{"id":3889,"date":"2011-11-30T16:31:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T21:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2011-11-30T16:31:01","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T21:31:01","slug":"climate-change-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2011\/11\/30\/climate-change-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my google reader feed sit two blog posts back to back.  One called <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideas\/41300?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bigthink%2Fmain+%28Big+Think+Main%29\">The New War on Science by Daniel Honan<\/a> calls &#8220;climate change deniers&#8221; to task for ignoring what he sees as a near-unanimous consensus on the reality of man-made global warming.<\/p>\n<p>Right next to that post is one called <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideas\/41313?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bigthink%2Fmain+%28Big+Think+Main%29\">Climate Showing Some Resistance to CO2<\/a>, which notes that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oregon State researchers estimate that &#8220;the most likely figure for climate sensitivity is 2.3\u00b0C, which is more than half a degree lower than the consensus figure, with a 66% probability that it lies between 1.7\u00b0 and 2.6\u00b0C.&#8221; The data was taken from ice cores, fossils and marine sediments that data back to the last ice age, about 20,000 years ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given the fact that we can&#8217;t know with 100 percent certainty that global warming will destroy the planet, how should the non scientist process this information to make policy judgments?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my google reader feed sit two blog posts back to back. One called The New War on Science by Daniel Honan calls &#8220;climate change deniers&#8221; to task for ignoring what he sees as a near-unanimous consensus on the reality of man-made global warming. Right next to that post is one called Climate Showing Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3890,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions\/3890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}