{"id":163082,"date":"2010-01-10T14:25:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T19:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=4850"},"modified":"2010-01-10T14:25:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T19:25:14","slug":"lessons-to-be-learned-in-the-climate-alarm-zone-by-marc-sheppard-americanthinker-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/163082","title":{"rendered":"Lessons to Be Learned in the Climate Alarm Zone by Marc Sheppard, AmericanThinker.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=87\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;Marc Sheppard&quot;\">Marc Sheppard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  When the SyFy channel unlocked the door to this year\u2019s annual New Year\u2019s Day marathon with the key to imagination, my two teenage sons finally accepted the invitation to accompany me inside. So you can imagine how the World Wildlife Fund\u2019s green decision to spin their sci-fi\/fantasy\/horror global warming yarns during commercial breaks of my favorite sci-fi\/fantasy\/horror yarns made me see red&#8230;until, that is, I recognized the teaching moment presented by crossing over from the Twilight Zone\u2019s land of both shadow and substance to the equally fantastic Climate Alarm Zone.<\/p>\n<p>Submitted for your perusal:  The time \u2013 a frost-nipped and early Friday afternoon on the first day of the first month of the first year of the new decade. The place &#8212; a quintessential vinyl-clad house set back obliquely on an icy-tree-lined suburban street, whose doors open invitingly to sights cast from a glowing High-Def television set, the scent of a split cedar log smoldering in a brick fireplace, and the sounds of frozen-rain pelting a shingled roof, assuaging any thought of outdoor activity.   <\/p>\n<p>Inside, my boys had just witnessed a terrifyingly young Billy Mumy <a  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/It's_a_Good_Life_(The_Twilight_Zone)\">wishing his tortured victims away to the cornfield<\/a> for the very first time. And then the <a  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Eye_of_the_Beholder\/\">shocking twist-ending<\/a> of Donna Douglas\u2019s eleventh and final facial surgery in her desperate struggle to look \u201clike everybody else.\u201d And Telly Savalas discovering how <a  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Living_Doll_(The_Twilight_Zone)\">dead-wrong<\/a> he was to pay the words &#8220;My name is Talky Tina, and I&#8217;m going to kill you,&#8221; spoken by his step-daughter\u2019s new doll, no particular heed.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSource: americanthinker.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=4850\">Read in full with comments \u00bb<\/a>  &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/0pXIC8w0BlZIyAWQu4ItBJtboB4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/0pXIC8w0BlZIyAWQu4ItBJtboB4\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/0pXIC8w0BlZIyAWQu4ItBJtboB4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/0pXIC8w0BlZIyAWQu4ItBJtboB4\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog\/~4\/cfWigNP5cCc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: Marc Sheppard When the SyFy channel unlocked the door to this year\u2019s annual New Year\u2019s Day marathon with the key to imagination, my two teenage sons finally accepted the invitation to accompany me inside. So you can imagine how the World Wildlife Fund\u2019s green decision to spin their sci-fi\/fantasy\/horror global warming yarns during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}