{"id":156622,"date":"2015-05-02T00:15:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T00:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/02\/when-it-hit-above-43-degrees-celsius-in-sydney\/"},"modified":"2015-05-02T00:15:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T00:15:27","slug":"when-it-hit-above-43-degrees-celsius-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/02\/when-it-hit-above-43-degrees-celsius-in-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>when it hit above 43 degrees celsius in Sydney, weird things started happening. And by weird, I mean that bats. Just. Die. They can\u2019t regulate their heat anymore. They just fall down and die. Loads of them. Birds stop singing, because it\u2019s too hot to sing. The world just goes quiet.And there\u2019s me, standing there, thinking: well, more people need to know about this. There\u2019s the abstract effect of climate change, but there\u2019s that back of the neck chill, that absolute atavistic *fear* that something has gone terribly, terribly wrong when *the birds don\u2019t sing anymore*.That\u2019s what climate change is. Yes, yes, sea levels rising, increased instability due to food security and everything else.But it\u2019s going to get too hot for the birds to sing.That should scare the fuck out of you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyletter.com\/danhon\/letters\/episode-one-hundred-and-eighty-one-it-s-too-hot-monitor-this\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Hon<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/worsethandetroit.co.uk\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">worsethandetroit<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>when it hit above 43 degrees celsius in Sydney, weird things started happening. And by weird, I mean that bats. Just. Die. They can\u2019t regulate their heat anymore. They just fall down and die. Loads of them. Birds stop singing, because it\u2019s too hot to sing. The world just goes quiet.And there\u2019s me, standing there, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/02\/when-it-hit-above-43-degrees-celsius-in-sydney\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1078,2242,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}