{"id":28101,"date":"2016-01-26T01:44:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T05:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=28101"},"modified":"2016-01-26T01:44:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T05:44:10","slug":"monday-night-global-warming-and-global-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2016\/01\/26\/monday-night-global-warming-and-global-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday night &#8211;  Global warming and global health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High point of today was going to see my cousin Dr. Jon Patz speak at UVM \u00a0on the Global warming. \u00a0It was a great talk.. He didn&#8217;t give\u00a0\u00a0one of those doom and gloom global warming talks.. instead he talked about how the health savings of avoiding global warming more than offset the costs of the mitigations required to control it.. It was a compelling argument !<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_6934.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jon did have some scary charts.. like this best case\/worst case on warming.. right now we&#8217;re on track for the one on the right !<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_6940.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and a chart showing relative carbon emissions vs mortality rates due to climate related problmes<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_6948.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jon talked about his times meeting the\u00a0Dali Lama..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_6951.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and the carbon impact of diet !<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_6960.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>eating bugs is an option !<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_6963.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>or maybe worms !<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_6965.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was so proud to be there .. here we are with Jon and Jean.. right after, we took them to their plane<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_6970.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ok.. 1AM.. and just finishing up work..<\/p>\n<p>time to sleep !!!<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High point of today was going to see my cousin Dr. Jon Patz speak at UVM \u00a0on the Global warming. \u00a0It was a great talk.. He didn&#8217;t give\u00a0\u00a0one of those doom and gloom global warming talks.. instead he talked about how the health savings of avoiding global warming more than offset the costs of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2016\/01\/26\/monday-night-global-warming-and-global-health\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday night &#8211;  Global warming and global health<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28142,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28101\/revisions\/28142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}