{"id":166,"date":"2009-08-22T07:09:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2009-08-22T07:09:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:09:42","slug":"nebraska-or-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/22\/nebraska-or-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska or bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever heard of the Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica? Well, now you have. And, in the eyes (test tubes) of climate gurus, it&#8217;s melting faster than a popsicle in Hell. In fact, those pesky iceberg things appear to be vanishing so quickly that most climate forecasts will soon be yesterday&#8217;s science fiction, badly in need of revision. And it doesn&#8217;t look good, depending on your opinion of rising sea levels.<\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s an intrepid Earthling to do in these dizzy times of ever morphing temperatures, habitat flip-flop, and species rearrangement? Adapt!<\/p>\n<p>From the look of things, you might want to consider buying a nice chunk of dirt somewhere in the sandhills of Nebraska, a.s.a.p. It might not be the pinnacle of hip culture, but think long &#8211; like Warren Buffet.<\/p>\n<p>I figure western Nebraska&#8217;s average mid-January temperature will be 75 degrees by 2028. Summer might get a bit toasty, but there&#8217;s opportunity in heat waves (water-based theme park, for example, complete with buffalo rides,  and an organic hot dog stand).<\/p>\n<p>Only those adventurers willing to think (and live) outside the proverbial Box are going to have fun as the planet turns into a Circus of Doom. Plan ahead! Don&#8217;t become relegated to crass cannibalism as your sole means of survival (wasn&#8217;t that what they did in some Cormac McCarthy movie? Or am I thinking <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soylent_Green\">Charlton Heston?)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/features.csmonitor.com\/environment\/2009\/08\/21\/of-farming-methane-bubbles-and-antarctic-glaciers\/\">Alas&#8230;. this doesn&#8217;t look like Kansas anymore. So we&#8217;re off to Nebraska!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever heard of the Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica? Well, now you have. And, in the eyes (test tubes) of climate gurus, it&#8217;s melting faster than a popsicle in Hell. In fact, those pesky iceberg things appear to be vanishing so quickly that most climate forecasts will soon be yesterday&#8217;s science fiction, badly in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}