{"id":210689,"date":"2010-01-21T05:33:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T10:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=4929"},"modified":"2010-01-21T05:33:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T10:33:34","slug":"fact-battles-faith-in-global-warming-debate-by-walter-cunningham-the-heartland-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/210689","title":{"rendered":"Fact Battles Faith in Global Warming Debate by Walter Cunningham, The Heartland Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=504\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;Walter Cunningham&quot;\">Walter Cunningham<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  Editor\u2019s note: This is the first article in a series by scientist\/astronaut Walter Cunningham, pilot of the Apollo 7 space mission, who has a master\u2019s degree in physics. Cunningham has served on the Advisory Board for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory<\/p>\n<p>There is a war going on between those who believe human activities are responsible for global warming and those who don\u2019t. Contrary to the way the debate is often framed by the media, those who believe in anthropogenic global warming (AGW) do not hold the high ground, scientifically. Their critics do.<\/p>\n<p>Reason, Evidence Ignored<\/p>\n<p>One reason for belief in AGW is the sad state of scientific literacy in the United States today. A 2006 National Science Foundation survey found 25 percent of Americans did not know the Earth revolves around the sun. Such widespread ignorance leaves our society vulnerable to the emotional appeal of AGW alarmists.<\/p>\n<p>Among AGW true believers, advocacy has replaced objective evaluation of data, and scientific data&#8211;regardless of the authority of its source or importance in the debate&#8211; are ignored and suppressed, or the messengers are attacked.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSource: heartland.org<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=4929\">Read in full with comments \u00bb<\/a>  &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Ww6GnJgRBGhYhKb94eb5YgQo81U\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Ww6GnJgRBGhYhKb94eb5YgQo81U\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Ww6GnJgRBGhYhKb94eb5YgQo81U\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Ww6GnJgRBGhYhKb94eb5YgQo81U\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog\/~4\/4nABPnVvPtQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: Walter Cunningham Editor\u2019s note: This is the first article in a series by scientist\/astronaut Walter Cunningham, pilot of the Apollo 7 space mission, who has a master\u2019s degree in physics. Cunningham has served on the Advisory Board for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory There is a war going on between those who believe [&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-210689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210689","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=210689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}