{"id":25837,"date":"2010-08-10T14:55:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T14:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/08\/10\/ted-stevens-dead-in-plane-cras\/"},"modified":"2010-08-10T14:55:46","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T14:55:46","slug":"ted-stevens-dead-in-plane-cras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/10\/ted-stevens-dead-in-plane-cras\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Stevens Dead in Plane Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Senator from Alaska was one of five killed in the crash of a small plane on which were nine people.  Former NASA Administrator Sean O&#8217;Keefe is among those who may or may not have.   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=129103927\">NPR<\/a> is reporting this.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in his career, Stevens was an AGW denialist, but later got on board and began to support legislation to curb human impacts on climate.  Then, later, he became a &#8220;The glacier is coming anyway&#8221; denialist, but mostly slipped into incoherent babbling when it came to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The crash apparently happened yesterday, and for some time today reports as to whether or not Stevens was killed in the crash were conflicting.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe crash occurred  near Dillington, Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>Stevens was the longest serving Republican Senator and is famous for his &#8220;Bridge to Nowhere&#8221; and his characterization of The Internet as &#8220;A series of tubes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was defeated in 2008 by Democrat Mark Begich following his conviction on corruption charges.  This was Steven&#8217;s second plane crash.  His first was at Anchorage International Airport (later renamed &#8220;Ted Stevens Airport&#8221;) in 1978.  His first wife was killed in that crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Senator from Alaska was one of five killed in the crash of a small plane on which were nine people. Former NASA Administrator Sean O&#8217;Keefe is among those who may or may not have. NPR is reporting this. Earlier in his career, Stevens was an AGW denialist, but later got on board and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/10\/ted-stevens-dead-in-plane-cras\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ted Stevens Dead in Plane Crash<\/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":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6IJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25837"}],"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=25837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}