{"id":442,"date":"2007-08-24T18:07:14","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T00:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=442"},"modified":"2007-08-24T18:07:14","modified_gmt":"2007-08-25T00:07:14","slug":"greenland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=442","title":{"rendered":"Greenland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Michaels <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/pub_display.php?pub_id=8630\">deflates<\/a> our Senators on Greenland:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On page 820 of [the IPCC]&#8217;s spanking-new compendium on climate change, it projects that the melting of Greenland will cause a rise in sea levels of between half an inch and 4.5 inches by 2100. If there were any acceleration of ice loss under a Gore-like scenario, the IPCC says there could be an additional sea-level rise of 8 inches.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would also add that if these senators really believed in catastrophic global warming, they would not be burning up tons of fossil fuels on a damn junket.<\/p>\n<p>This is the problem with the global warming supporters &#8212; their stampede to embrace disaster scenarios. Christ, isn&#8217;t a potential 8 inch rise in sea levels enough? Why do they always have to get so hysterical?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Michaels deflates our Senators on Greenland: On page 820 of [the IPCC]&#8217;s spanking-new compendium on climate change, it projects that the melting of Greenland will cause a rise in sea levels of between half an inch and 4.5 inches by 2100. If there were any acceleration of ice loss under a Gore-like scenario, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=442\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Greenland<\/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":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-78","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","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=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}