{"id":2047,"date":"2009-12-07T12:19:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T16:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2047"},"modified":"2009-12-07T12:19:47","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T16:19:47","slug":"a-devils-dictionary-for-copenhagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/12\/07\/a-devils-dictionary-for-copenhagen\/","title":{"rendered":"A <em>Devil&#8217;s Dictionary<\/em> for Copenhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2009-12-06\/exposing-copenhagenrsquos-hot-air\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tunku Varadarajan<\/a> updates Ambrose Bierce for the Copenhagen conference:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong> is for <strong>anthropogenic<\/strong>: (as in anthropogenic global warming, or \u201cAGW\u201d), a $10 word for &#8220;man-made&#8221; which global-warmists wield as proof of expertise &mdash; no one more so than <strong>Al<\/strong> Gore, who, after having invented the Internet, turned his prodigious mind to the conundrum of AGW.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p><strong>C<\/strong> is for the University of East Anglia&#8217;s <strong>Climate Research Unit<\/strong>, the now-discredited source of much of the data used to fuel climate hysteria. In November, in an episode that was oh-so-predictably dubbed <strong>Climategate<\/strong>, a cache of leaked emails showed that researchers systematically hid or manipulated data that was inconsistent with the accepted narrative of man-made climate change. (Read John Tierney&#8217;s clear-headed critique <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/01\/science\/01tier.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.) Don&#8217;t forget <strong>carbon<\/strong> dioxide, a colorless, odorless gas once considered essential to life on earth, not to mention bubbles in Champagne. (Although it&#8217;s now regarded as a poisonous pollutant, you can, however, trade it.) Think also of <strong>consensus<\/strong> &mdash; the idea that science is settled by an asserted poll of experts after all objections from dissenting scientists have been suppressed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunku Varadarajan updates Ambrose Bierce for the Copenhagen conference: A is for anthropogenic: (as in anthropogenic global warming, or \u201cAGW\u201d), a $10 word for &#8220;man-made&#8221; which global-warmists wield as proof of expertise &mdash; no one more so than Al Gore, who, after having invented the Internet, turned his prodigious mind to the conundrum of AGW. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,57,53],"tags":[245,273,240,39],"class_list":["post-2047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-humour","category-politics","tag-climatechange","tag-denmark","tag-globalwarming","tag-junkscience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-x1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2049,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions\/2049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}