{"id":1098,"date":"2013-10-01T21:31:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T21:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2013-10-01T21:56:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T21:56:41","slug":"response-to-defra-ministers-comments-on-the-ipcc-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/response-to-defra-ministers-comments-on-the-ipcc-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to Defra minister&#8217;s comments on the IPCC report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 Oct. 13 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/climate-change-people-get-very-emotional-about-the-subject-its-not-all-bad-owen-paterson-accused-of-being-irresponsible-after-he-plays-down-the-dangers-of-global-warming-8849496.html\">The Independent ask for views on Owen Paterson&#8217;s interpretation of the IPCC&#8217;s summary<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Owen Paterson is a UK cabinet minister and the Secretary of State for\u00a0Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). Following a meeting at the Conservative Party conference in 2013, The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2013\/sep\/30\/owen-paterson-minister-climate-change-advantages\">Guardian quoted his comments on the IPCC scientific summary<\/a>\u00a0which attracted a range of responses published in The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/climate-change-people-get-very-emotional-about-the-subject-its-not-all-bad-owen-paterson-accused-of-being-irresponsible-after-he-plays-down-the-dangers-of-global-warming-8849496.html\">Independent<\/a> the following day<\/p>\n<p>My response to the ministers distortion of the IPCC report is also picked up in <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/manchesterclimatemonthly.net\/2013\/10\/01\/manchester-climate-scientist-kevin-anderson-on-tory-politician-his-views-colonial-arrogant\/\">Manchester Climate Monthly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Oct. 13 The Independent ask for views on Owen Paterson&#8217;s interpretation of the IPCC&#8217;s summary Owen Paterson is a UK cabinet minister and the Secretary of State for\u00a0Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). Following a meeting at the Conservative Party conference in 2013, The Guardian quoted his comments on the IPCC scientific summary\u00a0which attracted a range of responses published in The Independent the following day My response to the ministers distortion of the IPCC report is also picked up in Manchester Climate Monthly. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":5}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}