{"id":2271,"date":"2010-11-07T18:41:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T22:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=2271"},"modified":"2010-11-07T18:52:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T22:52:05","slug":"month-11-day-8-high-noon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/month-11-day-8-high-noon\/","title":{"rendered":"Month 11, Day 8: High Noon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Plain Dealer runs an McClatchy article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/nation\/index.ssf\/2010\/11\/political_action_climate_scien.html\">climate scientists preparing to enter the media circus<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;This group feels strongly that science and politics can&#8217;t be divorced and that we need to take bold measures to not only communicate science but also to aggressively engage the denialists and politicians who attack climate science and its scientists,&#8221;<\/em> said Scott Mandia, professor of physical sciences at Suffolk County Community College in New York.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We are taking the fight to them because we are . . . tired of taking the hits. The notion that truth will prevail is not working. The truth has been out there for the past two decades, and nothing has changed.&#8221; <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Poor bastards.  I&#8217;m going to send them all some letters of support; they&#8217;ll need all the help they can get.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is terrific news that climatologists are preparing to challenge climate-change denialists.  With the GOP takeover of the House, we can look forward to a long two years of anti-science theatrics, like Representative Darryl Issa&#8217;s promised hearings on the  &#8220;climategate&#8221; non-scandal.   Climate denialism is a linchpin of Republican ideology; these politicians insist (despite mountains of evidence and an overwhelming scientific consensus on the reality of anthropogenic global warming) that the problem either: A &#8211; doesn&#8217;t exist, B &#8211; exists but isn&#8217;t caused by humans, C &#8211; was fabricated by Al Gore and an international conspiracy of climate experts, or D &#8211; is too expensive to address.  Each of these positions has been debunked many times over, but the minds of GOP politicians are, alas, closed to persuasion.  I hope that the members of the proposed &#8220;climate rapid response team&#8221; are ready for the most exasperating and baffling arguments they&#8217;ll ever experience.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Plain Dealer runs an McClatchy article about climate scientists preparing to enter the media circus. &#8220;This group feels strongly that science and politics can&#8217;t be divorced and that we need to take bold measures to not only communicate science but also to aggressively engage the denialists and politicians who attack climate science and [&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":[467,684,207,644],"class_list":["post-2271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-assholes","tag-good-guys","tag-idiots","tag-media-irresponsibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271","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=2271"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions\/2275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}