{"id":617,"date":"2011-10-07T04:39:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T08:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=617"},"modified":"2011-10-07T04:39:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T08:39:54","slug":"eight-must-have-charts-summarize-the-evidence-for-a-%e2%80%9chuman-fingerprint%e2%80%9d-on-recent-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/eight-must-have-charts-summarize-the-evidence-for-a-%e2%80%9chuman-fingerprint%e2%80%9d-on-recent-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Must-Have Charts Summarize the Evidence for a \u201cHuman Fingerprint\u201d on Recent Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/romm\/2011\/10\/06\/338286\/charts-evidence-human-fingerprint-on-recent-climate-change\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/fingerprint11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last year, physicist John Cook, who runs the must-read website Skeptical Science, published \u201cThe Scientific Guide to Global Warming Skepticism.\u201d It\u2019s a good introduction to global warming science and skepticism.<\/p>\n<p>He sent me the 8 figures of the \u201chuman fingerprints on climate change,\u201d which I repost below.<\/p>\n<p>The clever deniers these days don\u2019t deny the painfully obvious reality that the planet is warming or that climate is changing \u2014 they simply deny that humans are a major cause.<\/p>\n<p>But in fact there is an overabundance of evidence that humans are warming the planet and changing the climate, so much so that the U.S. National Academy of Sciences labels as \u201csettled facts\u201d that \u201cthe Earth system is warming and that much of this warming is very likely due to human activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here are key fingerprint figures:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/romm\/2011\/10\/06\/338286\/charts-evidence-human-fingerprint-on-recent-climate-change\/\">Eight Must-Have Charts Summarize the Evidence for a \u201cHuman Fingerprint\u201d on Recent Climate Change | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Last year, physicist John Cook, who runs the must-read website Skeptical Science, published \u201cThe Scientific Guide to Global Warming Skepticism.\u201d It\u2019s a good introduction to global warming science and skepticism. He sent me the 8 figures of the \u201chuman fingerprints on climate change,\u201d which I repost below. The clever deniers these days don\u2019t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[111,257,22,18],"tags":[370,258,368,292,369,371],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"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=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}