{"id":21965,"date":"2014-02-20T14:55:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T19:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21965"},"modified":"2014-02-20T14:59:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T19:59:20","slug":"i-might-be-a-member-of-the-flat-earth-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21965","title":{"rendered":"I Might Be A Member Of The Flat Earth Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I might be a member of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Flat Earth Society\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theflatearthsociety.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">the flat earth society<\/a>. I don&#8221;t believe the earth is flat, but I don&#8217;t believe that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Global warming\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Global_warming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">global warming<\/a> is caused by man either. So <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"John Kerry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/celebrity\/1008257-john_kerry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"rottentomatoes\">Secretary of State John Kerry<\/a> compares me to a member of the flat earth society. Well, let&#8217;s see how John Kerry&#8217;s data on man-made global warming stacks up with reality.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ed Morrissey\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ed_Morrissey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Ed Morrissey<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2014\/02\/20\/wsj-to-kerry-flat-earthers-were-the-consensus-position\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hot Air<\/a> posted an article today about what the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Scientific modelling\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scientific_modelling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">scientific models<\/a> have predicted about global warming and what has actually happened.<\/p>\n<p>This is the chart:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"wsj-temps-lg2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wsj-temps-lg2.jpg\" width=\"515\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, the truth has simply not kept up with the scientific predictions.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Wall Street Journal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> posted an article yesterday that stated:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;Consensus&#8221; science that ignores reality can have tragic consequences if cures are ignored or promising research is abandoned. The climate-change consensus is not endangering lives, but the way it imperils <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Economic growth\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Economic_growth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">economic growth<\/a> and warps government policy making has made the future considerably bleaker. The recent <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Obama administration\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/obama-administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Obama administration<\/a> announcement that it would not provide aid for fossil-fuel energy in developing countries, thereby consigning millions of people to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Energy poverty\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Energy_poverty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">energy poverty<\/a>, is all too reminiscent of the Sick and Health Board denying fresh fruit to dying British sailors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before we take actions that negatively impact the economy of the entire world, we really do need to make sure that the science we are using to justify the actions is valid.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_h.png?x-id=fbfb6792-2c88-4d42-b068-cea878777df1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I might be a member of the flat earth society. I don&#8221;t believe the earth is flat, but I don&#8217;t believe that global warming is caused by man either. So Secretary of State John Kerry compares me to a member &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21965\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7138,401,221,5834,57,1281,562,135,238],"class_list":["post-21965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-earth","tag-economic-growth","tag-ed-morrissey","tag-flat-earth-society","tag-global-warming","tag-john-kerry","tag-obama","tag-obama-administration","tag-wall-street-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21968,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21965\/revisions\/21968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}