{"id":3661,"date":"2011-07-28T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T04:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=3661"},"modified":"2011-07-12T20:10:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T00:10:17","slug":"year-2-month-7-day-28-julia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-7-day-28-julia\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 7, Day 28: Julia!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m writing this on July 12, after an episode of considerable stupidity a little earlier today.  I entered my usual group of search terms into google and found a link to an article debunking the climategate idiocy.  I leapt to the assumption that for some reason these were in the news again&#8230;so I spent about half an hour generating a letter on scientific integrity versus the right-wing noise machine.  A good letter it was, too.<\/p>\n<p>Then I looked at the byline on the article and had a (facepalm) moment; it was about 17 months old.  How did it wind up at the top of my google results?  Damned if I know.  So I put that letter away and generated another piece of boilerplate on Australia&#8217;s carbon tax.  This one went to the Boston Herald which ran <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/business\/general\/view.bg?articleid=1350808&amp;srvc=rss\">a generic AP feed on the Australian proposal<\/a>.   I&#8217;m linking to it from a drive to completeness; I cannot imagine why anyone would need to read it.  <\/p>\n<p>The BH is a Murdoch paper.  Maybe by the time this post shows up online Rupert will be in prison?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, sent on July 12 to the Boston Herald:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Australian carbon tax is an idea whose time has come.  Despite the doubts of her constituents and the hostility of the country&#8217;s big coal companies, Prime Minister Gillard is showing genuine leadership and a long-term vision that American politicians would do well to emulate.  She recognizes that carbon dioxide emissions pose a long-term threat to the world&#8217;s stability.  If actions today can help reduce the terrifying consequences of a runaway greenhouse effect, all of us will benefit.  Conversely, apathy and inaction today will bring a perfect storm upon our descendants.  Fifty years ago, we had the excuse of ignorance; now, we can no longer plead that we were unaware of the dangers of a &#8220;business as usual&#8221; approach to greenhouse gas emissions, for the evidence is overwhelming and incontrovertible.  Our politicians&#8217; unwillingness and inability to do the right thing will resound to their, and our, eternal shame.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m writing this on July 12, after an episode of considerable stupidity a little earlier today. I entered my usual group of search terms into google and found a link to an article debunking the climategate idiocy. I leapt to the assumption that for some reason these were in the news again&#8230;so I spent [&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":[731,316,967],"class_list":["post-3661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-australia","tag-carbon-tax","tag-julia-gillard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661","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=3661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3664,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions\/3664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}