{"id":17802,"date":"2013-09-21T14:10:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T19:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=17802"},"modified":"2013-09-21T14:10:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T19:10:50","slug":"mat-ridley-wrong-john-abraham-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/21\/mat-ridley-wrong-john-abraham-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Ridley Wrong, John Abraham Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, formerly respected writer Matt Ridley has been making a fool of himself with absurd and scientifically unsupported commentary on climate change.  Recently he wrote something for the Wall Street Journal, &#8220;Dialing Back the Alarm on Climate Change,&#8221; that serves as an example of this.<\/p>\n<p>Professor John Abraham has also provided an item for the Wall Street Journal that addresses Ridley&#8217;s goof.  As Abraham puts it, &#8220;Matt Ridley states that a forthcoming major climate change report will lower the expected temperature rise we will experience in the future (&#8220;A Reprieve From Climate Doom,&#8221; Review, Sept. 14). He also claims that the temperature rise will be beneficial. I was an expert reviewer of the report.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324492604579082923953178930?mg=reno64-wsj.html%3fdsk=y\">Read John&#8217;s full letter to the WSJ here. <\/a>  In it you&#8217;ll find the link to Ridley&#8217;s piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, formerly respected writer Matt Ridley has been making a fool of himself with absurd and scientifically unsupported commentary on climate change. Recently he wrote something for the Wall Street Journal, &#8220;Dialing Back the Alarm on Climate Change,&#8221; that serves as an example of this. Professor John Abraham has also provided an item for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/21\/mat-ridley-wrong-john-abraham-right\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Matt Ridley Wrong, John Abraham Right<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3545,148,856,1426,2192,857,3854],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4D8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17802"}],"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=17802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}