{"id":3871,"date":"2022-04-03T14:07:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T14:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/a-year-after-year-disaster-the-american-west-could-face-a-brutal-century-under-climate-change-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2022-04-03T14:07:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T14:07:45","slug":"a-year-after-year-disaster-the-american-west-could-face-a-brutal-century-under-climate-change-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/04\/03\/a-year-after-year-disaster-the-american-west-could-face-a-brutal-century-under-climate-change-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;A year after year disaster:&#039; The American West could face a &#039;brutal&#039; century under climate change &#8211; USA TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 The West, once a beacon for all that was new and hopeful in America,\u00a0could\u00a0become an example of the grim, apocalyptic future the nation faces from climate change.\u00a0<br \/>The last five years already have been harrowing.<br \/>Whole <a href=\"\/story\/news\/2017\/10\/15\/residents-seek-normalcy-wildfire-hit-santa-rosa\/765313001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">neighborhoods<\/a> burned down to foundations. Children kept indoors because the air outside is <a href=\"\/story\/news\/nation\/2020\/08\/24\/california-wildfires-air-quality-increasingly-unhealthy\/3431014001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">too dangerous<\/a> to play in. <a href=\"\/in-depth\/news\/investigations\/2021\/11\/30\/wildfire-rainfall-mudslides-disasters\/6201564001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Killer mudslides<\/a> of burned debris destroying towns.\u00a0<a href=\"\/story\/news\/2020\/09\/10\/california-wildfires-smoke-ash-orange-sky-creek-fire-big-sur-air-quality\/5769583002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Blood-red skies<\/a>\u00a0that are so dark at midday, the\u00a0streetlights come on and postal workers\u00a0wear headlamps to deliver the mail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2022\/04\/02\/climate-change-american-west-air-pollution-fires-floods-studies\/7213780001\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 The West, once a beacon for all that was new and hopeful in America,\u00a0could\u00a0become an example of the grim, apocalyptic future the nation faces from climate change.\u00a0The last five years already have been harrowing.Whole neighborhoods burned down to foundations. Children kept indoors because the air outside is too dangerous to play in. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}