{"id":1343,"date":"2011-10-30T23:01:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T06:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2017-04-08T21:11:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T04:11:50","slug":"theyre-at-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/30\/theyre-at-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re at it again &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1344\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1344\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_20111012_151650.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_20111012_151650\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_20111012_151650.jpg 720w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_20111012_151650-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_20111012_151650-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shortly after a study <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2011\/10\/berkeley-earthquake-called-off\/\">from a former climate skeptic seemed to show that global warming is indeed happening<\/a>, anti-climate skeptics are now accusing him of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2055191\/Scientists-said-climate-change-sceptics-proved-wrong-accused-hiding-truth-colleague.html\">&#8220;hiding the truth&#8221; because the globe hasn&#8217;t warmed in the last 10 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, let&#8217;s grant that, for sake of argument. I for one believe it. But <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Climate#Definition\">climate is defined as the weather averaged over 30 years<\/a>. So even if the temperature hasn&#8217;t risen for 13 years, as they suggest, that means that it has risen for 17 out of the last 30 &#8211; and that the temperature is still rising.<\/p>\n<p>Wait another decade and then you&#8217;ve got a case to make that global warming has stopped. If the skeptics are right, as they haven&#8217;t been about almost anything for the past century or so, then we can throw a party. If they&#8217;re wrong &#8230; well, waiting another ten years <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2011\/10\/the-cost-of-inaction\/\">makes fixing the problem much harder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Understand: climate skeptics are just stalling in the hope the the problem will just go away.  Personally, I wait in joyful hope for the Resurrection &#8212; but when dealing with temporal problems, I pray for God&#8217;s good favor, then get to work.<\/p>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t we all try being real about what our problems are and working hard to fix them, for a change?<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after a study from a former climate skeptic seemed to show that global warming is indeed happening, anti-climate skeptics are now accusing him of &#8220;hiding the truth&#8221; because the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,1],"tags":[19,10,90],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-uncategorized","tag-hard-science","tag-politics","tag-the-kettlecooker-of-climate","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1348,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}