{"id":3125,"date":"2011-04-14T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T04:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=3125"},"modified":"2011-04-05T13:31:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T17:31:06","slug":"year-2-month-4-day-14-the-science-of-suspended-disbelief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-4-day-14-the-science-of-suspended-disbelief\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 4, Day 14: The Science Of Suspended Disbelief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iowaindependent.com\/54561\/pawlenty-science-divided-on-human-contribution-to-climate-change\">T-Paw thinks there&#8217;s still some diversity of opinion on climate change, says the Iowa Independent<\/a>, which is heavily festooned with tea-party advertisements.  I doubt this will get printed.  Sent April 5:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tim Pawlenty&#8217;s got it right.  The science on climate change is indeed divided.  Let&#8217;s look more closely at this division of opinion among climate scientists \u2014 the people who&#8217;ve studied the subject in greatest depth.  A whopping three percent of climatologists disagree with the rest of their profession about the human causes of climate change.  Ninety-seven to three.  In fairness to Governor Pawlenty, it&#8217;s likely that his only acquaintance with climate science is at the hands of Republican political consultants, who&#8217;ve determined through rigorous statistical analysis (there&#8217;s some science, right there!) that accepting the overwhelming expert consensus on anthropogenic global warming equates to an instant and overwhelming electoral loss at the hands of tea-partiers.  The future of our country and our civilization be damned; what&#8217;s important to Mr. Pawlenty and the rest of the Republican Flat-Earth society is to continue enabling the profit margins of their corporate masters.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T-Paw thinks there&#8217;s still some diversity of opinion on climate change, says the Iowa Independent, which is heavily festooned with tea-party advertisements. I doubt this will get printed. Sent April 5: Tim Pawlenty&#8217;s got it right. The science on climate change is indeed divided. Let&#8217;s look more closely at this division of opinion among climate [&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":[467,253,207,212],"class_list":["post-3125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-assholes","tag-denialists","tag-idiots","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125","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=3125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3126,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions\/3126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}