{"id":9839,"date":"2013-02-01T06:40:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T14:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9839"},"modified":"2013-02-01T00:55:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T08:55:28","slug":"colbert-now-accepts-science-of-climate-change-but-problem-is-too-big-to-cure-just-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9839","title":{"rendered":"Colbert Now Accepts Science of Climate Change, But &#8216;Problem is Too Big to Cure, Just Give Up&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday&#8217;s <i>Colbert Report<\/i>, Stephen Colbert brilliantly exposed the core of the Rightwing&#8217;s denial of climate science. Once you accept the scientific evidence, he suggests, you might feel compelled for a minute to do something about it, but there are just too many people who are profiting off what we are doing now. Plus, it all sounds very hard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sure, I know America beat Tojo, we crushed Hitler, we put a man on the moon. But incrementally reducing C02 emissions? That sounds like a lot of <i>work<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Colbert has a better idea. Just have another piece of &#8220;cheese cake, crawl in to bed, and wait for death&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:colbertnation.com:423268\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday&#8217;s Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert brilliantly exposed the core of the Rightwing&#8217;s denial of climate science. Once you accept the scientific evidence, he suggests, you might feel compelled for a minute to do something about it, but there are just too many people who are profiting off what we are doing now. Plus, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[543,200,205],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-environment","category-stephen-colbert"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9839"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}