{"id":37870,"date":"2011-08-07T15:45:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T15:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/sometimes-a-graphic-helps-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2011-08-07T15:45:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T15:45:59","slug":"sometimes-a-graphic-helps-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/sometimes-a-graphic-helps-the-intersection.php","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes, A Graphic Helps | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/what-s-conservative-white-men-and-climate-change-denial\">DeSmog post<\/a> that is getting a lot of traction right now, I talk about conservative white males&rsquo; &ldquo;smart idiocy&rdquo; when it comes to thinking they&rsquo;re equipped to overturn modern climate science. Now, I learn that xkcd <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/675\/\">beat me to the punch<\/a> with respect to this particular type of hubris:<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/675\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19996\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e113e_revolutionary.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"194\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>Um, yeah. That says it all. Dudes, I know you want to argue and everything, but Einstein still wins.<\/p><p>And so do the climate scientists.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/LTo2_hon54bTF9xlMlZmOKa4XfA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7c2f4_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/LTo2_hon54bTF9xlMlZmOKa4XfA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7c2f4_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7c2f4_08s7MstznAw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7c2f4_5el6S7u_3DQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my DeSmog post that is getting a lot of traction right now, I talk about conservative white males&rsquo; &ldquo;smart idiocy&rdquo; when it comes to thinking they&rsquo;re equipped to overturn modern climate science. Now, I learn that xkcd beat me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/sometimes-a-graphic-helps-the-intersection.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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37870"}],"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=37870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}