{"id":1398,"date":"2010-01-01T03:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T03:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/01\/the-ice-is-melting-the-ice-is-melting"},"modified":"2010-01-01T03:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T03:33:00","slug":"the-ice-is-melting-the-ice-is-melting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1398","title":{"rendered":"The ice is melting, the ice is melting …"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Those who deny the existence of global warming continue to amaze me.<\/p>\n

It’s not about their belief, per se. It’s more about the reasoning that accompanies it.<\/p>\n

We’ve been through a prolonged cold spell in the Texas Panhandle. They had snow in Houston a few weeks ago. Remember? All this bundling up against the bitter cold north wind that blows across the High Plains this time of year has affected people’s ability to think clearly.<\/p>\n

The mail I’m getting suggests that, given the cold weather we’ve had in our little corner of the planet, global warming is all a commie\/socialist plot to destroy our capitalist way of life. Science has told us quite categorically that the polar ice caps are melting; it has shown us all high-resolution pictures taken by weather satellites orbiting high above the earth that the world is warming up.<\/p>\n

The debate shouldn’t be about whether the world is warming up. It is. The debate should be about its cause and what, if anything, we mere human beings should do to correct it.<\/p>\n

And I just wish I could be spared the nonsense from those who suggest that a few days of snow, biting wind and cold temps mean that all this scientific stuff is a hoax.<\/p>\n

Alas, that won’t happen.<\/p>\n\n

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Those who deny the existence of global warming continue to amaze me. It’s not about their belief, per se. It’s more about the reasoning that accompanies it. We’ve been through a prolonged cold spell in the Texas Panhandle. They had snow in Houston a few weeks ago. Remember? All this bundling up against the bitter … Continue reading The ice is melting, the ice is melting …<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}