{"id":36657,"date":"2022-12-29T23:33:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T05:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/?p=36657"},"modified":"2022-12-29T23:34:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T05:34:31","slug":"leonard-nimoys-1977-warning-the-imminent-ice-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/2022\/12\/29\/leonard-nimoys-1977-warning-the-imminent-ice-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Nimoy’s 1978 Warning: The Imminent Ice Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things looked icy and bleak in 1978. But then it didn’t happen, like so many other things that have been predicted. What is the lesson we can learn from this failure? When we make predictions regarding complex adaptive systems, perhaps we need more humility. Perhaps we shouldn’t act like we are sure of things when we aren’t.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RitaPanahi\/status\/1608189567819206656\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-29-at-11.29.22-PM-1024x858.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"858\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36658\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-29-at-11.29.22-PM-1024x858.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-29-at-11.29.22-PM-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-29-at-11.29.22-PM-768x644.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-29-at-11.29.22-PM.jpg 1150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things looked icy and bleak in 1978. But then it didn’t happen, like so many other things that have been predicted. What is the lesson we can learn from this failure? When we make predictions regarding complex adaptive systems, perhaps we need more humility. Perhaps we shouldn’t act like we are sure of things when we aren’t.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RitaPanahi\/status\/1608189567819206656\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-29-at-11.29.22-PM-1024x858.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"858\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-29-at-11.29.22-PM-1024x858.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-29-at-11.29.22-PM-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-29-at-11.29.22-PM-768x644.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-29-at-11.29.22-PM.jpg 1150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,44,5812,5160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global-warming","category-risks-and-dangers","category-sustainable-living","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36661,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36657\/revisions\/36661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}