{"id":13336,"date":"2015-05-12T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T19:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=13336"},"modified":"2015-05-04T13:59:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T21:59:08","slug":"from-the-aprilmay-zephyr-news-flash-right-wing-fires-scientific-tradition-by-scott-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/12\/from-the-aprilmay-zephyr-news-flash-right-wing-fires-scientific-tradition-by-scott-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the April\/May Zephyr) News Flash: Right Wing Fires Scientific Tradition\u2026 by Scott Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A danger we may face with the new red-state led Congress is that over time we\u2019ll become so tired of their banality and the din of their rhetoric that we\u2019ll tune them out, progressively ignoring their destructive initiatives on behalf of the most privileged people anywhere; especially regarding our climate. So let\u2019s look at what the red-state kids have stirred up in their first month on the job leading Congress. Right out of the chute they haven\u2019t been kidding around.<\/p>\n<p>The new Senate has voted against confirming that human activity is \u201csignificantly contributing\u201d to climate change, even though that\u2019s what credible climate scientists overwhelmingly believe and it\u2019s also what informed people virtually everywhere know (if you ask me, I think the aliens know it, too). This vote means that our Senate, the most powerful legislative body on our blue Earth, refuses to take a leadership role on the most crucial issue of our time. I hope people everywhere remember this vote and don\u2019t forget the indifference it reveals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/?p=7876\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13337\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SHT1-e1425422888596.jpg\" alt=\"SHT1\" width=\"550\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/?p=7876\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.<wbr \/>canyoncountryzephyr.com\/?p=<wbr \/>7876<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: A danger we may face with the new red-state led Congress is that over time we\u2019ll become so tired of their banality and the din of their rhetoric that we\u2019ll tune them out, progressively ignoring their destructive initiatives on behalf of the most privileged people anywhere; especially regarding our climate. So let\u2019s look at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13339,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13336\/revisions\/13339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}