{"id":2110,"date":"2012-05-20T09:19:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T09:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2013-08-19T20:40:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T20:40:51","slug":"i-met-a-climatologist-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/index.php\/2012\/05\/i-met-a-climatologist-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"I met a climatologist yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was delighted at the local council display to meet a real dinkum climatologist from NIWA. He lives in our district. I talked to him about the fact that we have a few people who are still not convinced on climate change and asked him what the best websites are for climate skeptics. Here is his answer, with my comments in brackets:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/royalsociety.org\/policy\/publications\/2010\/climate-change-summary-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">http:\/\/royalsociety.org\/<wbr \/>policy\/publications\/2010\/<wbr \/>climate-change-summary-<wbr \/>science\/<\/a>\u00a0(good stuff from the Royal Society)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/series\/skeptics\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/grist.org\/series\/<wbr \/>skeptics\/<\/a>\u00a0(The heading is How to talk to a Climate Skeptic and it gives a very comprehensive list of questions and how to answer them)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/potholer54\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/<wbr \/>potholer54<\/a>\u00a0(this may appeal to you if you have a certain sense of humor)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLA4F0994AFB057BB8\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<wbr \/>playlist?list=<wbr \/>PLA4F0994AFB057BB8<\/a>\u00a0\/Very good<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/<\/a>\u00a0Fine.<\/p>\n<p>And one we talked about which is excellent too http:\/\/skepticalscience.com. That was the one that convinced my son after months of searching and asking questions.<\/p>\n<p>We are a party which bases its policy on evidence. Hope this is useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was delighted at the local council display to meet a real dinkum climatologist from NIWA. He lives in our district. I talked to him about the fact that we have a few people who are still not convinced on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/index.php\/2012\/05\/i-met-a-climatologist-yesterday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[320],"tags":[321,323,322],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3523,"href":"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions\/3523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neweconomics.net.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}