{"id":74,"date":"2008-12-29T11:40:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T18:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=74"},"modified":"2009-10-28T17:04:38","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T00:04:38","slug":"friends-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Scientific naysayers deny human agency in climate change: Friends of Science.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FriendsOfScience.com denies human agency in climate change, presenting themselves using a scientific argument and tone. For example:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;MYTH 1:  Global temperatures are rising at a rapid, unprecedented rate.<br \/>\nFACT:  Accurate satellite, balloon and mountain top observations made over the last three decades have not shown any significant change in the long term rate of increase in global temperatures&#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Watching the video, it seems they are attributing climate change in part to the same extra terrestrial energy which gave the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fantastic_Four\">fantastic four<\/a> their extraordinary powers: cosmic rays. They argue that when the solar wind is low, more cosmic rays reach the earth which can be shown to be correlated with cloud formation. <\/p>\n<p>See the alledged scientific video:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-uC4mwiRPks&#038;border=1&#038;color1=0x6699&#038;color2=0x54abd6&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-uC4mwiRPks&#038;border=1&#038;color1=0x6699&#038;color2=0x54abd6&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofscience.org\/index.php?id=3\">Friends of Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FriendsOfScience.com denies human agency in climate change, presenting themselves using a scientific argument and tone. For example: &#8216;MYTH 1: Global temperatures are rising at a rapid, unprecedented rate. FACT: Accurate satellite, balloon and mountain top observations made over the last three decades have not shown any significant change in the long term rate of increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}