{"id":1682,"date":"2016-05-09T13:29:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T18:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2016-05-09T13:29:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T18:29:43","slug":"sen-ken-harr-planning-is-better-than-name-calling-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/09\/sen-ken-harr-planning-is-better-than-name-calling-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ken Harr: Planning is better than name-calling on climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/journalstar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lincoln Journal Star<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Instead of engaging in demagoguery around climate change like (<a href=\"http:\/\/journalstar.com\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/columnists\/george-will-the-settled-consensus-du-jour\/article_c821113b-e77d-53be-9444-d46615c6d3ad.html\" target=\"_blank\">George Will in his April 25 column<\/a>), Nebraska scientists and policy makers are taking steps to address climate change. This session I introduced LR455, which created a special legislative committee to address both the risks and the opportunities from climate change for Nebraska\u2019s people. This committee is composed of seven members from all across the state representing a wide spectrum of political views. The committee will create the framework for a Nebraska Climate Action Plan based on a consensus of scientific evidence, including input from nationally recognized experts from UNL who assembled the 2014 report on the impacts of climate change in Nebraska (Climate Change Implications for Nebraska).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journalstar.com\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/columnists\/local-view-planning-better-than-name-calling-on-climate-change\/article_294422ef-53a4-50fb-8269-c4056c07a71d.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full\u00a0Local View op-ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Lincoln Journal Star: Instead of engaging in demagoguery around climate change like (George Will in his April 25 column), Nebraska scientists and policy makers are taking steps to address climate change. This session I introduced LR455, which created a special legislative committee to address both the risks and the opportunities from climate change &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/09\/sen-ken-harr-planning-is-better-than-name-calling-on-climate-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sen. Ken Harr: Planning is better than name-calling on climate change<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[13,10,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1683,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions\/1683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}