{"id":3369,"date":"2011-06-18T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T04:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=3369"},"modified":"2011-06-04T14:40:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T18:40:13","slug":"year-2-month-6-day-18-up-with-which-i-will-not-put","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-6-day-18-up-with-which-i-will-not-put\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 6, Day 18: Up With Which I Will Not Put"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gold Coast Mail (Australia) notes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldcoastmail.com.au\/story\/2011\/06\/03\/climate-change-sceptics-endangered-study\/\">a study which suggests that climate denialism is dying out Down Under<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>CLIMATE change sceptics are an endangered species in Australia, a national survey shows.<\/p>\n<p>The survey of almost 3100 Australians found 74 per cent believe the world&#8217;s climate is changing.<\/p>\n<p>When asked a different question about the causes of climate change, which removed the reference to personal beliefs, 90 per cent of respondents said human activity was a factor.<\/p>\n<p>Just five per cent said climate change was entirely caused by natural processes.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, less than six per cent of respondents could reasonably be classified as true climate change sceptics, the study by Griffith University researchers found.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The comments on the article would, unfortunately, indicate otherwise.  Sent June 4:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Recently, a new and invasive species was spotted in many locations all over the world.  Combining intellectual genomes from anti-science religious zealots and anti-environment business forces, these &#8220;climate change denialists&#8221; fed on toxic media emissions, rapidly growing larger and posing ever-greater threats to journalism and the civility of public discourse.  Clogging the channels of communication essential to a free society, denialists rapidly replaced subtler ideas about planetary climate patterns and regional weather events with ill-founded conspiracy theories and innumerate contempt for scientific authority.  The result?  Many of the world&#8217;s developed cultures were virtually incapacitated; the USA hosts a particularly virulent strain which has essentially destroyed the integrity of its political system.<\/p>\n<p>Denialists&#8217; status as an endangered species in Australia is very welcome news.  We can only hope that in centuries to come, they&#8217;ll have a place in the history books alongside the Dodo, the Pig-footed Bandicoot, and the Passenger Pigeon.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gold Coast Mail (Australia) notes a study which suggests that climate denialism is dying out Down Under: CLIMATE change sceptics are an endangered species in Australia, a national survey shows. The survey of almost 3100 Australians found 74 per cent believe the world&#8217;s climate is changing. When asked a different question about the causes [&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":[731,292,207,644],"class_list":["post-3369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-australia","tag-denialism","tag-idiots","tag-media-irresponsibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369","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=3369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3370,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions\/3370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}