{"id":705,"date":"2010-06-07T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=705"},"modified":"2010-06-07T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T09:30:00","slug":"on-not-talking-about-agw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"On not talking about agw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought <a href=\"http:\/\/transitionculture.org\/2010\/06\/07\/exclusive-to-transition-culture-an-interview-with-chris-martenson-part-one\/\">this was interesting<\/a>, especially this quote:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I very specifically avoided that whole area [climate change] for two reasons.  The first is that I thought I could create a compelling enough sense of urgency without going into that topic, and the second reason is that I had worked with this enough in various life settings to discover that there are people on both sides of that story that hold very strong beliefs around that material&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That is the same decision I made about<a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/synopsis-of-book-let-us-be-human.html\"> my own book<\/a>, although, since &#8216;climategate&#8217;, I am wondering whether to say something more. It&#8217;s very difficult to have a conversation that doesn&#8217;t generate more heat than light &#8211; on which subject, <a href=\"http:\/\/nothing-new-under-the-sun.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/why-do-our-conversations-so-often-fail.html\">an interesting guest post<\/a> at Byron&#8217;s place today.<br \/><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this was interesting, especially this quote: &#8220;I very specifically avoided that whole area [climate change] for two reasons. The first is that I thought I could create a compelling enough sense of urgency without going into that topic, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=705\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38,29,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agw-2","category-crisis","category-lubh-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-bn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}