{"id":918,"date":"2023-07-30T06:12:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T06:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/?p=918"},"modified":"2023-07-30T06:12:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T06:12:20","slug":"120-years-of-climate-scares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/?p=918","title":{"rendered":"120 Years of Climate Scares."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/download.jpg?resize=609%2C609&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-919\" width=\"609\" height=\"609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/download.jpg?w=225&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/download.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>That\u2019s the gist of an amazing chronology of the last 120 years of scare-mongering on climate, assembled by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/butnowyouknow.net\/those-who-fail-to-learn-from-history\/climate-change-timeline\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">butnowyouknow.net<\/a>&nbsp;and reprinted by the estimable Anthony Watts in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2014\/07\/29\/a-brief-history-of-climate-panic-and-crisis-both-warming-and-cooling\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wattsupwiththat<\/a>, who updates it to the present. It is truly mind-boggling:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1895<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<em>Geologists Think the<\/em>&nbsp;<em>World May Be Frozen Up Again<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/abstract.html?res=9F02E1D8163CE433A25757C2A9649C94649ED7CF\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times, February 1895<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1902<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; \u201cDisappearing Glaciers\u2026deteriorating slowly, with a persistency that means their final annihilation\u2026scientific fact\u2026surely disappearing.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<strong>Los Angeles Times<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1912<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<em>Prof. Schmidt Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/abstract.html?res=9A04EED7113AE633A25754C0A9669D946396D6CF\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times, October 1912<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1923<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; \u201cScientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada\u201d \u2013 Professor Gregory of Yale University, American representative to the Pan-Pacific Science Congress, \u2013&nbsp;<strong>Chicago Tribune<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1923<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; \u201cThe discoveries of changes in the sun\u2019s heat and the southward advance of glaciers in recent years have given rise to conjectures of the possible advent of a new ice age\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<strong>Washington Post<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1924<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<em>MacMillan Reports Signs of New Ice Age<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/gst\/abstract.html?res=FA0C14FB3C5B12738DDDA10A94D1405B848EF1D3&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=%93MacMillan+Reports+Signs%22&amp;st=p\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times, Sept 18, 1924<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1929<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; \u201cMost geologists think the world is growing warmer, and that it will continue to get warmer\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<strong>Los Angeles Times<\/strong>, in&nbsp;<em>Is another ice age coming?<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1932<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; \u201cIf these things be true, it is evident, therefore that we must be just teetering on an ice age\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<strong>The Atlantic<\/strong>&nbsp;magazine,&nbsp;<em>This Cold, Cold World<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1933<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<em>America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-Year Rise<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/gst\/abstract.html?res=F00617FF3D5E1A7A93C5AB1788D85F478385F9&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=%22America+in+Longest+Warm+Spell+Since+1776%22&amp;st=p\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times, March 27th, 1933<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1933<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 \u201c\u2026wide-spread and persistent tendency toward warmer weather\u2026Is our climate changing?\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<strong>Federal Weather Bureau<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cMonthly Weather Review.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1938<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; Global warming, caused by man heating the planet with carbon dioxide, \u201cis likely to prove beneficial to mankind in several ways, besides the provision of heat and power.\u201d\u2013&nbsp;Quarterly Journal of the&nbsp;<strong>Royal Meteorological Society<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1938<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; \u201cExperts puzzle over 20 year mercury rise\u2026Chicago is in the front rank of thousands of cities thuout the world which have been affected by a mysterious trend toward warmer climate in the last two decades\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<strong>Chicago Tribune<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1939<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; \u201cGaffers who claim that winters were harder when they were boys are quite right\u2026 weather men have no doubt that the world at least for the time being is growing warmer\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<strong>Washington Post<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1952<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; \u201c\u2026we have learned that the world has been getting warmer in the last half century\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/gst\/abstract.html?res=F20E1EF6345A107B93C2A81783D85F468585F9&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=%22has+been+getting+warmer+in+the+last+half+century%22&amp;st=p\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times, August 10th, 1962<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1954<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; \u201c\u2026winters are getting milder, summers drier. Glaciers are receding, deserts growing\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<strong>U.S. News and World Report<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1954<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<em>Climate \u2013 the Heat May Be Off<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<strong>Fortune Magazine<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1959<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; \u201cArctic Findings in Particular Support Theory of Rising Global Temperatures\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<strong>New York Times<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1969<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; \u201c\u2026the Arctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/gst\/abstract.html?res=F40A11FC3959147493C2AB1789D85F4D8685F9&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=%22Arctic+pack+ice+is+thinning+and+that+the+ocean+at+the%22&amp;st=p\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times, February 20th, 1969<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1969<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 \u201cIf I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000\u2033 \u2014&nbsp;<strong>Paul Ehrlich<\/strong>&nbsp;(while he now predicts doom from global warming, this quote only gets honorable mention, as he was talking about his crazy fear of overpopulation)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1970<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; \u201c\u2026get a good grip on your long johns, cold weather haters \u2013 the worst may be yet to come\u2026there\u2019s no relief in sight\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<strong>Washington Post<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1974<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; Global cooling for the past forty years \u2013&nbsp;<strong>Time Magazine<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1974<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; \u201cClimatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age\u201d \u2013<strong>Washington Post<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1974<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; \u201cAs for the present cooling trend a number of leading climatologists have concluded that it is very bad news indeed\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<strong>Fortune<\/strong>&nbsp;magazine, who won a Science Writing Award from the American Institute of Physics for its analysis of the danger<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1974<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; \u201c\u2026the facts of the present climate change are such that the most optimistic experts would assign near certainty to major crop failure\u2026mass deaths by starvation, and probably anarchy and violence\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<strong>New York Times<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1975<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<em>Scientists Ponder Why World\u2019s Climate is Changing; A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/select.nytimes.com\/gst\/abstract.html?res=F50B1FFD395D137B93C3AB178ED85F418785F9&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=%22Scientists+Ponder+Why+World%92s+Climate+is+Changing%22&amp;st=p\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times, May 21st, 1975<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1975<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; \u201cThe threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind\u201d Nigel Calder, editor,&nbsp;<strong>New Scientist<\/strong>&nbsp;magazine, in an article in International Wildlife Magazine<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1976<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; \u201cEven U.S. farms may be hit by cooling trend\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<strong>U.S. News and World Report<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; Global Warming \u2013 \u201cof an almost unprecedented magnitude\u201d \u2013 New York Times<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; I would like to draw three main conclusions. Number one, the earth is warmer in 1988 than at any time in the history of instrumental measurements. Number two, the global warming is now large enough that we can ascribe with a high degree of confidence a cause and effect relationship to the greenhouse effect. And number three, our computer climate simulations indicate that thegreenhouse effect is already large enough to begin to effect the probability of extreme events such as summer heat waves. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>Jim Hansen<\/strong>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/image.guardian.co.uk\/sys-files\/Environment\/documents\/2008\/06\/23\/ClimateChangeHearing1988.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 1988 testimony<\/a>&nbsp;before Congress, see&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/butnowyouknow.net\/those-who-fail-to-learn-from-history\/climate-change-timeline\/#hype\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">His later quote<\/a>&nbsp;and<a href=\"http:\/\/butnowyouknow.net\/those-who-fail-to-learn-from-history\/climate-change-timeline\/#horror\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">His superior\u2019s objection<\/a>&nbsp;for context<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong>&nbsp;-\u201cOn the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but \u2013 which means that we must include all doubts, the caveats, the ifs, ands and buts. On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. And like most people we\u2019d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climate change. To do that we need to get some broad based support, to capture the public\u2019s imagination. That, of course, means getting loads of media coverage.&nbsp;<strong>So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.<\/strong>&nbsp;This \u201cdouble ethical bind\u201d we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<strong>Stephen Schneider<\/strong>, lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,<strong>Discover<\/strong>&nbsp;magazine, October 1989<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; \u201cWe\u2019ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing \u2013 in terms of economic policy and environmental policy\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<strong>Senator Timothy Wirth<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; \u201cGlobal climate change may alter temperature and rainfall patterns, many scientists fear, with uncertain consequences for agriculture.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<strong>U.S. News and World Report<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; No matter if the science [of global warming] is all phony . . . climate change [provides] the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.\u201d \u2014Christine Stewart, Canadian Minister of the Environment,&nbsp;<strong>Calgary Herald<\/strong>, 1998<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2001<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; \u201cScientists no longer doubt that global warming is happening, and almost nobody questions the fact that humans are at least partly responsible.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,999630,00.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Time Magazine, Monday, Apr. 09, 2001<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2003<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; Emphasis on extreme scenarios may have been appropriate at one time, when the public and decision-makers were relatively unaware of the global warming issue, and energy sources such as \u201csynfuels,\u201d shale oil and tar sands were receiving strong consideration\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<strong>Jim Hansen<\/strong>, NASA Global Warming activist,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/naturalscience.com\/ns\/articles\/01-16\/ns_jeh6.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Can we defuse The Global Warming Time Bomb?<\/a>, 2003<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2006<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; \u201cI believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.\u201d \u2014 Al Gore,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/news\/maindish\/2006\/05\/09\/roberts\/index.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grist magazine, May 2006<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2006<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 \u201cIt is not a debate over whether the earth has been warming over the past century. The earth is always warming or cooling, at least a few tenths of a degree\u2026\u201d \u2014<strong>Richard S. Lindzen<\/strong>, the Alfred P. Sloan&nbsp;<strong>professor of meteorology<\/strong>&nbsp;at&nbsp;<strong>MIT<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2006<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 \u201cWhat we have fundamentally forgotten is simple primary school science. Climate always changes. It is always\u2026warming or cooling, it\u2019s never stable. And if it were stable, it would actually be interesting scientifically because it would be the first time for four and a half billion years.\u201d \u2014<strong>Philip Stott<\/strong>, emeritus professor of bio-geography at the&nbsp;<strong>University of London<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2006<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; \u201cSince 1895, the media has alternated between global cooling and warming scares during four separate and sometimes overlapping time periods. From 1895 until the 1930\u2019s the media peddled a coming ice age. From the late 1920\u2019s until the 1960\u2019s they warned of global warming. From the 1950\u2019s until the 1970\u2019s they warned us again of a coming ice age. This makes modern global warming the fourth estate\u2019s fourth attempt to promote opposing climate change fears during the last 100 years.\u201d \u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/epw.senate.gov\/speechitem.cfm?party=rep&amp;id=263759\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Senator James Inhofe<\/a>, Monday, September 25, 2006<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2007<\/strong>&#8211; \u201cI gave a talk recently (on fallacies of global warming) and three members of the Canadian government, the environmental cabinet, came up afterwards and said, \u2018We agree with you, but it\u2019s not worth our jobs to say anything.\u2019 So what\u2019s being created is a huge industry with billions of dollars of government money and people\u2019s jobs dependent on it.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<strong>Dr. Tim Ball<\/strong>, Coast-to-Coast, Feb 6, 2007<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2008<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 \u201cHansen was never muzzled even though he violated NASA\u2019s official agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to forecast climate change or mankind\u2019s effect on it). Hansen thus embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of global warming in 1988 in his testimony before Congress\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<strong>Dr. John S. Theon<\/strong>, retired&nbsp;<strong>Chief of the Climate Processes Research Program<\/strong>&nbsp;at<strong>NASA<\/strong>, see above for Hansen quotes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Section updated by Anthony:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2009<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<em>Climate change: melting ice will trigger wave of natural disasters.<\/em>&nbsp;Scientists at a London conference next week will warn of earthquakes, avalanches and volcanic eruptions as the atmosphere heats up and geology is altered. Even Britain could face being struck by tsunamis \u2013 \u201cNot only are the oceans and atmosphere conspiring against us, bringing baking temperatures, more powerful storms and floods, but the crust beneath our feet seems likely to join in too,\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<strong>Professor Bill McGuire<\/strong>, director of the Benfield Hazard Research Centre, at University College London, \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2009\/sep\/06\/global-warming-natural-disasters-conference\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian, Sep 2009<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2010<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<em>What Global Warming Looks Like.<\/em>&nbsp;It was more than 5\u00b0C (about 10\u00b0F) warmer than climatology in the eastern European region including Moscow. There was an area in eastern Asia that was similarly unusually hot. The eastern part of the United States was unusually warm, although not to the degree of the hot spots in Eurasia.&nbsp;<strong>James Hansen<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/data.giss.nasa.gov\/gistemp\/2010july\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASA GISS, August 11, 2010<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2011<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<em>Where Did Global Warming Go?<\/em>&nbsp;\u201cIn Washington, \u2018climate change\u2019 has become a lightning rod, it\u2019s a four-letter word,\u201d said&nbsp;<strong>Andrew J. Hoffman<\/strong>, director of the University of Michigan\u2019s Erb Institute for Sustainable Development. &nbsp; \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/16\/sunday-review\/whatever-happened-to-global-warming.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times, Oct 15, 2011.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2012<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<em>Global warming close to becoming irreversible-scientists.<\/em>&nbsp;\u201cThis is the critical decade. If we don\u2019t get the curves turned around this decade we will cross those lines,\u201d said&nbsp;<strong>Will Steffen<\/strong>, executive director of the Australian National University\u2019s climate change institute, speaking at a conference in London.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/03\/26\/us-climate-thresholds-idUSBRE82P0UJ20120326\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters, Mar 26, 2012<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2013<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<em>Global-warming \u2018proof\u2019 is&nbsp;evaporating.<\/em>&nbsp; The 2013 hurricane season just ended as one of the five quietest years since 1960. But don\u2019t expect anyone who pointed to last year\u2019s hurricanes as \u201cproof\u201d of the need to act against global warming to apologize; the warmists don\u2019t work that way.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2013\/12\/05\/global-warming-proof-is-evaporating\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Post, Dec 5, 2013<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2014<\/strong>&nbsp; \u2013&nbsp;<em>Climate change: It\u2019s even worse than we thought.&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;Five years ago, the last report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change painted a gloomy picture of our planet\u2019s future. As climate scientists gather evidence for the next report, due in 2014, Michael Le Page gives seven reasons why things are looking even grimmer. \u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/special\/worse-climate\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Scientist<\/a>&nbsp;(undated in 2014)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[185,642,764,765],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-agwfraud","tag-anthony-watts","tag-climatechange","tag-wattsupwiththat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australianclimatesceptics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}