{"id":12254,"date":"2013-12-12T16:29:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T23:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/disturbing-greenpeace-santa-issues-appeal-to-save-his-home-from-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2013-12-12T18:09:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T01:09:31","slug":"disturbing-greenpeace-santa-issues-appeal-to-save-his-home-from-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/disturbing-greenpeace-santa-issues-appeal-to-save-his-home-from-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Disturbing Greenpeace Santa issues appeal to save his home from climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"In a video from Greenpeace, global warming has taken its toll on Santa Claus and the North Pole.\" alt=\"In a video from Greenpeace, global warming has taken its toll on Santa Claus and the North Pole.\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn2-b.examiner.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/mobile_rss\/hash\/2f\/b0\/2fb0b05a897a7d44b0c8629ae04c29e8.jpg?itok=Q1Q692ZE\" width=\"320\" height=\"194\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a video from Greenpeace, global warming has taken its toll on Santa Claus and the North Pole.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Global warming has prompted Santa Claus to issue an urgent appeal to children to help save his home in the Arctic. In a new video from the radical environmental group Greenpeace, the jolly old elf hardly looks like himself as he announces, \u201cI bring bad tidings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With labored breaths, Santa says, \u201cFor some time now melting ice, here, at the North Pole has made our operations and our day to day life intolerable and impossible and there may be no alternative but to cancel Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The timing of Greenpeace\u2019s video is arguably not the best.<\/p>\n<p>The Arctic sea ice minimum, reached in September,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nsidc.org\/arcticseaicenews\/2013\/09\/draft-arctic-sea-ice-reaches-lowest-extent-for-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">saw a 49% increase over the previous year<\/a>. That represents an increase of 653,000 square miles giving Santa and the reindeer quite a bit more snow and ice to play on and use to prepare for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/disturbing-greenpeace-santa-issues-appeal-to-save-his-home-from-climate-change?cid=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Read the complete story and watch the video on Examiner.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global warming has prompted Santa Claus to issue an urgent appeal to children to help save his home in the Arctic. In a new video from the radical environmental group Greenpeace, the jolly old elf hardly looks like himself as he announces, \u201cI bring bad tidings.\u201d With labored breaths, Santa says, \u201cFor some time now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/disturbing-greenpeace-santa-issues-appeal-to-save-his-home-from-climate-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Disturbing Greenpeace Santa issues appeal to save his home from climate change<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,540],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12257,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12254\/revisions\/12257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}