{"id":683,"date":"2008-06-02T07:45:04","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T11:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=683"},"modified":"2008-06-02T09:26:38","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T13:26:38","slug":"ive-got-a-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"I’ve got a fever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking of facts–I mean whether they matter on the op-ed page–pointing out that someone else has distorted or minimized or ignored inconvenient facts seems to me to be one of the hallmarks of an op-ed since it's one of the key moves in any critical argument.  Perhaps for that reason alone op-ed editors ought to be ever more vigilant for claims such as the following<\/a> from George Will:<\/p>\n

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Regarding McCain's "central facts," the U.N.<\/a>'s World Meteorological Organization, which helped establish the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change<\/a> — co-winner, with Al Gore<\/a>, of the Nobel Peace Prize<\/a> — says global temperatures have not risen in a decade<\/strong>. So Congress might be arriving late at the save-the-planet party. Better late than never? No. When government, ever eager to expand its grip on the governed and their wealth, manufactures hysteria <\/strong>as an excuse for doing so, then: better never.  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sounds like the IPCC says the globe isn't warming.  But<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Warming of the climate system is unequivocal<\/strong>, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea level.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That's the IPCC report of 2007.  Will seems to think temperature and climate are the same thing.  They're obviously not.  Can't someone at the Post tell him?  <\/p>\n

The rest of his piece seemed a perfectly fine excursus on why some proposed measure to address global warming (cap and trade of carbon emissions) is a bad idea.  It might be.  But not because global warming is a communist hoax.  What communist hoax would use a capitalist system–trading and markets–to undermine capitalism?  But maybe that's just what the communists want us to think. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaking of facts–I mean whether they matter on the op-ed page–pointing out that someone else has distorted or minimized or ignored inconvenient facts seems to me to be one of the hallmarks of an op-ed since it's one of the key moves in any critical argument.  Perhaps for that reason alone op-ed editors ought to … Continue reading I’ve got a fever<\/span> →<\/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":[7,54],"tags":[129,174],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-will","category-things-that-are-false","tag-george-will","tag-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","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=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}