{"id":12799,"date":"2014-05-17T02:06:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T09:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12799"},"modified":"2014-05-17T02:06:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T09:06:49","slug":"endangered-species-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/17\/endangered-species-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered Species Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had never heard of the first eight of these, but May 17 is the ninth annual Endangered species day.  This year the focus is on the species that are likely to die out due to the effects of global climate change.  For Republican readers, \u201cEndangered Species Day\u201d is not the title of an exclusive restaurant\u2019s special menu.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0517ESDayLogo\"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated today the ninth annual Endangered Species day<\/a>, a day to recognize America\u2019s most imperiled animals. When given this task, many will likely think of the polar bear, and its increasingly fragile arctic habitat \u2014 a phenomenon not-so-subtly connected<\/a> to climate change.<\/p>\n

As HBO host John Oliver so poignantly put it last week, \u201cno climate report is complete without the obligatory photo of a polar bear balancing on a piece of ice.\u201d And he\u2019s right \u2014 the disappearing polar bear has indeed become an emotional symbol of how man-made emissions of carbon dioxide are threatening the natural world. <\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not just the polar bears that are hurting. Scientists recently warned that one-third of animal species across the world are likely to lose half or more of their habitat range if global temperatures increase by more than 4\u00b0C by 2100<\/strong>. And while many of these animals have been migrating with haste<\/a> to avoid these challenges, the globe is still in the throes of one of the worst rates of species die-offs<\/a> since the end of the dinosaur age. If global carbon emissions aren\u2019t reduced, those rates only stand to increase.<\/p>\n

So in honor of Endangered Species Day, here are five species most at risk from climate change in the U.S. \u2014 some of which you may be surprised to see\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

Click through for pictures and bios of the five most endangered species.  Thousands more are at risk.  Sadly Republican science deniers are not on the list.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had never heard of the first eight of these, but May 17 is the ninth annual Endangered species day.  This year the focus is on the species that are likely to die out due to the effects of global climate change.  For Republican readers, \u201cEndangered Species Day\u201d is not the title of an exclusive […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}