{"id":181,"date":"2009-11-14T16:26:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T00:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.russbishop.com\/blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2012-02-03T16:52:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T00:52:14","slug":"going-going-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/going-going-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Going, going, gone&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/russbishop.photoshelter.com\/img-show\/I0000rpbQ3gMMO4k\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"905538hx.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000rpbQ3gMMO4k\/s\/600\/398\/905538hx.jpg\" alt=\"Man sitting on rock looking at icebergs on lake below Mount Edith Cavell, Canadian Rockies, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada (Russ Bishop\/Russ Bishop Photography)\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My last post illustrated the dramatic\u00a0destruction that mother nature can unleash from below the earth&#8217;s surface &#8211; a powerful force that\u00a0destroys everything in its path.\u00a0Still as devastating (and impressive) as a volcanic eruption\u00a0can be, it&#8217;s an isolated event and the damage it causes is limited in scope.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, global warming\u00a0is\u00a0an unnatural event that although much slower than\u00a0lava (and much less attractive) has a far greater\u00a0impact on our planet. As a\u00a0nature photographer I&#8217;m naturally concerned about the effect this has on the source of my\u00a0livelihood and the places I&#8217;m\u00a0passionate about, and as an environmentalist I&#8217;m doing everything I can to reduce my carbon footprint from driving a hybrid to filling my downtime with muscle powered sports.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s ironic that NASA just discovered water\u00a0on the moon that may someday support human life, while the waters here at home are continuing to rise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last post illustrated the dramatic\u00a0destruction that mother nature can unleash from below the earth&#8217;s surface &#8211; a powerful force that\u00a0destroys everything in its path.\u00a0Still as devastating (and impressive) as a volcanic eruption\u00a0can be, it&#8217;s an isolated event and the damage it causes is limited in scope. In contrast, global warming\u00a0is\u00a0an unnatural event that although &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/going-going-gone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Going, going, gone&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,8],"tags":[39,172,40,41,168,169,36,53,46],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-nature-photography","tag-canada","tag-glaciers","tag-global-warming","tag-iceberg","tag-jasper","tag-lake","tag-national-parks","tag-rocky-mountains","tag-water"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}