{"id":1587,"date":"2010-06-20T00:30:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T04:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2010-06-20T00:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T04:33:00","slug":"month-6-day-20-dont-mention-the-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/month-6-day-20-dont-mention-the-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Month 6, Day 20: Whatever You Do, Don&#8217;t Mention The Oil!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Times-Picayune ran an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/newsflash\/index.ssf?\/base\/commentary-0\/1276726213220080.xml&#038;storylist=health\">AP story on global warming<\/a>; it was written by Joe Conason, who is excellent.  So I built on that.  This letter, remarkably for something sent to Louisiana, doesn&#8217;t mention the Gulf spill once.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is certainly true that &#8220;global warming has lost momentum as a public concern&#8221; since 2007.  It is also true that our media have contributed to this problem.  Through superficial reporting and an editorial policy built around a specious equivalency between scientific truth and industry-funded denialism, print and broadcast media have fostered the illusion that there is still a &#8220;debate&#8221; about the reality of global climate change.  There is no debate; climate scientists are overwhelmingly in agreement that anthropogenic global warming is both real and dangerous.  Of course some scientists&#8217; predictions or analyses don&#8217;t match the work of others; that&#8217;s inherent in scientific processes.  Enabled and encouraged by an inattentive and irresponsible media, our politicians refuse to come to terms with the reality: shared sacrifice is essential for shared survival.  <\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Times-Picayune ran an AP story on global warming; it was written by Joe Conason, who is excellent. So I built on that. This letter, remarkably for something sent to Louisiana, doesn&#8217;t mention the Gulf spill once. It is certainly true that &#8220;global warming has lost momentum as a public concern&#8221; since 2007. [&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":[525,524],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-irresponsible-media","tag-new-orleans-times-picayune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1591,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}