{"id":5898,"date":"2016-10-14T20:06:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T01:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=5898"},"modified":"2016-12-06T18:19:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T00:19:32","slug":"that-darn-climate-change-conspiracy-ctd-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/10\/14\/that-darn-climate-change-conspiracy-ctd-24\/","title":{"rendered":"That Darn Climate Change Conspiracy, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the diseases that lands high on my &#8220;oh, crap&#8221; list is\u00a0<em>Naegleria fowleri<\/em>, or the amoeba that enters its human victims by the nose, often while they&#8217;re swimming in a lake, and destroy their brain &#8211; and is virtually incurable, with only a couple of known survivors. So while reading an article in <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(1 October 2016) on some progress on discovering why it prefers brains (over, say, toe-nail clippings), I was dismayed at the final thoughts on the subject:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This could become a more urgent problem in the coming years \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/cid.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/54\/6\/805.long\">infections are predicted to rise as the climate warms<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And yet another reason to take climate change seriously &#8211; I mean, who wants a world where half the epitaphs are &#8220;I died because my brain was eaten by amoebas&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the diseases that lands high on my &#8220;oh, crap&#8221; list is\u00a0Naegleria fowleri, or the amoeba that enters its human victims by the nose, often while they&#8217;re swimming in a lake, and destroy their brain &#8211; and is virtually incurable, with only a couple of known survivors. So while \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/10\/14\/that-darn-climate-change-conspiracy-ctd-24\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7034,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions\/7034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}