{"id":29,"date":"2016-01-13T18:12:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T18:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2016-01-22T18:42:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T18:42:01","slug":"community-service-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/community-service-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Action projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The posts below discuss the various\u00a0community service projects undertaken by\u00a0the POL S 301 student\u00a0action groups.<\/p>\n<div class='pfpItem entry-content'><h2 class='entry-title'><a href='https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/fair-share-video\/'>Fair Share Video<\/a><\/h2><p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y2JUFugd_bo<\/p>\n<p>We are a group of undergraduates at the University of Washington with varied majors, but we created this video with hopes of inspiring others to increase their awareness about the water they consume every day!<\/p>\n<p>Special shout out to our Professor Karen Litfin (go check her out&#8211;she\u2019s written a lot of...<a href='https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/fair-share-video\/' class='pfpReadMore'>Read More &raquo;<\/a><div class='clear'><\/div><hr><\/div><div class='pfpItem entry-content'><h2 class='entry-title'><a href='https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/myth-1-the-earth-is-naturally-getting-warmer-mallory-culbertson\/'>Myth #1 The Earth is Naturally Getting Warmer - Mallory Culbertson<\/a><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the realm of climate change denial, there is a pervasive myth of \u201cnatural warming\u201d, the idea that the Earth\u2019s climate just naturally fluctuates between the extremes of very cold and very warm, so the warming we\u2019re seeing is just part of that natural change. This myth takes...<a href='https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/myth-1-the-earth-is-naturally-getting-warmer-mallory-culbertson\/' class='pfpReadMore'>Read More &raquo;<\/a><div class='clear'><\/div><hr><\/div><div class='pfpItem entry-content'><h2 class='entry-title'><a href='https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/myth-2-carbon-is-not-a-pollutant-amber-sonka\/'>Myth #2: Carbon is Not a Pollutant - Amber Sonka<\/a><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some climate change deniers claim that the recent increase in carbon emissions should be of little concern because carbon is not a pollutant. It is true that element carbon is found naturally throughout the environment and is even considered a building block of life. It is true that...<a href='https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/myth-2-carbon-is-not-a-pollutant-amber-sonka\/' class='pfpReadMore'>Read More &raquo;<\/a><div class='clear'><\/div><hr><\/div><div class='pfpItem entry-content'><h2 class='entry-title'><a href='https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/myth-3-the-earth-isnt-really-warming-after-all-kyle-nelson\/'>Myth #3 The Earth Isn\u2019t Really Warming After All - Kyle Nelson<\/a><\/h2><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/global-temps-1880-2014-150x150.png\" \/><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The idea that the Earth is not actually warming is one of the most pervasive myths about climate change, and it is also one of the most straight-forward. \u00a0The basis for this myth comes from the fact that the global average temperature in 1998 was close...<a href='https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/myth-3-the-earth-isnt-really-warming-after-all-kyle-nelson\/' class='pfpReadMore'>Read More &raquo;<\/a><div class='clear'><\/div><hr><\/div><div class='pfpItem entry-content'><h2 class='entry-title'><a href='https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/myth-4-climate-change-is-good-george-reynoldson\/'>Myth #4 \u2013 Climate Change is Good - George Reynoldson<\/a><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The myth that \u201cclimate change is good\u201d is widely broadcast by a variety of social interests, politicians, and their combined constituencies hoping to get or stay empowered in many countries, especially northern (developed) ones like the United States, Canada and Russia. \u00a0The loudest voices on the \u201cis good...<a href='https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/myth-4-climate-change-is-good-george-reynoldson\/' class='pfpReadMore'>Read More &raquo;<\/a><div class='clear'><\/div><hr><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The posts below discuss the various\u00a0community service projects undertaken by\u00a0the POL S 301 student\u00a0action groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ps301\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}