{"id":12418,"date":"2015-02-03T20:01:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T03:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=12418"},"modified":"2015-10-31T18:00:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T22:00:32","slug":"the-odds-in-favor-of-climatechange-is-the-shark-eating-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/the-odds-in-favor-of-climatechange-is-the-shark-eating-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Odds in Favor of #ClimateChange is the Shark-Eating Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About those odds of being eaten by a shark:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12419\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/the-odds-in-favor-of-climatechange-is-the-shark-eating-truth\/temps-5-7b2737802b2f3827f4eed120a327c61e\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Temps-5-7b2737802b2f3827f4eed120a327c61e.png?fit=849%2C471&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"849,471\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Temps-5-7b2737802b2f3827f4eed120a327c61e\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Temps-5-7b2737802b2f3827f4eed120a327c61e.png?fit=500%2C277&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Temps-5-7b2737802b2f3827f4eed120a327c61e.png?fit=640%2C355&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Temps-5-7b2737802b2f3827f4eed120a327c61e.png?resize=640%2C355&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Temps-5-7b2737802b2f3827f4eed120a327c61e\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Temps-5-7b2737802b2f3827f4eed120a327c61e.png?w=849&amp;ssl=1 849w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Temps-5-7b2737802b2f3827f4eed120a327c61e.png?resize=125%2C69&amp;ssl=1 125w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Temps-5-7b2737802b2f3827f4eed120a327c61e.png?resize=500%2C277&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OK, let&#8217;s assume those odds are true. Now, let&#8217;s assume there are exactly 7,000,000,000 humans on the planet at this moment.<\/p>\n<p>If the odds of being eaten by a shark are 1 in 3,748,067, that means of all the humans currently alive, 1,867 of them will be eaten by a shark. And that scares me more than the odds of trying to factor how humans are or aren&#8217;t responsible for climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I&#8217;m in favor of NOT using &#8220;eaten by a shark&#8221; anymore to underscore the odds of anything. Because ultimately the odds imply <em>someone <\/em>getting eaten by a shark!<\/p>\n<p>From the video, <em>Hot Years, Long Odds<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hot Years, Long Odds\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bnvaH3k45sA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About those odds of being eaten by a shark: OK, let&#8217;s assume those odds are true. Now, let&#8217;s assume there are exactly 7,000,000,000 humans on the planet at this moment. If the odds of being eaten by a shark are 1 in 3,748,067, that means of all the humans currently alive, 1,867 of them will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","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":[16],"tags":[978,977],"series":[],"class_list":["post-12418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","tag-odds","tag-shark"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Temps-5-7b2737802b2f3827f4eed120a327c61e.png?fit=849%2C471&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-3ei","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12418"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15155,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418\/revisions\/15155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12418"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=12418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}