{"id":41020,"date":"2014-01-09T08:41:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T14:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41020"},"modified":"2014-01-09T08:41:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T14:41:01","slug":"and-then-a-miracle-occurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41020","title":{"rendered":"And Then A Miracle Occurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The reason it\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/science.time.com\/2014\/01\/06\/climate-change-driving-cold-weather\/\" target=\"_blank\">so cold is because of global warming.\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0See, the Earth being so much warmer, that warm air has spread to the North Pole, where it dislodged a spinning top full of cold air that\u2019s spilling over the nation, making the US colder.\u00a0 It\u2019s colder because it\u2019s warmer.<\/p>\n<p>True, none of the climate change models predicted this effect; but that only means we have a lot to learn about how badly humans have screwed up the planet by driving SUVs and eating beef.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I concede I know nothing about climate science so it\u2019s at least possible the new and improved theory is true.\u00a0 But adding Polar Vortex now smells a lot like adding Retrograde Motion to explain why the other planets really do revolve around the Earth. \u00a0I remain skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Turns out the thing I never learned about the scientific method during my semester as a biology major &#8211; &#8220;all evidence for AND against a theory supports the theory&#8221; &#8211; was the thing I needed most.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The reason it\u2019s\u00a0so cold is because of global warming.\u00a0\u00a0See, the Earth being so much warmer, that warm air has spread to the North Pole, where it dislodged a spinning top full of cold air that\u2019s spilling over the nation, making the US colder.\u00a0 It\u2019s colder because it\u2019s warmer. True, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warmingcoolingchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41022,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41020\/revisions\/41022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}