{"id":31532,"date":"2012-11-28T13:52:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T20:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/commanding-rising-tides-didnt-work-for-king-canute-either.html"},"modified":"2012-11-28T13:52:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T20:52:24","slug":"commanding-rising-tides-didnt-work-for-king-canute-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/commanding-rising-tides-didnt-work-for-king-canute-either.html","title":{"rendered":"Commanding rising tides didn&#39;t work for King Canute, either"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But I&#39;m sure it will all be argued away. \u00a0&quot;Sunspots!&quot; &quot;United Nations!&quot; &quot;ACORN!&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/116234824425478706959'>Talking Points Memo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\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:\/\/images2-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/assets_c\/2012\/11\/earth-sea-lvl-6m-cropped-proto-custom_6.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:\/\/idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/11\/global-sea-level-rising-60-percent-faster-than-predicted-study-finds.php?ref=fpnewsfeed'>Global Sea Level Rising 60 Percent Faster Than Predicted, Study Finds<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe global sea level is rising 60 percent faster than previously predicted by the UN\u2019s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a new study of actual observed sea level data finds.\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\/QQKRMthP1X9' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But I&#39;m sure it will all be argued away. \u00a0&quot;Sunspots!&quot; &quot;United Nations!&quot; &quot;ACORN!&quot; Reshared post from +Talking Points Memo Embedded Link Global Sea Level Rising 60 Percent Faster Than Predicted, Study Finds The global sea level is rising 60 percent faster than previously predicted by the UN\u2019s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/commanding-rising-tides-didnt-work-for-king-canute-either.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Commanding rising tides didn&#39;t work for King Canute, either&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27706,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/02\/a-rising-tide-doesnt-lift-all-ships.html","url_meta":{"origin":31532,"position":0},"title":"A rising tide doesn&#39;t lift all ships","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 2-May-12 8:38am","format":false,"excerpt":"Worker productivity has continued to rise in a pretty steady fashion since 1948. 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