{"id":31148,"date":"2012-11-05T18:12:19","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T01:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/hurricane-sandy-climate-change-and-wikipedia.html"},"modified":"2014-11-12T15:49:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T22:49:23","slug":"hurricane-sandy-climate-change-and-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/hurricane-sandy-climate-change-and-wikipedia.html","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Sandy, Climate Change, and Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia is an amazing thing, both as a resource and as a sociological phenomenon. \u00a0Where it tends to have problems is where the latter bumps heads with the former.<\/p>\n<p>(Note: as of this writing, there is a small area of the Hurricane Sandy entry that discusses its relationship with global warming.)<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images3-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/www.popsci.com.au\/technology\/meet-the-climate-change-denier-who-became-the-voice-of-hurricane-sandy-on-wikipedia\/kenmampel20121103074617.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.popsci.com.au\/technology\/meet-the-climate-change-denier-who-became-the-voice-of-hurricane-sandy-on-wikipedia'>Meet The Climate Change Denier Who Became The Voice Of Hurrican | Australian Popular Science<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&#8220;All I am is a contributor. I have no title, I&#8217;m just a Joe Blow,&#8221; says Ken Mampel, a currently&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/SftP9r3hGnG' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia is an amazing thing, both as a resource and as a sociological phenomenon. \u00a0Where it tends to have problems is where the latter bumps heads with the former. (Note: as of this writing, there is a small area of the Hurricane Sandy entry that discusses its relationship with global warming.) 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