{"id":592,"date":"2009-03-17T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/17\/steele-denies-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T14:08:00","slug":"steele-denies-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/17\/steele-denies-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Steele denies climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the GOP trying to reinvent itself on the back of embattled party chairman Michael Steele, mocking the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/\">overwhelming<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/306\/5702\/1686\">scientific<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2008\/02\/27\/global_warming_deniers\/\">consensus<\/a> on climate change doesn&#8217;t seem like the right move.  But that&#8217;s exactly what Steele did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/03\/16\/steeles-tour-de-force-com_n_175317.html\">when he guest-hosted conservative William Bennett&#8217;s talk radio show<\/a>.  Steele chimed in when a listener called in to scoff at the notion of a warming planet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Thank you, thank you,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I am using my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process. Greenland, which is now covered in ice, it was once called Greenland for a reason, right? Iceland, which is now green. Oh I love this. Like we know what this planet is all about. How long have we been here? How long? No very long.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the GOP trying to reinvent itself on the back of embattled party chairman Michael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}