{"id":19917,"date":"2015-03-20T11:27:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T15:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19917"},"modified":"2015-03-20T14:55:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T18:55:52","slug":"the-only-place-it-was-cold-this-winter-was-the-east-coast-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/03\/20\/the-only-place-it-was-cold-this-winter-was-the-east-coast-of-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"The Only Place It Was Cold This Winter Was The East Coast Of The United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Think Progress<\/em> has the article <a title=\"Think Progress article\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2015\/03\/18\/3635560\/noaa-hottest-winter\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Only Place It Was Cold This Winter Was The East Coast Of The United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Globally, this has been the hottest winter on record, topping the previous record (2007) by 0.05\u00b0F.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article has a nice picture from the NOAA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2015\/03\/18\/3635560\/noaa-hottest-winter\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/sotc\/service\/global\/map-percentile-mntp\/201412-201502.gif\" alt=\"NOAA plot of the global temperature deviations from normal\" width=\"90%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now we know that being able to bring a snowball into the chambers of Congress in Washington, D.C. is not a refutation of the idea of global warming. Perhaps some Congress people have a very distorted idea of what the globe is. <\/p>\n<p>See the <em>Addicting Info<\/em> article <a title=\"Addicting Info article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addictinginfo.org\/2015\/03\/08\/senator-who-brought-snowball-to-congress-disproves-global-warming-using-trusty-bible\/\" target=\"_blank\">Senator Who Brought Snowball To Congress \u2018Disproves\u2019 Global Warming Using Trusty Bible<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, recently delivered unto the world comedy gold when he brought a snowball to Congress in a hilarious and failed effort to, using said frosty orb, prove global warming is a lie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, you read that right &#8211; chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Cedric Flower for <a title=\"Cedric Flower's post\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cedric.flower\/posts\/10203884838381834\" target=\"_blank\">posting the <em>Think Progress<\/em> article on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think Progress has the article The Only Place It Was Cold This Winter Was The East Coast Of The United States. Globally, this has been the hottest winter on record, topping the previous record (2007) by 0.05\u00b0F. The article has a nice picture from the NOAA. Now we know that being able to bring a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19917"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19928,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19917\/revisions\/19928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}