{"id":4998,"date":"2009-12-07T20:42:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T03:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=4998"},"modified":"2009-12-07T21:02:17","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T04:02:17","slug":"the-infamous-hockey-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=4998","title":{"rendered":"The infamous Hockey Stick&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;deiced&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;back in grade school, I stumbled on a passage which was the very first in any book of any kind in which I realized that the authors could let their political preconceptions alter their interpretation of their subject.\u00c2\u00a0 What they wrote, as I recall it very inexactly 40 years later, was to the effect that western civilization had progressed in a grand upward sweep since the time of the ancient Greeks, pausing only in the years 1952-1960 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which of course the Eisenhower administration&#8230;.I had previously believed that if something was written in a book, it was authoritatively true. This little gem was so blatantly silly that you couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t possibly take it seriously. Books weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Truth, after all.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a defining moment in my intellectual life, something like learning the truth about Santa Claus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foresight.org\/nanodot\/?p=3553\">http:\/\/www.foresight.org\/nanodot\/?p=3553<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A look at the real temperatures over the last couple of thousand years.\u00c2\u00a0 It ain&#8217;t so warm as they say&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Please note that the category here is POLITICS not SCIENCE.\u00c2\u00a0 The &gt;&gt;science&lt;&lt; seems to conflict with the politically correctness.\u00c2\u00a0 Which one will YOU base the future of the planet on?<\/p>\n<p>~Curtis in Idaho! {!-{&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;deiced&#8230; &#8220;&#8230;back in grade school, I stumbled on a passage which was the very first in any book of any kind in which I realized that the authors could let their political preconceptions alter their interpretation of their subject.\u00c2\u00a0 What they wrote, as I recall it very inexactly 40 years later, was to the effect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4998"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5003,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions\/5003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}