{"id":952,"date":"2006-12-07T15:51:02","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T20:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=952"},"modified":"2006-12-21T08:57:29","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T13:57:29","slug":"more-fencing-with-vic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=952","title":{"rendered":"More fencing with Vic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vic keeps needling me by sending me links to articles he thinks will get under my skin.<\/p>\n<p>He sent one today with nothing more than a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/releases.usnewswire.com\/GetRelease.asp?id=77195\">this page<\/a>. Its about a scientist debunking the media &#8220;hysteria&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0over global warming. You can see from my reply to Vic that\u00c2\u00a0I wasn&#8217;t overawed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Vic,<\/p>\n<p>Researcher Demmings anecdotes are interesting. If the warming nuts have indeed<br \/>\nsucceeded in sweeping the medaevil warming out of their results and projections<br \/>\nit is damnable. I wish Demming had named names. I couldn&#8217;t help but wonder if<br \/>\nhe&#8217;s a researcher who has been bought out by the corporations funding the NCPA<br \/>\nwho put bread and butter on his table much as the tobacco companies found<br \/>\nscientists to downplay the danger of tobacco to health. Could Demming be a kept<br \/>\nscientist?<\/p>\n<p>Today there was a story in the Trib about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/articles\/index.cfm?id=30172&#038;section=News\">the loss of sea grasses<\/a> and a story on<br \/>\nNPR about the loss of plant life in the oceans which has been documented by<br \/>\nsatelite photos over the last decade which confirm that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=6591611\">the oceans are getting<br \/>\nbluer<\/a> which has coincided with the warming of the surface. One consequence of<br \/>\nthis change is the increasing acidification of the waters which threatens<br \/>\ncorals. This warming also undermines fish stocks at a time when we are<br \/>\nincreasingly able to seign more fish from the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Although it was left unstated in the NPR story I thought about how the ocean<br \/>\nsurface composes 2\/3rds of the Earth&#8217;s surface. I wondered what percentage of<br \/>\nEarth&#8217;s overall plant biomass the oceans acount for and then wondered how much<br \/>\nless sequestering of CO2 resulted from the loss of this photosynthesis. The less<br \/>\nsequestering the more global warming.<\/p>\n<p>I hope my curiosity isn&#8217;t enabling the media hysteria.<\/p>\n<p>Harry&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vic keeps needling me by sending me links to articles he thinks will get under my skin. He sent one today with nothing more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952"}],"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=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}