{"id":188,"date":"2009-12-28T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2009\/12\/28\/distilling-debate-on-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:49:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:49:13","slug":"distilling-debate-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2009\/12\/28\/distilling-debate-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Distilling the debate on climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like me, you might be a bit confused about what exactly is everyone arguing about when it comes to climate change?<\/p>\n<p>If you watch Al Gore&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecrisis.net\/\">An Inconvenient Truth<\/a>, things look pretty clear. But then you read a <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/washington\/2009\/12\/al-gore-oscar-global-warming.html\">story<\/a> demanding that Gore&#8217;s Academy Award should be revoked because the film is all smoke and mirrors. <\/p>\n<p>For most of us, the debate becomes the story &#8211; not the facts or allegations themselves. Fortunately, there are people who like to get at the facts of the argument and present them in a way that we can understand.<\/p>\n<p>Here then, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationisbeautiful.net\/visualizations\/climate-change-deniers-vs-the-consensus\/\">Information is Beautiful<\/a> website are the arguments for and against global warming, presented in a straightforward, well-researched and easily understood format.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/factcheck.org\/2009\/12\/climategate\/\">Factcheck.org<\/a> has looked closely at the &#8220;Climategate&#8221; issue in <a href=\"http:\/\/factcheck.org\/2009\/12\/climategate\/\">this article.<\/a> Same conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2009\/12\/22\/climate-change\"><em>via Daring Fireball<\/em><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like me, you might be a bit confused about what exactly is everyone arguing about when it comes to climate change? If you watch Al Gore&#8217;s An Inconvenient Truth, things look pretty clear. But then you read a story demanding that Gore&#8217;s Academy Award should be revoked because the film is all smoke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-32","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}