{"id":2491,"date":"2010-12-29T12:12:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T16:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2010-12-29T12:12:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T16:12:20","slug":"month-12-day-30-its-only-a-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/month-12-day-30-its-only-a-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Month 12, Day 30: It&#8217;s Only A Movie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gisbourne Herald (NZ) runs an article asserting that there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gisborneherald.co.nz\/opinion\/editorial\/?id=20786\">&#8220;Clear scientific consensus that we are cooking the planet . . .&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many of the other letters and articles in this paper (of which I&#8217;ve never heard) are full of denialist stupidity.  So I thought I&#8217;d address that a bit.  The movie analogy is new; I look forward to refining it in days to come.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Cui bono?<\/em>  Who benefits?  When reading the assertions of climate-change deniers, we should investigate each position&#8217;s sources of money.  On one side, scientific establishments: chronically underfunded, staffed by people deeply interested in their fields of expertise, with a system of fact-checking and theoretical rigor (peer review) that remains the world&#8217;s standard of intellectual quality.  On the other side, big energy companies \u2014 making billions of dollars in profits, with a proven track record of disregard for the common good, and a system of misinformation and propaganda that includes heavily funded &#8220;think tanks&#8221; and access to the world&#8217;s most influential media.   So-called &#8220;skeptics&#8221; are imagining the wrong movie.  This isn&#8217;t a thriller where a cabal of mad scientists attempt to take over the world; this is the one where dedicated researchers attempt to alert humanity to a clear and present danger, but are mocked by short-sighted, profit-hungry corporate sociopaths.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gisbourne Herald (NZ) runs an article asserting that there is &#8220;Clear scientific consensus that we are cooking the planet . . .&#8221; Many of the other letters and articles in this paper (of which I&#8217;ve never heard) are full of denialist stupidity. So I thought I&#8217;d address that a bit. The movie analogy is [&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],"tags":[680,292,207],"class_list":["post-2491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-corporate-irresponsibility","tag-denialism","tag-idiots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491","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=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions\/2492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}