{"id":4049,"date":"2011-01-18T17:43:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T00:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2011\/01\/18\/climate-quote-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2011-01-18T17:43:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T00:43:39","slug":"climate-quote-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2011\/01\/18\/climate-quote-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/planet-gore\/257375\/did-warmists-contribute-devastation-australia-greg-pollowitz\">Greg Pollowitz<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='right'><script src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/fire.php\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Regardless of what you think of global warming, the point is that politicians are ignoring inevitable, short-term threats &#8212; a flood in California, a hurricane hitting NYC, an earthquake in the Midwest, multiple genocidal dictators in Africa, etc. &#8212; while spending an inordinate amount of resources and dialogue on the long-term implications of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Greg wrote this at the bottom of a Planet Gore post about how the Australians may have failed to protect against their recent flooding disasters as a consequence of Aussie Greenbats predicting drought and ignoring the flood potential. The crazy bastards built desalinization plants rather than dams!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Pollowitz Regardless of what you think of global warming, the point is that politicians are ignoring inevitable, short-term threats &#8212; a flood in California, a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,42,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global-warming","category-whacko-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}