{"id":4120,"date":"2011-10-30T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T04:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=4120"},"modified":"2011-10-25T23:51:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T03:51:53","slug":"year-2-month-10-day-30-sometimes-these-letters-just-walk-up-and-beg-to-be-written","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-10-day-30-sometimes-these-letters-just-walk-up-and-beg-to-be-written\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 10, Day 30: Sometimes These Letters Just Walk Up And Beg To Be Written"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eugene Robinson writes in the October 25 Washington Post about the logical consequences of the Muller\/UC study<\/a>:<\/p>\n


\nFor the clueless or cynical diehards who deny global warming, it\u2019s getting awfully cold out there.<\/p>\n

The latest icy blast of reality comes from an eminent scientist whom the climate-change skeptics once lauded as one of their own. Richard Muller, a respected physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, used to dismiss alarmist climate research as being \u201cpolluted by political and activist frenzy.\u201d Frustrated at what he considered shoddy science, Muller launched his own comprehensive study to set the record straight. Instead, the record set him straight.<\/p>\n

\u201cGlobal warming is real,\u201d Muller wrote last week in The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n

Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann and the rest of the neo-Luddites who are turning the GOP into the anti-science party should pay attention. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sharp learning curve ahead for Muller, who is going to find himself stigmatized as a leftist DFH within a few days. Sent Oct. 25:<\/p>\n

In a sane political environment, the release of Dr. Richard Muller’s study confirming the reality of global climate change would be a game-changer of huge proportions. When a study administered by a leading “skeptic” and largely funded by arch-denialists the Koch brothers comes down conclusively on the other side of the debate, it should change a few minds.<\/p>\n

And in a sane world, it would. But the people who funded Muller’s study aren’t interested in facts; they share a political philosophy with those who evinced disdain and contempt for the “reality-based community” during the previous administration. Corporate climate denialists and the politicians they subsidize have combined nihilism and solipsism in a toxic package: they care not for the continued survival of our species, because they (as a Bush official said to Ron Suskind) “create their own reality.”<\/p>\n

And that’s why the Muller study won’t matter to Republican lawmakers.<\/p>\n

Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eugene Robinson writes in the October 25 Washington Post about the logical consequences of the Muller\/UC study: For the clueless or cynical diehards who deny global warming, it\u2019s getting awfully cold out there. The latest icy blast of reality comes from an eminent scientist whom the climate-change skeptics once lauded as one of their own. […]<\/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":[467,253,207,212,1013],"class_list":["post-4120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-assholes","tag-denialists","tag-idiots","tag-republicans","tag-richard-muller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120","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=4120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4123,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions\/4123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}