{"id":56756,"date":"2015-12-22T05:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56756"},"modified":"2015-12-21T23:03:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T05:03:03","slug":"climate-change-via-hunter-s-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56756","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Via Hunter S. Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Driving SUVs burns fossil fuels gives off carbon, which causes a greenhouse effect, which heats the planet, causing global warming.<\/p>\n<p>Except the planet isn\u2019t getting warmer, according to temperature measurements.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, but that\u2019s because driving SUVs burning fossil fuels also gives off sulfate aerosols which cool the local area where they\u2019re generated and therefore causes artificially low temperature readings, masking the extent of heating elsewhere around the world.<\/p>\n<p>End result: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/628524\/Climate-change-shock-Burning-fossil-fuels-COOLs-planet-says-NASA\">global warming is worse<\/a> than we thought because it\u2019s hidden.\u00a0 Secret Global Warming.\u00a0 So hand over your money, quick!<\/p>\n<p>I preferred \u201cepicycles,\u201d that was a more elegant solution to explain why the theory was correct in spite of the evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have a hunch Hunter S. Thompson&#8217;s legendary Samoan Lawyer is behind it all. \u00a0&#8220;It&#8217;s not necessary for you to understand the theory, or even that it be legitimate. \u00a0Merely that you keep the checks coming&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Driving SUVs burns fossil fuels gives off carbon, which causes a greenhouse effect, which heats the planet, causing global warming. Except the planet isn\u2019t getting warmer, according to temperature measurements. Ah, but that\u2019s because driving SUVs burning fossil fuels also gives off sulfate aerosols which cool the local area [&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-56756","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\/56756","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=56756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56769,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56756\/revisions\/56769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}