{"id":27267,"date":"2011-10-25T12:36:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T16:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=27267"},"modified":"2011-10-25T12:36:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T16:36:23","slug":"this-week-in-climate-change-denial-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/10\/25\/this-week-in-climate-change-denial-6\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Climate Change Denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bad, Badder, BEST\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tciQts-8Cxo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Berkeley physicist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2011\/11\/richard-muller\/8682\/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Muller<\/a>, until last week was the darling of the denialist community. However, after conducting his own study, funded in part by the Koch brothers, he recanted his skepticism and acknowledged that global warming is a scientifically proven fact. Needless to say, the right now angrily shuns him.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Economist <\/em>has a full report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21533360\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berkeley physicist, Richard Muller, until last week was the darling of the denialist community. However, after conducting his own study, funded in part by the Koch brothers, he recanted his skepticism and acknowledged that global warming is a scientifically proven fact. Needless to say, the right now angrily shuns him. 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