{"id":31924,"date":"2011-02-27T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/trapping-the-skeptics\/"},"modified":"2011-02-27T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T16:43:00","slug":"trapping-the-skeptics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/trapping-the-skeptics.php","title":{"rendered":"Trapping the Skeptics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Hertsgaard is the author of the new book\u00a0 &#8220;Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He cornered [James] Inhofe near a bank of members-only elevators at the Dirksen Senate Office Building to ask how he could remain the Senate&#8217;s most adamant climate change denier when every noted scientific organization agrees the planet and its inhabitants are destined for a world of hurt unless heat-trapping gases are tamed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, are you kidding?&#8221; he told SolveClimate News when asked if it was worth it to wait 85 minutes in a windowless Dirksen hallway until Inhofe emerged from a fourth-floor committee hearing room. &#8220;For my daughter&#8217;s sake I want to know why he thinks he can do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hot,&#8221; the most recent of his six environmental tomes, is dedicated to his 5-year-old daughter Chiara. She has inspired the 54-year-old&#8217;s fatherly concern toward what he calls Generation Hot, the two billion youngsters worldwide now forced to cope with climate disruption. . . . . Tuesday&#8217;s event to confront &#8220;climate cranks&#8221; \u2014 coordinated by partners including the Sierra Club, 350.org, the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and The Nation \u2014 offered a lesson to budding activists on staking out politicians and a chance for Hertsgaard to vent.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the day, the energetic author was trailed by four young local organizers, a couple of communications specialists and three videographers.\u00a0 &#8220;I think he knows his lines,&#8221; Hertsgaard said about trying to push the envelope with Inhofe. &#8220;He should. He&#8217;s been saying the same thing for 20 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Frustration with Media Coverage<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, he confronted Inhofe on each of his points about the science being &#8220;mixed,&#8221; the dire impact of carbon controls on the economy and what little difference EPA action will have on global emissions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s important to say, &#8216;No senator, the science is not mixed.&#8217; But a lot of mainstream reporters don\u2019t argue back,&#8221; Hertsgaard said in an interview, adding that a sense of false balance can be attributed to a Washington press corps not familiar with environmental issues. &#8220;But virtually every science organization tells us climate change is real and very dangerous. It&#8217;s a matter of demonstrable science not opinion. To pretend otherwise borders on journalistic malpractice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read More at Solve Climate<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Hertsgaard is the author of the new book\u00a0 &#8220;Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years.&#8221; He cornered [James] Inhofe near a bank of members-only elevators at the Dirksen Senate Office Building to ask how he could remain the Senate&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/trapping-the-skeptics.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}