{"id":355,"date":"2016-11-20T14:22:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T14:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/?p=355"},"modified":"2022-03-09T21:39:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T21:39:19","slug":"holding-the-world-in-their-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/2016\/11\/20\/holding-the-world-in-their-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Holding the World in their Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christina Hui &#8217;17 and Patrick Houston &#8217;17 take a hands-on approach to saving the world from the cataclysmic effects of climate change at COP22 in Marrakesh during the second week of the conference.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/holding_world-e1479390484911.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-333\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-333 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/holding_world-e1479390484911-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Christina Hui and Patrick Houston take a hands-on approach to saving the world from the cataclysmic effects of climate change at COP22 in Marrakesh. There were warnings from Sec. State John Kerry, Jeffrey Sachs (Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia), and others that if all nations met their &quot;ambitions&quot;, we would still be far short of what was needed to meet a target of 1.5 degrees Centegrade rise in CO2 emissions over pre-industrial levels.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/holding_world-e1479390484911-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/holding_world-e1479390484911.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were warnings from Sec. State John Kerry, Jeffrey Sachs (Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia), and others that if all nations met their \u201cambitions\u201d, we would still be far short of what was needed to meet a target of 1.5 degrees Centegrade rise in CO2 emissions over pre-industrial levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christina Hui &#8217;17 and Patrick Houston &#8217;17 take a hands-on approach to saving the world from the cataclysmic effects of climate change at COP22 in Marrakesh during the second week of the conference. There were warnings from Sec. State John Kerry, Jeffrey Sachs (Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia), and others that if all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/2016\/11\/20\/holding-the-world-in-their-hands\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Holding the World in their Hands<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}