{"id":9697,"date":"2015-03-05T10:49:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T16:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=9697"},"modified":"2015-03-05T10:49:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T16:49:47","slug":"this-is-not-how-science-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/this-is-not-how-science-works\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Not How Science Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Today&#8217;s installment of Obama propaganda:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Friend &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to fighting climate change, the single biggest obstacle we face isn&#8217;t scientific or economic. It&#8217;s political.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, in Congress and across the country, too many of our elected officials still publicly deny the science of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>That needs to change.<\/p>\n<p>Americans across the country are standing up for science &#8212; OFA is building a team right now to take the fight to climate change deniers.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, the effects of climate change are felt in more of our communities &#8212; consider the consequences of extreme weather like historic droughts and record-breaking storms. It jeopardizes the future we&#8217;ll leave for our children.<\/p>\n<p>This shouldn&#8217;t be a controversial opinion.<\/p>\n<p>We need to listen to our friends at NASA and the 97 percent of climate scientists who agree that climate change is real, man-made, and happening right now. Now is the time for serious action, not excuses or outright denial.<\/p>\n<p>But that requires lawmakers all across the country to face the facts and work together to find smart, science-based solutions.<\/p>\n<p>You can help us get a little closer to that goal today &#8212; be part of the OFA team calling out climate change denial:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/my.barackobama.com\/Expose-Climate-Change-Deniers<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for doing your part to make progress possible &#8212; I couldn&#8217;t do any of it without you.<\/p>\n<p>Barack Obama<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s installment of Obama propaganda: Friend &#8212; When it comes to fighting climate change, the single biggest obstacle we face isn&#8217;t scientific or economic. It&#8217;s political. Right now, in Congress and across the country, too many of our elected officials still publicly deny the science of climate change. That needs &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"This Is Not How Science Works - Politickles","description":"Today's installment of Obama propaganda: Friend -- When it comes to fighting climate change, the single biggest obstacle we face isn't scientific or economic. I"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[266,4813,265,12,2297,2296],"class_list":["post-9697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-expose-climate-change-deniers","tag-global-warming","tag-obama","tag-ofa","tag-organizing-for-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}