{"id":92,"date":"2010-09-10T17:25:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T00:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2010-09-10T17:25:57","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T00:25:57","slug":"pacific-walrus-faces-dire-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/2010\/09\/10\/pacific-walrus-faces-dire-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Walrus Faces Dire Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is surely what the Very Worried Walrus<\/a> is worried about!<\/p>\n

A sobering press release today from the Center for Biological Diversity<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A new federal report today finds there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a 40-percent chance that the\u00c2\u00a0Pacific walrus<\/a>, a species imperiled by loss of sea ice due to global warming, will be on a pathway to extinction by the end of the century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Global warming, regardless of your political position on the issue, or whether it represents a (geologic) short-term change or a long term shift in the planet’s climate, is a serious threat to all cold climate large animals, particularly our beloved Walrus and the polar bear.<\/p>\n

Here’s a link to the complete document.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.biologicaldiversity.org\/news\/press_releases\/2010\/pacific-walrus-09-10-2010.html<\/a><\/p>\n

I need to see these animals in the wild before it’s too late, and I need to make sure I take my son with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is surely what the Very Worried Walrus is worried about! A sobering press release today from the Center for Biological Diversity: A new federal report today finds there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a 40-percent chance that the\u00c2\u00a0Pacific walrus, a species imperiled by loss of sea ice due to global warming, will be on a pathway to extinction by … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,31],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-the-real-world","tag-climate-change"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3peFG-1u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldwidewalrusweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}