{"id":2758,"date":"2010-04-19T09:40:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T15:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2010-04-19T09:41:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T15:41:09","slug":"a-climate-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2758","title":{"rendered":"A Climate Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spiegel has one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/0,1518,687259,00.html\">fairest<\/a> and most complete analyses of Climategate I&#8217;ve seen out there.  It&#8217;s a long article but worth the read because it details exactly what has happened, what is going on and what the status of the science is.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, I find myself between warring camps.  I think AGW is real and a problem but I&#8217;m concerned about the quality of the science going into it and am extremely skeptical of the proposed solutions. I think much of the climate controversy of the last few months is overblown and over hyped by people who have a religious\/political belief that AGW is a myth.  At the same time, I think AGW supporters are far too glib in dismissing the controversy.<\/p>\n<p>So whenever the subject comes out, I get bashed on one side by &#8220;It&#8217;s a conspiracy&#8221; bad skeptics and bashed on the other by &#8220;you&#8217;re a tool of industry&#8221; believers.  But if I wanted everyone to agree with me, why would I bother with blogging?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spiegel has one of the fairest and most complete analyses of Climategate I&#8217;ve seen out there. It&#8217;s a long article but worth the read because it details exactly what has happened, what is going on and what the status of the science is. As usual, I find myself between warring camps. I think AGW is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2758\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Climate Summary<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-Iu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2760,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions\/2760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}