{"id":2251,"date":"2010-02-24T18:19:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T18:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2010-02-24T18:19:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T18:19:29","slug":"best_news_of_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2251","title":{"rendered":"Best News Of The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a dinner over the weekend , a more-liberal friend asked what I thought we ought to do about climate.<\/p>\n<p>I gave a short version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/008766.html\" target=\"browser\">3% solution argument<\/a>, and then added that we need to take a breath, step back, and redo the last decade of climate science in a calm, fact-based, transparent way so that we had &#8211; at minimum &#8211; a set of temperature data that we could all rely on as a baseline for modeling.<\/p>\n<p>Well, this morning, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2010\/02\/23\/britains-weather-office-proposes-climategate\/\" target=\"browser\">guess what<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>At a meeting Monday of 150 climate scientists, representatives of Britain&#8217;s weather office proposed that the world&#8217;s climatologists start all over again and produce a new trove of global temperature data that is open to public scrutiny and &#8220;rigorous&#8221; peer review.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;what a great idea!!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/projects\/pdf\/022410_metproposal.pdf\" target=\"browser\">the actual wording<\/a> (pdf).<\/p>\n<p>Faster, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news on the climate data front&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}