{"id":147,"date":"2008-12-10T18:06:29","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T00:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2008-12-10T18:06:29","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T00:06:29","slug":"bolts-sense-drowned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/bolts-sense-drowned\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolts Sense Drowned*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know Bolt doesn&#8217;t like to let facts or reason get in the way of his daily diatribes &#8212; and as a general rule, I leave most of his nonsense alone. But <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.news.com.au\/heraldsun\/andrewbolt\/index.php\/heraldsun\/comments\/sense_drowned\">this bizarre referral<\/a> to the below graph as evidence that we &#8212; silly global warming alarmists &#8212; shouldn&#8217;t worry about rising sea levels because they haven&#8217;t risen in the past couple of years, is a gem.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think when you look at the below graph? Would you feel confident in saying that we shouldn&#8217;t worry about sea levels rising anymore because they don&#8217;t appear to have risen in the past couple of years?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/sl_noib_global_sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-150\" title=\"Sea Level Change Graph\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/sl_noib_global_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/sl_noib_global_sm.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/sl_noib_global_sm-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s really grasping at straws.\u00a0Only a true denialist could get any sort of consolation out of this graph.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a discussion of this graph going on over <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/deltoid\/2008\/12\/how_would_you_describe_this_gr.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>* Then again, there&#8217;s no evidence &#8212; scientific or otherwise &#8212; that it ever existed.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know Bolt doesn&#8217;t like to let facts or reason get in the way of his daily diatribes &#8212; and as a general rule, I leave most of his nonsense alone. But this bizarre referral to the below graph as evidence that we &#8212; silly global warming alarmists &#8212; shouldn&#8217;t worry about rising sea levels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[69,86,85,87,88],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-andrew-bolt","tag-climate-alarmists","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-sea-levels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}