{"id":167,"date":"2010-06-23T09:39:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T07:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rensecorten.dds.nl\/?p=167"},"modified":"2010-07-08T17:08:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T15:08:59","slug":"whom-to-trust-in-the-climate-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/2010\/06\/whom-to-trust-in-the-climate-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Whom to trust in the climate debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is widely believed that the theory of man-made climate change is still controversial, to a large extent thanks to the media who seem to keep dividing their attention equally between the &#8216;believers&#8217; and the skeptics. This gives the impression that there is a scientific &#8216;debate&#8217; going on. But now it&#8217;s official: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2010\/06\/04\/1003187107\">a study published in PNAS<\/a> claims that 97% of climate scientists are convinced of man-made climate change, and perhaps even more importantly, that those are also better scientists (as far as that is measurable).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I doubt that this will put an end to the &#8216;debate,&#8217; but hopefully it will prompt the media to give us a more balanced view on climate science.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/blog\/2010\/jun\/21\/trust-climate-scientists\">The Guardian<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is widely believed that the theory of man-made climate change is still controversial, to a large extent thanks to the media who seem to keep dividing their attention equally between the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"http:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}