{"id":191724,"date":"2009-07-02T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/02\/latest-phony-gop-sh-storm\/"},"modified":"2009-07-02T05:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T10:07:00","slug":"latest-phony-gop-sh-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/02\/latest-phony-gop-sh-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Phony GOP SH%$ Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They are claiming that the <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/07\/climate_skeptic_i_was_hoping_people_at_epa_would_p.php?ref=fpa\">EPA is suppressing climate warming skeptical reports from one of their employees, Al Carlin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are, however, a few problems:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He&#8217;s an economist not a scientist.<\/li>\n<li>He was never asked the reports, this is a hobby that he does on the side, and then he writes memos about them.<\/li>\n<li>The report has been by a NASA climatologist as, &#8220;a ragbag collection of un-peer reviewed web pages, an unhealthy dose of sunstroke, a dash of astrology and more cherries than you can poke a cocktail stick at.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>He&#8217;s never been a part of the climate change working group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So basically, he&#8217;s the nutcase you ignore on an email listserv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are claiming that the EPA is suppressing climate warming skeptical reports from one of their employees, Al Carlin. There are, however, a few problems: He&#8217;s an economist not a scientist. He was never asked the reports, this is a hobby that he does on the side, and then he writes memos about them. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1079,978,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}