{"id":472,"date":"2007-09-11T10:21:40","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T14:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=472"},"modified":"2007-09-11T10:24:22","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T14:24:22","slug":"science-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"Science guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Tierney was <a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=211\">a terrible columnist<\/a>.  Now he&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/11\/science\/earth\/11tiern.html?8dpc\">terrible science writer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>>After looking at one too many projections of global-warming disasters \u2014 computer graphics of coasts swamped by rising seas, mounting death tolls from heat waves \u2014 I was ready for a reality check. Instead of imagining a warmer planet, I traveled to a place that has already felt the heat, accompanied by Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish <strong>political scientist<\/strong> and scourge of <strong>environmentalist orthodoxy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s reinterpret this.  &#8220;After not doing any serious research on global warming, I went to talk to a famous and obviously unqualified skeptic, who, oddly, doesn&#8217;t really even doubt the reality of global warming.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Tierney was a terrible columnist. Now he&#8217;s a terrible science writer: >After looking at one too many projections of global-warming disasters \u2014 computer graphics of coasts swamped by rising seas, mounting death tolls from heat waves \u2014 I was ready for a reality check. Instead of imagining a warmer planet, I traveled to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=472\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Science guy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inexplicable","category-john-tierney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}