{"id":238,"date":"2007-02-02T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=238"},"modified":"2007-02-02T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T23:14:00","slug":"climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/02\/climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">P<\/span>ost the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">IPCC<\/span> report I checked in on the blog at <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Scientific American<\/span>. There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sciam.com\/index.php?title=rolling_stone_readers_misinterpret_sarca&#038;more=1&amp;c=1&#038;tb=1&amp;pb=1\" target=\"_blank\">an interesting piece<\/a> on the lack of irony among <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Rolling Stone<\/span> readers. In response to a playlist called<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/rockdaily\/index.php\/2007\/01\/17\/playlist-of-the-day-al-gore-was-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Al Gore was wrong<\/a>, some <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">RS<\/span> posters let rip:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Which one of the following theories is without merit?<br \/>A) Einstein\u2019s Theory of Relativity<br \/>B) Gore\u2019s Theory of Global Warming<br \/>C) Darwin\u2019s Theory of Evolution<\/p>\n<p>Global warming is far down on the list of hobgoblins that threaten both individuals and society as a whole. The seeming consensus regarding the need to decrease CO2 emissions is morally bankrupt as well as patently unscientific.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m old enough to remember the 70\u2019s, when decreasing global temperatures led my professors to declare we were headed for a new \u201cIce Age\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Global warming or not , I know that nature has a way of balancing itself out.<\/p>\n<p>global warming\u2026.yeah ok\u2026.seriously\u2026.who believes in that shit..it is completely UNPROVEN\u2026for every scientist who says it exists..ill produce one who doesnt\u2026<\/p>\n<p>This Global Warming thing will blow over 10 to 20 yrs, tops.<\/p>\n<p>People who believe Al Gore and his fable of Global Warming, let alone selling out to buy his DVD, are suffering from a mental disorder known as liberalism.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t tell me driving a hummer has any effect on how hot the sun gets evey couple of thousand years. Why do leftists feel the need to hate on the human race so much?<\/p>\n<p>Global warming is another scare tactic. However hot or cold the planet gets, man will adapt &#8211; just as we have been doing throughout history.<\/p>\n<p>Having recently read Michael Chrichton\u2019s novel, \u201cState of Fear\u201d, I have reconsidered my position on global warming. I have followed up on Crichton\u2019s many citations of scientific documents and journals and found them to be mainstream and credible.<\/p>\n<p>Al Gore blames us. What an idiot!!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What can you say&#8230;the potential for rational persuasion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post the IPCC report I checked in on the blog at Scientific American. There&#8217;s an interesting piece on the lack of irony among Rolling Stone readers. In response to a playlist called Al Gore was wrong, some RS posters let rip: Which one of the following theories is without merit?A) Einstein\u2019s Theory of RelativityB) Gore\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}