{"id":1816,"date":"2010-08-02T23:28:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T03:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2010-08-02T23:28:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T03:28:28","slug":"month-8-day-3-an-acorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/month-8-day-3-an-acorn\/","title":{"rendered":"Month 8, Day 3: An Acorn!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blind pig that is the Washington Post just published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/08\/01\/AR2010080102850.html\">a genuinely good editorial about climate change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Indeed, as the editorial points out, there is no longer a &#8220;controversy&#8221; of any kind with regard to the scientific factuality of anthropogenic climate change.  The world is rapidly approaching a climatic tipping point which will almost certainly trigger a future profoundly inimical to human existence, and human activity is responsible.  In a few years we will be far too busy dealing with the ramifications of the crisis to assign blame.  Right now, however, there&#8217;s still enough breathing room to point out that the Washington Post has been &#8220;denier central&#8221; for years \u2014 muddying the waters and obscuring the truth in column after column by anti-science ignorati like George Will, Sarah Palin, Bjorn Lomborg, Robert Bruce and Robert Samuelson.  As the &#8220;home-town paper&#8221; of our government, the Post has a responsibility to provide factual information and reasoned analysis to America&#8217;s policy-makers \u2014 and to refrain from printing misleading, inaccurate and scientifically unsound pontifications which provide our political class with convenient rationalizations to avoid action.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blind pig that is the Washington Post just published a genuinely good editorial about climate change. Indeed, as the editorial points out, there is no longer a &#8220;controversy&#8221; of any kind with regard to the scientific factuality of anthropogenic climate change. The world is rapidly approaching a climatic tipping point which will almost certainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[254,299,207,131],"class_list":["post-1816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-false-equivalence","tag-george-will","tag-idiots","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1817,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions\/1817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}