{"id":4100,"date":"2024-03-08T08:48:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T13:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4100"},"modified":"2024-03-08T08:48:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T13:48:22","slug":"whats-so-bad-about-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4100","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s So Bad About Climate Change?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/JPA435.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"416\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/JPA435.jpg\" alt=\"What's So Bad About Climate Change?\" class=\"wp-image-4101\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/JPA435.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/JPA435-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Both Catholicism and&nbsp;<em>The Twilight Zone&nbsp;<\/em>have trained me to beware pleasant situations \u2014 enjoy them too much and there will be unpleasant consequences. It&#8217;s either just straight-up guilt or you&#8217;re granted your wish to be the ruler of a powerful nation and \u2014 poof! \u2014 you&#8217;re Hitler at the end of the war in a bunker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, sorry, this recent lack of winter and beautiful spring days? It can&#8217;t all be good. One of the reasons why Michigan is such a beautiful place is that the harsh winters do a great job of making dormant (or killing off) annoying, nasty, disease-carrying pests. If you want it to be above freezing all year long, well, then you also get the bugs, flies, spiders, reptiles, and other creepy-crawly things that come with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that reason enough to be concerned about climate change?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both Catholicism and&nbsp;The Twilight Zone&nbsp;have trained me to beware pleasant situations \u2014 enjoy them too much and there will be unpleasant consequences. It&#8217;s either just straight-up guilt or you&#8217;re granted your wish to be the ruler of a powerful nation and \u2014 poof! \u2014 you&#8217;re Hitler at the end of the war in a bunker. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4102,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100\/revisions\/4102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}