{"id":569,"date":"2007-12-10T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/10\/from-obscurity-to-infamy-sidr\/"},"modified":"2007-12-10T13:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T13:00:01","slug":"from-obscurity-to-infamy-sidr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/10\/from-obscurity-to-infamy-sidr\/","title":{"rendered":"From Obscurity to Infamy: Sidr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sort of. The hurricane that the press ignored until it was impossible to ignore is now listed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/specials\/2007\/top10\/article\/0,30583,1686204_1686252_1690260,00.html\">Time&#8217;s Top Ten Natural Disasters of 2007.<\/a><!--more-->I don&#8217;t like the sound of that at all:  &#8220;Top Ten Natural Disasters.&#8221;  Maybe I&#8217;m used to &#8220;top ten&#8221; being good things.  Maybe that&#8217;s just me.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Packing winds of over 100 mph, the storm took out power lines and trees, and pulverized mud and thatch homes. The death toll was over 1,000, with more than half a million people forced to flee their homes. But by Bangladesh&#8217;s sad standards, Sidr was nothing &#8212; a cyclone in 1991 killed an astounding 140,000 people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are they showing regrets? Suggesting that we should wait until Bangladesh gets a <em>real <\/em>cyclone?Of all of the &#8220;top ten&#8221; natural disasters, only number 8 is <em>NOT <\/em>a the kind of disaster that we expect to see in increasing frequency and severity as a consequence of global warming.  (Number 8is an earthquake).So, really the top ten are two:  A bad  earthquake and a few decades of Global Warming Deniers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sort of. The hurricane that the press ignored until it was impossible to ignore is now listed on Time&#8217;s Top Ten Natural Disasters of 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[161,148,124,97],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-9b","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"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=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}