{"id":8066,"date":"2015-01-28T11:27:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T17:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=8066"},"modified":"2017-12-06T19:13:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T01:13:12","slug":"denial-of-climate-change-fossil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/28\/denial-of-climate-change-fossil\/","title":{"rendered":"Denial of Climate Change Science Is Fading"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Denial of climate change, as seen here, is fast becoming a thing of the past.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Imagine you are a Senator in denial of climate change science and you just won re-election by less than 20% of the vote. In six years, about 10% of your voters will be dead, replaced with a different 10% harvested from America’s youth. The dead old white guys were on board with denying climate change, the new voters want you to address climate change. That 10% shift closes that 20% advantage in your voting base. Your political career is over unless you do something about it. People are changing their minds<\/a> and politicians will eventually follow. <\/p>\n

Peter Sinclair has a post at Climate Denial Crock of the Week<\/a> on Rick Perry’s apparent shift towards thinking climate change is for real. We recently saw a vote in the Senate that has most Senators admitting it is real, though very few Republicans admitted it is human caused. But a few did. One of the most conservative and traditional entities on the planet, The Vatican, is now telling us that not addressing climate change is immoral<\/a>. Expect at least some US priests and bishops refusing communion to climate change deniers! (Maybe.) The National Hockey League recognizes global warming as a threat to their sport<\/a>. Pipelines to transport fossil Carbon-based fuels are seen as less and less viable every day<\/a>. Even utility bosses now routinely see renewable, clean, energy sources as a big part of the future<\/a>, and the American Petroleum Institute sees anthropogenic global warming as a major threat to our future<\/a>, which they acknowledge must be addressed by shifting away from … petroleum! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imagine you are a Senator in denial of climate change science and you just won re-election by less than 20% of the vote. In six years, about 10% of your voters will be dead, replaced with a different 10% harvested from America’s youth. The dead old white guys were on board with denying climate change, … Continue reading Denial of Climate Change Science Is Fading<\/span> →<\/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":[708,21,777,20,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-266","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066"}],"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=8066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8068,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066\/revisions\/8068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}