{"id":8906,"date":"2011-03-15T10:42:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T14:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8906"},"modified":"2011-03-15T10:42:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T14:42:47","slug":"in-memoriam-owsley-stanley-1935-2011-king-of-lsd-grateful-dead-soundman-and-global-cooling-alarmist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8906\/in-memoriam-owsley-stanley-1935-2011-king-of-lsd-grateful-dead-soundman-and-global-cooling-alarmist\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Owsley Stanley (1935-2011) &#8211; &#8220;King of LSD,&#8221; Grateful Dead Soundman and&#8230; Global Cooling Alarmist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Owsley Stanley, the famed 1960s &#8220;King of LSD&#8221; who helped pioneer the Grateful Dead&#8217;s trademark sound, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/2011\/03\/14\/2011-03-14_lsd_icon_owsley_bear_stanley_dead_at_76_killed_in_car_accident_in_australia.html\" target=\"_blank\">has died<\/a> following an auto accident in his adopted home country of Australia. So what led him to abandon America and flee to Australia, anyway?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually instructive regarding our current political climate.\u00a0 Apparently, he became convinced during the 1970s that global cooling was about to trigger a new ice age, so he relocated to the southern hemisphere, which he considered less subject to that supposed oncoming disaster.\u00a0 Mr. Stanley, of course, wasn&#8217;t alone in the global cooling hysteria.\u00a0 Among others, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denisdutton.com\/cooling_world.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Newsweek<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/node\/11640\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a> repeatedly sounded the alarm, and continuing climate alarmist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=121447\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Ehrlich<\/a> predicted massive crop failures and starvation.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, Owsley Stanley.\u00a0 And thank you for the sobering lesson of the ephemeral nature of climate change alarmism amid the current fashion of global warming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owsley Stanley, the famed 1960s &#8220;King of LSD&#8221; who helped pioneer the Grateful Dead&#8217;s trademark sound, has died following an auto accident in his adopted home country of Australia. So what led him to abandon America and flee to Australia, anyway? It&#8217;s actually instructive regarding our current political climate.\u00a0 Apparently, he became convinced during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,196,2483,205,2482,2481,2480],"class_list":["post-8906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-global-cooling","tag-global-warming","tag-grateful-dead","tag-lsd","tag-owsley-stanley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8909,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906\/revisions\/8909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}