:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T13:20:30","slug":"please-hear-what-bill-mckibben-is-telling-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/2012\/07\/23\/please-hear-what-bill-mckibben-is-telling-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Please hear what Bill McKibben is telling us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Global Warming's Terrifying New Math\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"global warming\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.rollingstone.com\/assets\/images\/story\/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719\/1000x600\/main.jpg?resize=584%2C395\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"395\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The time is now<\/strong>, we need to focus on conservation and utilizing renewable energy. We must reduce our carbon output. We are running out of time!<\/p>\n<p>June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States. That followed the warmest May on record for the Northern Hemisphere \u2013 the 327th consecutive month in which the temperature of the entire globe exceeded the 20th-century average, the odds of which occurring by simple chance were 3.7 x 10-99, a number considerably larger than the number of stars in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Meteorologists reported that this spring was the warmest ever recorded for our nation \u2013 in fact, it crushed the old record by so much that it represented the &#8220;largest temperature departure from average of any season on record.&#8221; The same week, Saudi authorities reported that it had rained in Mecca despite a temperature of 109 degrees, the hottest downpour in the planet&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>These facts were taken from <a title=\"Global Warming's Terrifying New Math\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719\" target=\"_blank\">Bill McKibben&#8217;s article in Rolling Stone Magazine<\/a>. Please read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time is now, we need to focus on conservation and utilizing renewable energy. We must reduce our carbon output. We are running out of time! June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States. 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