{"id":19477,"date":"2014-04-30T09:45:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T14:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=19477"},"modified":"2014-04-30T09:45:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T14:45:50","slug":"government-responsibility-in-addressing-weather-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/30\/government-responsibility-in-addressing-weather-disasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Responsibility in Addressing Weather Disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US National Weather Service does a pretty good job at predicting weather, but there are problems.  In fact, we are behind compared to other nations, and parts of our infrastructure is deteriorating.  Paul Douglas<a href=\"http:\/\/pauldouglasweather.blogspot.com\/2013\/06\/slow-cooling-trend-favorite-smartphone.html\"> has been telling people<\/a> for some time that we need to pay attention to our aging satellite  system, and here Kate Sheppard talks about the slow but steady development of legislation to advance our storm prediction abilities:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/2E2eJC\/EmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_lw_Btornado_140428' height='500' width='635' scrolling='no' border='no' ><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US National Weather Service does a pretty good job at predicting weather, but there are problems. In fact, we are behind compared to other nations, and parts of our infrastructure is deteriorating. Paul Douglas has been telling people for some time that we need to pay attention to our aging satellite system, and here &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/30\/government-responsibility-in-addressing-weather-disasters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Government Responsibility in Addressing Weather Disasters<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[148,3277,849,1192,3278],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-549","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}