{"id":4189,"date":"2011-11-22T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T04:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=4189"},"modified":"2011-11-20T00:53:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T04:53:58","slug":"year-2-month-11-day-22-if-youre-so-rich-how-come-you-aint-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-11-day-22-if-youre-so-rich-how-come-you-aint-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 11, Day 22: If You&#8217;re So Rich, How Come You Ain&#8217;t Smart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal runs <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203699404577046150347608214.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">a piece on the latest IPCC report, which is chock full of hideous news:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>KAMPALA Uganda\u2014Climate change is leading to at least some cases of more extreme weather events across the globe, according to a report released on Friday by a United Nations-led scientific panel on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>The scientific link between climate change and extreme weather isn&#8217;t uniformly clear, according to the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body established in 1988 to assist global policy makers with climate change. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As usual with WSJ articles, the comments on this piece are a critical mass of stupidity.  What&#8217;s with these people?  Sent November 18, from Logan Airport while waiting for my plane:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You&#8217;d think that once a critical mass of evidence has accumulated, climate-change denialists would have no choice but to change their minds.  Indeed, it&#8217;s interesting to ask self-styled &#8220;skeptics&#8221; what evidence would suffice to convince them that human-caused climate change is genuinely dangerous.  Many say that nothing will alter their opinions \u2014 in which case they cannot be &#8220;skeptics.&#8221;  Some require proof so definitive as to be unachievable \u2014 in which case they misunderstand both scientific consensus and the nature of the situation.  <\/p>\n<p>Even before the most recent IPCC report, evidence supporting anthropogenic global warming far exceeded the critical threshold required for unilateral action in other policy areas.  The &#8220;Cheney doctrine&#8221; held that even a 1% chance of Iraqi WMDs was sufficient to justify an invasion, a level of likelihood acknowledged by even the stubbornest denialists.  Our only remaining excuse for inaction is a toxic combination of cupidity and willful ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal runs a piece on the latest IPCC report, which is chock full of hideous news: KAMPALA Uganda\u2014Climate change is leading to at least some cases of more extreme weather events across the globe, according to a report released on Friday by a United Nations-led scientific panel on the subject. The scientific [&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":[467,663,253,93,207,252],"class_list":["post-4189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-assholes","tag-capitalism","tag-denialists","tag-greed","tag-idiots","tag-ipcc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189","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=4189"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4196,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions\/4196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}