{"id":425,"date":"2006-07-05T07:23:10","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T12:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=425"},"modified":"2006-07-19T17:46:45","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T22:46:45","slug":"an-inconvenient-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"An inconvenient fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vic again. Once a great skeptic about whether human activity has boosted global warming Vic seems to have slowly tipped over to accept that&#8217;s its true. He&#8217;s still a skeptic though.<\/p>\n<p>This morning he sent me\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/07\/04\/AR2006070400789.html\">this column<\/a> by\u00c2\u00a0Newseek&#8217;s, prescient, economic reporter Robert Samuelson. Samuelson predicts that humans being humans they will keep polluting the enviornment and only good engineering can save us. He implies that we might find the engineering solution. If we don&#8217;t find it we better cancel Federal flood insurance for everyone living within\u00c2\u00a0a hundred miles of the present coast.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vic again. Once a great skeptic about whether human activity has boosted global warming Vic seems to have slowly tipped over to accept that&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}