{"id":18046,"date":"2013-10-29T22:03:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T03:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=18046"},"modified":"2013-10-29T22:03:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T03:03:02","slug":"tell-the-minneapolis-star-tribune-dont-promote-climate-change-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/29\/tell-the-minneapolis-star-tribune-dont-promote-climate-change-denial\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell the Minneapolis Star Tribune: Don\u2019t promote climate change denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This from The Big E at MPP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The LA Times recently instituted a policy change: they no longer print letters to the editor from climate change deniers. The LA Times believes that peer-reviewed work by established scientists have overwhelmingly proven that our planet is warming and this is leading to significant climate change.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And those scientists have provided ample evidence that human activity is indeed linked to climate change. Just last month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change \u2014 a body made up of the world\u2019s top climate scientists \u2014 said it was 95% certain that we fossil-fuel-burning humans are driving global warming. The debate right now isn\u2019t whether this evidence exists (clearly, it does) but what this evidence means for us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The LA Times started this and I think that the Minneapolis Star Tribune should join them.<\/p>\n<p>As recently as October 22nd, the Strib printed a letter from a climate denier crank from California.<\/p>\n<p>On October 14th, they published an op-ed by former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson. Gerson isn\u2019t exactly a denier, instead he\u2019s trying to vilify the messengers and, via ad hominem attacks, show that climate change and global warming are not believable.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, the Strib allows Republicans to tell any old lie they want to on their editorial page. But it\u2019s time to tell them to put an end to the anti-science malarkey the climate deniers want printed.<\/p>\n<p>Please sign the petition asking the Minneapolis Star Tribune to join the LA Times in no longer publishing climate denier letters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mnprogressiveproject.com\/tell-the-minneapolis-star-tribune-dont-promote-climate-change-denial\/\">PLEASE CLICK HERE, READ THE DETAILS, GET THE LINKS, AND SIGN THE DAMN PETITION!!!!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This from The Big E at MPP: The LA Times recently instituted a policy change: they no longer print letters to the editor from climate change deniers. The LA Times believes that peer-reviewed work by established scientists have overwhelmingly proven that our planet is warming and this is leading to significant climate change. And those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/29\/tell-the-minneapolis-star-tribune-dont-promote-climate-change-denial\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tell the Minneapolis Star Tribune: Don\u2019t promote climate change denial<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[148,1746,1882],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4H4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18046"}],"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=18046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18046\/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=18046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}