{"id":2212,"date":"2009-11-19T19:38:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T00:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2009-11-19T20:21:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T01:21:41","slug":"the-day-the-climate-stood-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2212\/the-day-the-climate-stood-still\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day the Climate Stood Still"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apologies for the misleading headline.\u00a0 According to recent reports by climatologists, it\u2019s actually been several years<\/em> since the globe we call Earth ceased warming.\u00a0 Although many global warming alarmists are at a loss to explain how a supposedly constant increase in global temperature could stop without warning<\/a> (and just before a conference to fund its decrease), that doesn\u2019t mean the cause for the sudden cessation is unknown.\u00a0 In fact, the real head scratcher here is how the mainstream media missed the obvious reason for winning the war on climate change.<\/p>\n

Since at least 1970, Ed Begley, Jr. has waged a one man war for the environment<\/a>.\u00a0 That year he bought his first electric car and celebrated the first Earth Day.\u00a0 As detailed in an interview with the New York Times Magazine<\/em>, Begley is SERIOUS about his eco-responsibilities.\u00a0 He cooks food in a solar oven that \u201csits in the yard and gets up to about 375 degrees on a sunny day.\u201d\u00a0 When he dies he wants to put his 205 pounds of organic matter to good use.\u00a0 \u201cI want to be buried with a cardboard box and a sheet and put in the earth.\u201d\u00a0 After all, we come from the earth, and return to the earth, right?<\/p>\n

But life for an eco-warrior and global warming stopper isn\u2019t just about capping your cooking temperatures and trading in your coffin.\u00a0 There are hassles too.\u00a0 According to Begley, the worst thing about being green is \u201cwhen you don\u2019t have a recycling bin nearby and you have to carry garbage around in your car to get it home.\u201d\u00a0 That would be the two bedroom, one and a half bath home he shares with his wife and daughter.\u00a0 It\u2019s also the one he\u2019s plowed steady sums of money into adding a bevy of cutting-edge technologies<\/a> to reduce his carbon footprint.<\/p>\n

So while the climatologists scramble to fix their computer models and the diplomats try to convince each other that spending for a warmer day is still needed (if not necessary), remember the man who through eco-mortification and carbon penance became the green hued saint that saved the planet.\u00a0 (Until it starts warming again…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apologies for the misleading headline.\u00a0 According to recent reports by climatologists, it\u2019s actually been several years since the globe we call Earth ceased warming.\u00a0 Although many global warming alarmists are at a loss to explain how a supposedly constant increase in global temperature could stop without warning (and just before a conference to fund its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,523,522,524,205],"class_list":["post-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-climate-change","tag-earth-day","tag-ed-begley-jr","tag-electric-car","tag-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2221,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions\/2221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}