{"id":8636,"date":"2013-07-30T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=8636"},"modified":"2013-07-30T12:02:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T20:02:42","slug":"aprilmay-2013-global-warming-maybe-denial-is-working-for-betty-and-lou-but-it-isnt-for-their-teenagersby-scott-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/30\/aprilmay-2013-global-warming-maybe-denial-is-working-for-betty-and-lou-but-it-isnt-for-their-teenagersby-scott-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"(April\/May 2013) Global Warming: Maybe Denial is Working for Betty and Lou, but it Isn\u2019t for Their Teenagers\u2026by Scott Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Excerpt: <\/strong>Kevin Anderson, a climate scientist at the University of Manchester in the U.K., is one of those humans who somehow never learned to be a proper, timid professional, and is therefore honest to a fault. One of our species\u2019 success stories: may his genes pass on. So it wasn\u2019t surprising that in a lecture in November, 2012, he said, \u201c\u2026the scientific community repeatedly underplays the story. That\u2019s what I\u2019m trying to show here. Very unpopular with some of my colleagues\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo across the board everyone\u2019s saying we can\u2019t be honest about two degrees C [of warming above pre-industrial]. I was at an event recently, a Chatham House event so I can\u2019t tell you who was there, but a very senior government scientist and someone very senior from an oil company\u2026these very senior people said, \u2018Well, I think we\u2019re on for 4 to 6 degrees C, but we just can\u2019t be open about it.\u2019 But that is going on all the time behind the scenes, that somehow we can\u2019t tell the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shout it, brother: not only is the public not being told that at least a 4 degree C world is hurtling toward us like a Texas-sized asteroid, it also isn\u2019t being told what that world will be like once it hits&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click the image below to read the rest of Scott&#8217;s story: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/04\/01\/global-warming-maybe-denial-is-working-for-betty-and-lou-but-it-isnt-for-their-teenagers-by-scott-thompson\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8637\" alt=\"carljung\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/carljung.jpg\" width=\"223\" height=\"311\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/04\/01\/global-warming-maybe-denial-is-working-for-betty-and-lou-but-it-isnt-for-their-teenagers-by-scott-thompson\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/04\/01\/global-warming-maybe-denial-is-working-for-betty-and-lou-but-it-isnt-for-their-teenagers-by-scott-thompson\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: Kevin Anderson, a climate scientist at the University of Manchester in the U.K., is one of those humans who somehow never learned to be a proper, timid professional, and is therefore honest to a fault. One of our species\u2019 success stories: may his genes pass on. So it wasn\u2019t surprising that in a lecture [&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-8636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8636","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=8636"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9390,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8636\/revisions\/9390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}