{"id":10233,"date":"2011-10-07T18:30:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T18:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/10\/07\/an-open-letter-to-climate-chan\/"},"modified":"2017-12-06T19:14:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T01:14:54","slug":"an-open-letter-to-climate-chan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/07\/an-open-letter-to-climate-chan\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter to Climate Change Deniers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check it out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>OK, you have fought hard to deny or challenge the realities of climate change, perhaps because you are afraid of the policies that might have to be put in place; or are afraid of the possibilities of increased government intervention; or you don&#8217;t think it will be that bad; or you think it will be too expensive to do anything about; or you don&#8217;t understand the science; or you don&#8217;t trust scientists, including, by the way, every national academy of sciences and every professional scientific organization in the geosciences&#8230; or whatever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/petergleick\/2011\/10\/04\/an-open-letter-to-climate-change-deniers-and-skeptics-the-final-chocolate-straw\/\">Read the rest of this piece by Peter Gleick here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check it out: OK, you have fought hard to deny or challenge the realities of climate change, perhaps because you are afraid of the policies that might have to be put in place; or are afraid of the possibilities of increased government intervention; or you don&#8217;t think it will be that bad; or you think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/07\/an-open-letter-to-climate-chan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Open Letter to Climate Change Deniers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5021,1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2F3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28459,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233\/revisions\/28459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}