{"id":2285,"date":"2009-04-22T17:57:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T00:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2009-04-22T17:57:43","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T00:57:43","slug":"rep-joe-barton-thinks-oil-in-alaska-disproves-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/04\/22\/rep-joe-barton-thinks-oil-in-alaska-disproves-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep Joe Barton Thinks Oil in Alaska Disproves Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, well he didn&#8217;t exactly say that, but he certainly is a smug son of a gun who asked a grade school question to a Nobel prize winner in physics, apparently expecting a &#8220;gotcha&#8221; moment (via <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/edblog\/what-thinking-folks-are-up-against\">TPM<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>Dudes even so proud of himself that he (or his staff) posted this video on his YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RepJoeBarton\">page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BEDEVERE: Exactly. So, logically&#8230;<br \/>\nVILLAGER #1: If&#8230; she&#8230; weighs&#8230; the same as a duck,&#8230; she&#8217;s made of wood.<br \/>\nBEDEVERE: And therefore?<br \/>\nVILLAGER #2: A witch!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then again, what should you expect for someone who produced <a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/article\/2009-04-20-house-republicans-bring\/\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wind is God&#8217;s way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it&#8217;s hotter to areas where it&#8217;s cooler. That&#8217;s what wind is. Wouldn&#8217;t it be ironic if in the interest of global warming we mandated massive switches to energy, which is a finite resource, which slows the winds down, which causes the temperature to go up? Now, I&#8217;m not saying that&#8217;s going to happen, Mr. Chairman, but that is definitely something on the massive scale. I mean, it does make some sense. You stop something, you can&#8217;t transfer that heat, and the heat goes up. It&#8217;s just something to think about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, well he didn&#8217;t exactly say that, but he certainly is a smug son of a gun who asked a grade school question to a Nobel prize winner in physics, apparently expecting a &#8220;gotcha&#8221; moment (via TPM): Dudes even so proud of himself that he (or his staff) posted this video on his YouTube page. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/04\/22\/rep-joe-barton-thinks-oil-in-alaska-disproves-global-warming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rep Joe Barton Thinks Oil in Alaska Disproves Global Warming&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[50,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-the-deep-end","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}