{"id":374548,"date":"2010-02-28T16:46:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T21:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=12497"},"modified":"2010-02-28T16:46:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T21:46:02","slug":"gore-vital-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/374548","title":{"rendered":"Gore vital | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know mentioning Al Gore, let alone linking to him, is like throwing red meat into the pit of denialists, but <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/28\/opinion\/28gore.html\">Gore&#8217;s Op Ed in today&#8217;s New York Times<\/a> is really quite good. I wonder if he reads my blog? He hits a lot of the points I have the past few days&#8230; though he doesn&#8217;t mention <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/02\/21\/you-cant-resolve-away-climate-change\/\">the troglodytes in the South Dakota and Utah legislative bodies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The only point he makes I&#8217;m not sure about is the capping of carbon emissions, simply because I haven&#8217;t looked into the issue. One more thing on my to-do list.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I will be much amused, I&#8217;m sure in a schadenfreudelicious sort of way, about the comments that will ensue below. I know! Let&#8217;s make it a game! Score ten points for every comment that makes fun of &#8220;Inconvenient Truth&#8221; without addressing the content of the Op Ed, 20 points for anyone who clearly didn&#8217;t read the Op Ed but comments anyway, 30 points for a comment thoroughly rebutted by science (either previously known or pointed out in a subsequent comment) but ignored by the commenter, and 100 points for someone who comments making fun of Gore&#8217;s name. First person to 1000 points wins! <\/p>\n<p>What do you win? A planet 1&deg; Fahrenheit warmer than it was a century ago! Hurray!<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/NpGVinlXLUhq8pfW2QCOxrd_9mw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/NpGVinlXLUhq8pfW2QCOxrd_9mw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/NpGVinlXLUhq8pfW2QCOxrd_9mw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/NpGVinlXLUhq8pfW2QCOxrd_9mw\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/KQuxmJdee6o\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/692jMIOsurU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know mentioning Al Gore, let alone linking to him, is like throwing red meat into the pit of denialists, but Gore&#8217;s Op Ed in today&#8217;s New York Times is really quite good. I wonder if he reads my blog? He hits a lot of the points I have the past few days&#8230; though he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374548","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\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}