{"id":3998,"date":"2011-09-15T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T04:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=3998"},"modified":"2011-09-11T19:12:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T23:12:20","slug":"year-2-month-9-day-15-im-talking-about-you-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-9-day-15-im-talking-about-you-rush\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 9, Day 15: I&#8217;m Talking About YOU, Rush."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The September 11 issue of The Tennesseean runs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/article\/20110911\/NEWS01\/309110093\/The-week-ahead-Al-Gore-leads-worldwide-online-talk-climate-change\">a plug for Al Gore&#8217;s Climate Reality project:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Former Vice President Al Gore of Nashville leads a worldwide, live-streamed, climate change-focused event called \u201c24 Hours of Reality\u201d that begins Wednesday at 7 p.m., Central time, and ends with the last hour presentation at 7 p.m. Thursday, Eastern time. The first will be from Mexico City and in Spanish, followed by hour-long presentations \u2014 one after another \u2014 in different areas of the globe, moving west. Several are in English, as will be the final one in New York City. Broadcast by Ustream, it can be viewed at climaterealityproject.org.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to write something in <em>support<\/em>, rather than in <em>opposition<\/em>.  Sent Sept. 11:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Al Gore&#8217;s clarity of purpose is one of America&#8217;s most important assets.  The former VP&#8217;s upcoming &#8220;Climate Reality&#8221; campaign deserves our respect and attention.  Unfortunately, the denialist contingent has chosen to reject sound scientific conclusions for a variety of specious reasons, most of which boil down to, &#8220;because we don&#8217;t want to believe it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, the evidence has been in for a long time.  Despite a series of contrived and debunked non-scandals, the scientific consensus on global climate change is overwhelming: humans cause it, it&#8217;s happening right now, it will affect our lives very significantly, and we \u2014 all of us \u2014 need to take action rapidly if we are to avoid catastrophe.  Mr. Gore&#8217;s prescience is all the more important for this reason \u2014 he&#8217;s been warning us about this for well over a decade, despite the mockery of the uninformed, the professionally ignorant, and the selfishly greedy.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The September 11 issue of The Tennesseean runs a plug for Al Gore&#8217;s Climate Reality project: Former Vice President Al Gore of Nashville leads a worldwide, live-streamed, climate change-focused event called \u201c24 Hours of Reality\u201d that begins Wednesday at 7 p.m., Central time, and ends with the last hour presentation at 7 p.m. Thursday, Eastern [&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":[319,253,207,688],"class_list":["post-3998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-al-gore","tag-denialists","tag-idiots","tag-scientific-consensus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998","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=3998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4001,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions\/4001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}