{"id":2755,"date":"2011-02-13T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2011-02-13T10:30:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T14:30:21","slug":"year-2-month-2-day-13-i-lit-out-from-reno-i-was-trailed-by-twenty-hounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-2-day-13-i-lit-out-from-reno-i-was-trailed-by-twenty-hounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 2, Day 13: I Lit Out From Reno, I Was Trailed By Twenty Hounds&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Reno Gazette-Journal, a columnist named Cory Farley discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rgj.com\/article\/20110206\/COL06\/102060327\/1321\/NEWS\">the inability of denialists to look a fact in the face.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good piece, and therefore makes not an iota of impact on the commentariat.  Sheesh.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While Cory Farley does a good job of skewering the mindset of climate-change deniers, it&#8217;s probably not going to change any minds.  At this point, the evidence for anthropogenic global warming is so overwhelming that no further proof is needed for anyone who&#8217;s actually paying attention; on the other hand, the evidence against it is so fragmented, internally contradictory, and riddled with conflicts of interest that acceptance requires a huge suspension of critical thinking.  How many times must a right-wing talking point be debunked before it stops appearing?  For example, one favorite line is <em>&#8220;scientists predicted global cooling in the 1970s.  Now they&#8217;re predicting warming.  Therefore scientists can&#8217;t be trusted.&#8221;<\/em>   Actually, scientific opinion on climate forty years ago was totally different from today&#8217;s.  A few scientists published articles speculating on possible consequences of atmospheric changes; a few of them raised the possibility of cooling (including one paper suggesting cooling trends over the next twenty-thousand years).  The popular press exaggerated the importance of these papers, and now it&#8217;s denialist gospel that &#8220;everybody&#8221; predicted an ice age.  No; not &#8220;everybody,&#8221; not even a majority of climatologists \u2014 and certainly nothing like today&#8217;s overwhelming consensus.  But facts no longer matter to deniers.  Alas.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Reno Gazette-Journal, a columnist named Cory Farley discusses the inability of denialists to look a fact in the face. It&#8217;s a good piece, and therefore makes not an iota of impact on the commentariat. Sheesh. While Cory Farley does a good job of skewering the mindset of climate-change deniers, it&#8217;s probably not going [&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":[467,253,207,688],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-assholes","tag-denialists","tag-idiots","tag-scientific-consensus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","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=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2825,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions\/2825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}