{"id":5979,"date":"2010-10-21T09:50:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T13:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5979"},"modified":"2010-10-21T09:50:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T13:50:36","slug":"biodiversity-the-new-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/10\/21\/biodiversity-the-new-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Biodiversity the new &#8220;climate change&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/jamesdelingpole\/100060132\/biodiversity-the-new-big-lie\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Delingpole<\/a> points to the successor to global warming\/climate change as the cause of the decade:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>And so it begins. With all the shamelessness of a Goldman Sachser trading in his middle-aged wife for a hot, pouting twentysomething called Ivanka, the green movement is ditching \u201cClimate Change\u201d. The newer, younger, sexier model\u2019s name? Biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p>When I say shameless, I\u2019m talking so amoral it makes the Whore of Babylon look like Mother Theresa; so flagrant it makes Al Gore\u2019s, ahem, alleged drunken \u201cLove poodle\u201d assault on the Portland Masseuse look like an especially delicate passage from Andreas Capellanus\u2019s <em>The Art of Courtly Love<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly it becomes clear why they kept Pachauri on at the IPCC. Because the IPCC simply doesn\u2019t matter any more. Sure it will go on, churning out Assessment Report after Assessment Report, bringing pots of money to the usual gang of bent scientists prepared to act as lead authors. But the world\u2019s mainstream media &mdash; especially all those environment correspondents who so lovingly transcribe the press releases of Greenpeace and the WWF as if they were holy writ &mdash; will have moved on, according to the dictates of the United Nations Environment Programme\u2019s (UNEP) fashionable <em>crise du jour<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever mind \u2018Climate Change\u2019,\u201d they\u2019ll say to themselves. \u201cOur readers and viewers aren\u2019t really so into that now all the winters seem to have got so very cold. Biodiversity, that\u2019s the thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Delingpole points to the successor to global warming\/climate change as the cause of the decade: And so it begins. With all the shamelessness of a Goldman Sachser trading in his middle-aged wife for a hot, pouting twentysomething called Ivanka, the green movement is ditching \u201cClimate Change\u201d. The newer, younger, sexier model\u2019s name? Biodiversity. When [&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":[65,28,53],"tags":[635,245,240,39],"class_list":["post-5979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-media","category-politics","tag-biodiversity","tag-climatechange","tag-globalwarming","tag-junkscience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1yr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979","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=5979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5981,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions\/5981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}