{"id":4586,"date":"2011-10-07T16:10:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T23:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2011\/10\/07\/five-truths-about-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2011-10-07T16:19:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T23:19:56","slug":"five-truths-about-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2011\/10\/07\/five-truths-about-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Truths About Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/globe-toon.jpg' title='globe-toon.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/globe-toon.jpg' alt='globe-toon.jpg' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Robert Bryce<\/strong> wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203388804576612620828387968.html#articleTabs%3Darticle\">pretty good article<\/a> in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal. He breaks down the state of the climate change movement with these five truths:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>The carbon taxers\/limiters have lost.<\/li>\n<li>Regardless of whether it&#8217;s getting hotter or colder\u2014or both\u2014we are going to need to produce a lot more energy in order to remain productive and comfortable.<\/li>\n<li>The carbon-dioxide issue is not about the United States anymore. Sure, the U.S. is the world&#8217;s second-largest energy consumer. But over the past decade, carbon-dioxide emissions in the U.S. fell by 1.7%.<\/li>\n<li>We have to get better\u2014and we are\u2014at turning energy into useful power.<\/li>\n<li>The science is not settled, not by a long shot.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203388804576612620828387968.html#articleTabs%3Darticle\">entire article<\/a> for complete expansions on these five truths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Bryce wrote a pretty good article in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal. He breaks down the state of the climate change movement with these five truths:&#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":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586","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=4586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}