{"id":387,"date":"2012-07-21T09:53:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T16:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=387"},"modified":"2012-07-21T09:53:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T16:53:53","slug":"dicing-with-the-climate-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Dicing With The Climate &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/21\/dicing-with-the-climate\/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&amp;seid=auto\">Dicing With The Climate &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0&#8230;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;\">The normal, cautious thing is to say that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no way to attribute any particular event, like a heat wave in the Ukraine, to global warming \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and news media have basically been bullied by this argument into rarely mentioning climate change even when reporting on extreme weather. But Hansen et al make an important point: this argument is much weaker when we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re talking about really extreme events, like temperatures more than 3 standard deviations above historical norms. Such events would almost never happen if there weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a rising trend in global temperatures; so when they become quite common, as they have, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fair to call them evidence of warming&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dicing With The Climate &#8211; NYTimes.com. &#8220;\u00c2\u00a0&#8230;The normal, cautious thing is to say that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no way to attribute any particular event, like a heat wave in the Ukraine, to global warming \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and news media have basically been bullied &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=387\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}