{"id":1561,"date":"2017-06-08T18:29:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T01:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2017-06-08T18:29:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T01:29:41","slug":"climate-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/06\/08\/climate-denial\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Denier&#8217;s Materials Package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tIn a heartbreaking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/answer-sheet\/wp\/2017\/06\/08\/senators-accuse-devos-of-quick-about-face-on-climate-change\/?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-national%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&#038;utm_term=.36a7015a704c\">article in the Washington Post <\/a>about Secretary DeVos&#8217; stand on climate change, the author, Valerie Strauss, adds a letter written by Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island Democratic Senator where the Senator writes of the efforts of the Heartland Institute, a climate denial &#8220;think tank&#8221; to promote a climate denial information packet sent to science teachers in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a copy of Senator Whitehouse&#8217;s letter: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Heartland-Letter-NSTA.pdf\">Heartland Letter &#8211; NSTA<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The letter is only three pages and is worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a heartbreaking article in the Washington Post about Secretary DeVos&#8217; stand on climate change, the author, Valerie Strauss, adds a letter written by Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island Democratic Senator where the Senator writes of the efforts of the Heartland Institute, a climate denial &#8220;think tank&#8221; to promote a climate denial information packet sent to &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/06\/08\/climate-denial\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15,17,19],"tags":[427,535,592,821,1266],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-1561","7":"format-standard","8":"category-politics","9":"category-science","10":"category-thinking-about","11":"category-trump","12":"post_tag-climate-change","13":"post_tag-department-of-education","14":"post_tag-education","15":"post_tag-heartland-institute","16":"post_tag-paris-climate-agreement"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}