{"id":18543,"date":"2014-01-09T10:42:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T16:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=18543"},"modified":"2014-01-09T10:42:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T16:42:52","slug":"rush-limbaugh-and-the-liberal-polar-vortex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/09\/rush-limbaugh-and-the-liberal-polar-vortex\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Limbaugh and the Liberal Polar Vortex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Here&#8217;s the thing<\/em>: Shauna Theel has a video on the Polar Vortex vs. Rush Limbaugh:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on Jan 9, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Media Matters Climate &#038; Energy Program Director Shauna Theel debunks Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s conspiracy that the &#8220;polar vortex&#8221; was created by the media to lie to you about climate change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/m9Sh8oz-Jsw?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/significantfigures\/\">Peter Gleick<\/a> previously posted this Google Ngram on the term &#8220;Polar Vortex&#8221; and al Roker tweeted about it as well:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alroker\">@alroker<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaleekreider\">@kaleekreider<\/a> Here is the actual history of the use of term &quot;polar vortex&quot;. I looked it up. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/9ZtoDLawyD\">pic.twitter.com\/9ZtoDLawyD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Peter Gleick (@PeterGleick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterGleick\/statuses\/420712929281839105\">January 8, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a bigger copy of Peter&#8217;s ngram:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2014\/01\/BdasLh9CEAAiai7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2014\/01\/BdasLh9CEAAiai7-640x331.png?resize=604%2C312\" alt=\"BdasLh9CEAAiai7\" width=\"604\" height=\"312\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18545\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the thing: Shauna Theel has a video on the Polar Vortex vs. Rush Limbaugh: Published on Jan 9, 2014 Media Matters Climate &#038; Energy Program Director Shauna Theel debunks Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s conspiracy that the &#8220;polar vortex&#8221; was created by the media to lie to you about climate change. Peter Gleick previously posted this Google &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/09\/rush-limbaugh-and-the-liberal-polar-vortex\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rush Limbaugh and the Liberal Polar Vortex<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[161,148,856,3153,548,1192],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4P5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18543"}],"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=18543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18543\/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=18543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}