{"id":2448204,"date":"2019-08-30T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/congress-has-climate-change-on-its-radar\/"},"modified":"2019-09-02T08:38:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T14:38:35","slug":"congress-has-climate-change-on-its-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/congress-has-climate-change-on-its-radar\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress has climate change on its radar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In a recent letter to the editor (\u201cTime to retire the deniers,\u201d Aug. 27, aspentimes.com), Patrick Hunter is certainly right to call for a \u201cwar on global warming\u201d to counteract the increased frequency and intensity of fires and flooding, not to mention the rising oceans that threaten millions in the low-elevation coastal zones, which are growing at a faster rate than other populations (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/<\/a> articles\/PMC4367969\/) and to call out the oval office occupant for being a denier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Fortunately we have another branch of government that can override the executive branch. Something is already being done in Congress. Almost 50 representatives support HR763: The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Dublin Galyean<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">South Pasadena, California<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/congress-has-climate-change-on-its-radar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent letter to the editor (\u201cTime to retire the deniers,\u201d Aug. 27, aspentimes.com), Patrick Hunter is certainly right to call for a \u201cwar on global warming\u201d to counteract the increased frequency and intensity of fires and flooding, not to mention the rising oceans that threaten millions in the low-elevation coastal zones, which are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 23:21:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448252,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448204\/revisions\/2448252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}