{"id":2889,"date":"2011-03-01T22:52:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2011-03-01T23:06:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T03:06:46","slug":"year-2-month-3-day-2-eruptions-of-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-3-day-2-eruptions-of-ignorance\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 3, Day 2: Eruptions of Ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer is the guy who introduced the amendment to kill funding for the IPCC, which (given our all-new teabagger-friendly House) passed handily.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/political-fix\/article_0cf992ce-3dd8-11e0-afda-0017a4a78c22.html\">The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has the story.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The guy&#8217;s a moron, but is that news?  Anyway, I started remembering Bobby Jindal for some reason, and generated the following letter, sent 2\/21:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Those of us who still recall Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal&#8217;s disparaging remarks about &#8220;something called &#8216;volcano monitoring,&#8217; &#8221; back in early 2009 will also remember that only a few weeks later, a real live volcano erupted in Alaska \u2014 and that the Government&#8217;s Volcano Monitoring service was credited with giving essential warnings that saved lives and property.  Blaine Luetkemeyer is in a position analogous to Jindal&#8217;s; his hostility toward the I.P.C.C. has nothing to do with its essential work on the likely effects of global warming and everything to do with short-term political exigencies.  As the scientific evidence mounts, climate-change deniers use multiply-debunked arguments to delay and weaken any action on the most significant threat humanity has faced in millennia.  The smoke from Mount Redoubt made Governor Jindal&#8217;s mockery of volcano monitoring an embarrassment; one wonders: what sort of environmental catastrophe will bring Representative Luetkemeyer to regret his similarly ignorant grandstanding?<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer is the guy who introduced the amendment to kill funding for the IPCC, which (given our all-new teabagger-friendly House) passed handily. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has the story. The guy&#8217;s a moron, but is that news? Anyway, I started remembering Bobby Jindal for some reason, and generated the following letter, sent [&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":[467,805,253,207,252,806],"class_list":["post-2889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-assholes","tag-bobby-jindal","tag-denialists","tag-idiots","tag-ipcc","tag-volcano-monitoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889","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=2889"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2947,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions\/2947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}