{"id":1649,"date":"2021-09-14T18:20:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T18:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2021-09-14T18:20:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T18:20:18","slug":"listen-to-the-skeptics-for-heavens-sake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/09\/14\/listen-to-the-skeptics-for-heavens-sake\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to the skeptics for heaven&#8217;s sake!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the early days of the global warming hysteria, people pointed to rising temperature readings without taking into effect other causes &#8212; like that the weather station used to be in a forest, and now it&#8217;s in the middle of a development, or it used to be in a field, and now it&#8217;s sitting on black pavement. <\/p>\n<p>That came to mind when I read this. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-58494641\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World now sees twice as many days over 50C<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Yes, the world is warming. It has been since the end of the last glacial period. And yes, some of that warming is due to human activity. <\/p>\n<p>But you can&#8217;t &#8230;. No, unfortunately, you can. You <i>shouldn&#8217;t<\/i> go around making your case for radical solutions if you don&#8217;t pay attention to reasonable criticisms from skeptics. <\/p>\n<p>In this case, are there more days over 50C because we&#8217;re better at measuring them? I don&#8217;t know, and the article doesn&#8217;t say. It sure would be nice if the person writing the article was aware of that question and addressed it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the early days of the global warming hysteria, people pointed to rising temperature readings without taking into effect other causes &#8212; like that the weather station used to be in a forest, and now it&#8217;s in the middle of a development, or it used to be in a field, and now it&#8217;s sitting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/09\/14\/listen-to-the-skeptics-for-heavens-sake\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Listen to the skeptics for heaven&#8217;s sake!&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}