{"id":17686,"date":"2019-11-24T14:22:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T19:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=17686"},"modified":"2019-11-24T14:22:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T19:22:40","slug":"reasons-to-be-climate-cheerful-ish-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/reasons-to-be-climate-cheerful-ish-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons to be climate cheerful (ish) \u2013 TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sunflower.jpg?w=980&#038;ssl=1' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Cheerful? Maybe not.<br \/>\nOptimistic? Maybe. #RelativeOptimism.<\/p>\n<p>New research suggests that methane leakage from coal mines, alone \u2014 without even considering burning the coal after it\u2019s mined! \u2014 has \u201ca greater warming impact than aviation and shipping combined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Article &#8216;Reasons to be climate cheerful (ish) \u2013 TechCrunch&#8217; originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Techcrunch\/~3\/9fVl3jFyZTc\/\">https:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Techcrunch\/~3\/9fVl3jFyZTc\/<\/a><br \/>\nJamie&#8217;s comments are his own.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheerful? Maybe not. Optimistic? Maybe. #RelativeOptimism. New research suggests that methane leakage from coal mines, alone \u2014 without even considering burning the coal after it\u2019s mined! \u2014 has \u201ca greater warming impact than aviation and shipping combined.\u201d The Article &#8216;Reasons to be climate cheerful (ish) \u2013 TechCrunch&#8217; originally appeared on https:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Techcrunch\/~3\/9fVl3jFyZTc\/ Jamie&#8217;s comments are his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[582,586,590,589,565,587,588,585,591,456],"tags":[593,597,596,96,598,594,595,592,523,33],"class_list":["post-17686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-editorial-2","category-imho","category-imo","category-jamiegray","category-moregray","category-myopinion","category-opinion-3","category-sharedlink","category-jamie-gray","tag-editorial","tag-imho-blogger","tag-imo","tag-jamiegray","tag-link","tag-moregray","tag-myopinion","tag-opinion","tag-blog","tag-jamie-gray"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17195,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/smart-speakers-hit-critical-mass-in-2018\/","url_meta":{"origin":17686,"position":0},"title":"Smart speakers hit critical mass in 2018","date":"December 28, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Smart speakers sound like a great idea...until Alexa's AI decides to kill you. 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