{"id":523,"date":"2011-10-04T04:32:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T08:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=523"},"modified":"2011-10-04T04:47:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T08:47:56","slug":"organized-climate-change-denial-%e2%80%9cplayed-a-crucial-role-in-blocking-domestic-legislation%e2%80%9d-top-scholars-conclude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/organized-climate-change-denial-%e2%80%9cplayed-a-crucial-role-in-blocking-domestic-legislation%e2%80%9d-top-scholars-conclude\/","title":{"rendered":"Organized Climate Change Denial \u201cPlayed a Crucial Role in Blocking Domestic Legislation,\u201d Top Scholars Conclude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/romm\/2011\/10\/03\/335022\/organized-climate-change-denial\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Denial-Machine1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"402\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some try to downplay the central role of the denial machine in U.S. politics, but the fact is that what the deniers have accomplished in this country is unique in the world, going far beyond the spread of disinformation.\u00a0 They have allowed fossil fuel interests to \u201ccapture\u201d almost an entire political party \u2014 at least these in national office (see National Journal:\u00a0 \u201cThe GOP is stampeding toward an absolutist rejection of climate science that appears unmatched among major political parties around the globe, even conservative ones\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>In this country, the power of the Denier Industrial Complex is magnified by the absurd extra-constitutional, super majority \u201crequirement\u201d for 60 votes in the Senate.\u00a0 As long as the machine operates and Republicans in office lack the guts to challenge it, the chances of serious climate action remains severely limited.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the conclusion of this important article:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/romm\/2011\/10\/03\/335022\/organized-climate-change-denial\/\">Organized Climate Change Denial \u201cPlayed a Crucial Role in Blocking Domestic Legislation,\u201d Top Scholars Conclude | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Some try to downplay the central role of the denial machine in U.S. politics, but the fact is that what the deniers have accomplished in this country is unique in the world, going far beyond the spread of disinformation.\u00a0 They have allowed fossil fuel interests to \u201ccapture\u201d almost an entire political party \u2014&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,257,22],"tags":[315,258,314,316,26,300],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}