{"id":6046,"date":"2013-12-03T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6046"},"modified":"2013-11-27T13:58:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T18:58:01","slug":"a-chilling-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6046","title":{"rendered":"A Chilling Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if I told you that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2013\/09\/23\/antarctic-sea-ice-hit-35-year-record-high-saturday\/\">ice levels in Antarctica have reached 35-year record highs<\/a>? What if I told you that the rise in the <a href=\"http:\/\/mrc.org\/articles\/antarctica-not-melting-ice-levels-record-high\">surface temperature of the earth has been markedly slower over the last 15 years than in the 20 years before that<\/a>? And what if I told you that the lull in warming has occurred even as greenhouse gases have accumulated in the atmosphere at a record pace?<\/p>\n<p>Well figure out what you would do if I told you, because I\u2019m telling you. And I\u2019ll tell you this as well; many climate scientists aren\u2019t sure what to do. They\u2019re trying to come up with explanations, but so far they\u2019re just theories plucked out of thin air. <\/p>\n<p>When the facts don\u2019t fit the theories, scientists claim that they will rework the theories. Well, so far, we\u2019ve seen little reworking and more digging in. And here\u2019s another \u201cwhat if\u201d; what if the media gave this as much attention as they did stories of a spot here or a point there where warming is occurring? This isn\u2019t <i>weather<\/i>, as they love to say; this is a pause in the warming of the <i>climate<\/i> that they\u2019re having trouble figuring out. What if people were told about this, or is liberal orthodoxy in the media having a chilling effect?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if I told you that ice levels in Antarctica have reached 35-year record highs? What if I told you that the rise in the surface temperature of the earth has been markedly slower over the last 15 years than in the 20 years before that? And what if I told you that the lull [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16,17,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-environment","category-global-warming","category-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}