{"id":2923,"date":"2011-03-06T20:38:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T00:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2011-03-06T20:38:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T00:38:18","slug":"year-2-month-3-day-7-is-dis-a-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-3-day-7-is-dis-a-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 3, Day 7: Is Dis A System?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oakland Daily Tribune (that&#8217;s Oakland, Michigan, not Oakland, California) runs an article heavily featuring climate denialist Christopher Kobus, who makes a statement that is so wacko I cannot believe <em>he<\/em> believes it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>He believes the debate boils down to funding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Advocates of global warming) are well-funded and have deep connections with the media,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo-called skeptics (of global warming) are neither well-funded nor organized via advocacy organizations. It is a one-way debate.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A little research on Kobus suggests that he was taken in by the &#8220;Climategate&#8221; non-scandal and has continued to base his belief system on this series of unfortunate events.<\/p>\n<p>Sent February 27:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Professor Chris Kobus&#8217; claim that climate change &#8220;skeptics&#8221; are poorly funded does not stand even a cursory examination.   The few climatologists who dismiss the overwhelming scientific consensus on Earth&#8217;s climatic transformation are almost without exception supported by petroleum-funded &#8220;think tanks&#8221; and &#8220;institutes.&#8221;  Conversely, many climate scientists face extraordinary obstacles, including smear campaigns, hate mail, death threats and legal harassment in addition to the ongoing struggles for funding that are part of every scientist&#8217;s daily work.   Professor Kobus states that &#8220;climate-change advocates&#8221; have &#8220;deep connections with the media.&#8221;  Which media?  Surely not our TV, radio or newspapers, which inevitably &#8220;balance&#8221; every genuinely alarmed expert with an oil-industry spokesman.   Meanwhile, there&#8217;s snow in California, golfball-sized hailstones in the Midwest, and freak rainstorms in Australia \u2014 an increase in freak weather events which climatologists have predicted for decades as a consequence of the greenhouse effect.  Denying a problem won&#8217;t make it go away.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oakland Daily Tribune (that&#8217;s Oakland, Michigan, not Oakland, California) runs an article heavily featuring climate denialist Christopher Kobus, who makes a statement that is so wacko I cannot believe he believes it: He believes the debate boils down to funding. \u201c(Advocates of global warming) are well-funded and have deep connections with the media,\u201d he [&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":[253,644,688],"class_list":["post-2923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-denialists","tag-media-irresponsibility","tag-scientific-consensus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923","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=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2986,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions\/2986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}