{"id":5504,"date":"2011-11-11T13:16:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T19:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2017-12-06T19:13:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T01:13:21","slug":"there-is-a-question-about-climate-change-from-a-gentleman-in-the-fourth-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/11\/there-is-a-question-about-climate-change-from-a-gentleman-in-the-fourth-row\/","title":{"rendered":"There is a question about climate change from a gentleman in the fourth row."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>He introduces himself as Richard Rothschild. He tells the crowd that he ran for county commissioner in Maryland\u2019s Carroll County because he had come to the conclusion that policies to combat global warming were actually \u201can attack on middle-class American capitalism.\u201d His question for the panelists, gathered in a Washington, DC, Marriott Hotel in late June, is this: \u201cTo what extent is this entire movement simply a green Trojan horse, whose belly is full with red Marxist socioeconomic doctrine?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here at the Heartland Institute\u2019s Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, the premier gathering for those dedicated to denying the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet, this qualifies as a rhetorical question&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/churchandstate.org.uk\/2011\/11\/capitalism-vs-the-climate\/\">Read the rest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He introduces himself as Richard Rothschild. He tells the crowd that he ran for county commissioner in Maryland\u2019s Carroll County because he had come to the conclusion that policies to combat global warming were actually \u201can attack on middle-class American capitalism.\u201d His question for the panelists, gathered in a Washington, DC, Marriott Hotel in late &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/11\/there-is-a-question-about-climate-change-from-a-gentleman-in-the-fourth-row\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There is a question about climate change from a gentleman in the fourth row.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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\/p5fhV1-1qM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5504"}],"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=5504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28457,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5504\/revisions\/28457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}