{"id":284,"date":"2006-04-02T08:22:31","date_gmt":"2006-04-02T12:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=284"},"modified":"2006-05-05T12:24:02","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T16:24:02","slug":"incurious-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/04\/incurious-george\/","title":{"rendered":"Incurious George"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"284\">\n<p>George Will argues <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/03\/31\/AR2006033101707.html\">now<\/a> that no one would have noticed the 0.6 deg. C of global average warming to date, if the irresponsible press had not deliberately produced anxiety by pointing it out.  He could be right.  I expect no one would have personally noticed the ozone hole either.  My grandmother smoked like a chimney and lived to be almost 100.  If that nasty press had not deliberately stoked my anxieties about cigarettes and lung cancer, I would never have figured out the connection based on my personal experience. George argues that big crusading journalism is the problem.  Ignorance is strength, right, George?<\/p>\n<p>And, oh yeah, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/01\/the-global-cooling-myth\/\">global cooling <\/a> stories, which appeared 30 years ago in the main-stream press (not the scientific literature).  Shall we compare this with Will&#8217;s deliberate and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2004\/12\/will-full-ignorance\/\">repeated <\/a> distortion of a real warning emerging from the scientific enterprise, continuing to the present day?  <\/p>\n<p>He looks like such an earnest man. I just don&#8217;t get it.  <\/p>\n<!-- kcite active, but no citations found -->\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 284 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Will argues now that no one would have noticed the 0.6 deg. C of global average warming to date, if the irresponsible press had not deliberately produced anxiety by pointing it out. He could be right. I expect no one would have personally noticed the ozone hole either. My grandmother smoked like a chimney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-climate-science","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}