{"id":125,"date":"2006-05-23T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/?p=125"},"modified":"2022-07-20T15:37:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T22:37:45","slug":"on-global-warming-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/on-global-warming-again","title":{"rendered":"On global warming&#8230; again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Believe me, I&#8217;m not trying to say that global temperatures aren&#8217;t rising, but I have a difficult time believing that our burning of fossil fuels is the biggest factor in it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2004\/07\/18\/wsun18.xml&amp;sSheet=\/news\/2004\/07\/18\/ixnewstop.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&#8217;s an article<\/a> that argues against the commonly accepted notion that our actions are the sole reason for the global increase in temperature and says that while CO<sub>2<\/sub> levels might be a contributing factor, the sun itself is actually hotter. Nothing we do here affects the sun.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve only recently (relative to history) been able to track changes in things like this. Such short-sighted analysis of what amounts to a blip in the timeline of the history of the planet doesn&#8217;t seem right to me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE EDIT:<\/strong> I have since realized that my thinking on this topic was seriously flawed. Climate Change is definitely a real thing and it is for sure being made worse by human activities. I&#8217;m keeping the original posts up, as I think it&#8217;s important for people to see that opinions can change after new information is learned.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><small>This entry doesn&#8217;t believe that the sky is falling or that we&#8217;re ruining the planet.<\/small><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe me, I&#8217;m not trying to say that global temperatures aren&#8217;t rising, but I have a difficult time believing that our burning of fossil fuels is the biggest factor in it. Here&#8217;s an article that argues against the commonly accepted notion that our actions are the sole reason for the global increase in temperature and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}