{"id":41975,"date":"2014-05-12T21:32:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T03:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/12\/a-statistically-representative-climate-change-debate.html"},"modified":"2014-05-12T21:32:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T03:32:20","slug":"a-statistically-representative-climate-change-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/12\/a-statistically-representative-climate-change-debate.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;A Statistically Representative Climate Change Debate&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">John Oliver on (what should be) the last word on the subject of <i>whether<\/i> we have human-driven climate change going on. (Damn, it&#39;s enough to make me wish I was getting HBO.)<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/117903011098040166012\" oid=\"117903011098040166012\">Kee Hinckley<\/a><\/span>, via Vox <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/NvlKAr\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/NvlKAr<\/a>)\ufeff<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-video'><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cjuGCJJUGsg' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/CcVpac9aMuU' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Oliver on (what should be) the last word on the subject of whether we have human-driven climate change going on. (Damn, it&#39;s enough to make me wish I was getting HBO.) (h\/t +Kee Hinckley, via Vox http:\/\/goo.gl\/NvlKAr)\ufeff View this post on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-41975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128302,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/14\/to-cure-climate-change-one-must-create-climate-change.html","url_meta":{"origin":41975,"position":0},"title":"To Cure Climate Change, One Must Create Climate Change","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 14-Oct-15 1:51am","format":false,"excerpt":"That is apparently the Governor of Alaska's Koan-of-the-Day, as he tells a reporter that climate change is causing major expenses to the state (such as sea-side villages being washed away), so Alaska needs to drill more oil in order to pay for it.Which is a huge heaping of cognitive dissonance\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132594,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/20\/in-case-youre-still-wondering-what-trump-thinks-about-climate-change.html","url_meta":{"origin":41975,"position":1},"title":"In case you&#039;re still wondering what Trump thinks about climate change","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Jan-17 12:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"As of Noon today, all reference to climate change and global warming vanished from the official White House web pages. 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