{"id":375346,"date":"2010-02-26T22:29:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T03:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23476"},"modified":"2010-02-26T22:29:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T03:29:35","slug":"the-attack-on-climate-change-science-why-it%e2%80%99s-the-o-j-moment-of-the-twenty-first-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/375346","title":{"rendered":"The Attack on Climate-Change Science: Why It\u2019s the O.J. Moment of the Twenty-First Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20100315\/mckibben\">The Nation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Twenty-one years ago, in 1989, I wrote what many have called the first book for a general audience on global warming. One of the more interesting reviews came from the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>. It was a  mixed and judicious appraisal. &#8220;The subject,&#8221; the reviewer said, &#8220;is important, the notion is arresting, and Mr. McKibben argues convincingly.&#8221; And that was not an outlier: around the same time, the first President Bush announced that he planned to &#8220;fight the greenhouse effect with the White House effect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I doubt that&#8217;s what the <em>Journal<\/em> will say about my next book when  it comes out in a few weeks, and I know that no GOP presidential contender would now dream of acknowledging that human beings are warming the planet. Sarah Palin is currently calling climate&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Nation: Twenty-one years ago, in 1989, I wrote what many have called the first book for a general audience on global warming. One of the more interesting reviews came from the Wall Street Journal. It was a mixed and judicious appraisal. &#8220;The subject,&#8221; the reviewer said, &#8220;is important, the notion is arresting, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375346","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\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}