{"id":277,"date":"2012-05-02T02:44:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T02:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=277"},"modified":"2012-05-02T02:44:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T02:44:47","slug":"a-first-for-a-headline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"A First for a Headline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Science\/2012\/0430\/Don-t-believe-the-headlines.-Wind-farms-do-not-cause-global-warming\">Don&#8217;t believe the headlines. Wind farms do not cause &#8216;global&#8217; warming.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the first headline I&#8217;ve seen that says something <em>doesn&#8217;t<\/em> cause global warming.\u00a0 Which means they probably do.\u00a0 Theoretically.\u00a0 Think about it.\u00a0 The wind cools things down, or so it seems.\u00a0 Put up enough of those stupid windmills, and the wind will be dampened and things will heat up.\u00a0 There will be a lot fewer birds, too.\u00a0 Spotted owls, condors, eagles, they&#8217;ll all be getting smacked in the beak by those blades.\u00a0 Plus, they&#8217;re an eyesore.\u00a0 (The windmills, not the birds.)<\/p>\n<p>Everything the left does has adverse consequences they don&#8217;t cop to.\u00a0 They simply wait until people forget it was their idea and go door to door asking people to donate money to their cause so they can lobby against those evil politicians who have blighted our landscapes with windmills.\u00a0 For the time being, the consequences are offset by good intentions, similar to how carbon credits offset global warming.\u00a0 Carbon credits, good intentions, both are equally effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t believe the headlines. Wind farms do not cause &#8216;global&#8217; warming. This is the first headline I&#8217;ve seen that says something doesn&#8217;t cause global warming.\u00a0 Which means they probably do.\u00a0 Theoretically.\u00a0 Think about it.\u00a0 The wind cools things down, or &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=277\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}