{"id":486,"date":"2006-06-14T16:07:56","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T23:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=486"},"modified":"2006-06-14T16:12:36","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T23:12:36","slug":"a-convenient-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"A Convenient Idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things you know that is wrong is the whole area of &#8220;global warming&#8221;.  Seemingly unaware of the fact that the theory is still quite controversial among actual climate scientists (Scientific American&#8217;s despicable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/printedition\/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1522706\">smear job<\/a> on Bjorn Lomborg notwithstanding), Al Gore does his best Chicken Little impression in his new movie <i>An Inconvenient Truth<\/i>, to which people who actually know what they&#8217;re talking about are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadafreepress.com\/2006\/harris061206.htm\">responding not so positively<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[There are] hundreds of highly qualified non-governmental, non-industry, non-lobby group climate experts who contest the hypothesis that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are causing significant global climate change. &#8220;Climate experts&#8221; is the operative term here. Why? Because what Gore&#8217;s &#8220;majority of scientists&#8221; think is immaterial when only a very small fraction of them actually work in the climate field.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things you know that is wrong is the whole area of &#8220;global warming&#8221;. Seemingly unaware of the fact that the theory is still quite controversial among actual climate scientists (Scientific American&#8217;s despicable smear job on Bjorn Lomborg notwithstanding), Al Gore does his best Chicken Little impression in his new movie An Inconvenient &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=486\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Convenient Idiot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}