{"id":4126,"date":"2011-06-04T21:24:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T01:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=4126"},"modified":"2011-06-04T21:24:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T01:24:30","slug":"the-irrelevance-of-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=4126","title":{"rendered":"The Irrelevance of Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why are we still having a debate over global warming? Most of the world&#8217;s scientists agree that it&#8217;s happening. Geological data tell us that it is normal for the climate to change, so it is certainly possible that it is changing right now. And it is possible that we&#8217;re contributing to that change by altering our atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t believe we&#8217;re altering the atmosphere, just try running your car in an enclosed space. What? You don&#8217;t want to do that? Because it would kill you? Yeah, it would. And all that deadly gas spewing from your car&#8217;s tailpipe is going into the atmosphere, along with the emissions from billions of other cars, power plants, furnaces, fireplaces, and God-knows-what-else.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m going to cut you a deal, naysayers. Let&#8217;s just ignore this whole global warming thing. It is, in a way, irrelevant. The real problem is pollution. We all agree that we&#8217;re polluting the earth, right? So let&#8217;s try to stop that. In the process, we&#8217;ll limit our emission of greenhouse gases, cutting back on that which would contribute to global warming (if it did actually exist), but we&#8217;re only going to worry about keeping our earth clean. Deal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are we still having a debate over global warming? Most of the world&#8217;s scientists agree that it&#8217;s happening. Geological data tell us that it is normal for the climate to change, so it is certainly possible that it is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=4126\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[381],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4126"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4136,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126\/revisions\/4136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}