{"id":2888,"date":"2012-01-11T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/01\/hooray-for-global-warming.html"},"modified":"2012-01-11T15:31:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T15:31:00","slug":"hooray-for-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/01\/hooray-for-global-warming.html","title":{"rendered":"Hooray for Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Or climate change, or climate disruption, or whatever else they are calling it.\u00a0 All along I wondered why we automatically assumed the world getting warmer was a bad thing.\u00a0 I know, melting glaciers and stranded polar bears.\u00a0 But still, time and again our old history books pointed to warming trends as moments when humans were able to grow more food and cultivate more land for livestock and agriculture.\u00a0 Still, the really smart people in lab coats insisted that the very presence of humans and cow flatulence was hurdling us toward a global disaster of biblical proportions.\u00a0 Except, apparently, when Global Warming<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/climate-change-blocked-next-ice-age-080000404.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> is actually saving us<\/a>.\u00a0 So there you go.\u00a0 Everything that happens proves Global Warming, and Global Warming causes everything to happen.\u00a0 How can sane men ever argue?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or climate change, or climate disruption, or whatever else they are calling it.\u00a0 All along I wondered why we automatically assumed the world getting warmer was a bad thing.\u00a0 I know, melting glaciers and stranded polar bears.\u00a0 But still, time and again our old history books pointed to warming trends as moments when humans were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hooray for Global Warming<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Or climate change, or climate disruption, or whatever else they are calling it.&nbsp; 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