{"id":7843,"date":"2017-01-31T08:03:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T14:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7843"},"modified":"2017-01-31T08:03:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T14:03:39","slug":"oh-thats-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/01\/31\/oh-thats-interesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, That&#8217;s Interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I shouldn&#8217;t have been surprised. From Roger Pielke, Jr.&#8217;s 2010 book <em><strong>The Climate Fix<\/strong><\/em>, Chapter 7 (<em>Disasters, Death, and Destruction<\/em>), p 174:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Consider that presidents declare 50 percent more flood disasters in years in which they are running for reelection than in other years. There is obviously a signal there. It&#8217;s just not a climate signal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indicative of the difficulties in analyzing proxies of climate data &#8211; sometimes politics intrudes. I wonder if Obama did the same thing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I shouldn&#8217;t have been surprised. From Roger Pielke, Jr.&#8217;s 2010 book The Climate Fix, Chapter 7 (Disasters, Death, and Destruction), p 174: Consider that presidents declare 50 percent more flood disasters in years in which they are running for reelection than in other years. There is obviously a signal \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/01\/31\/oh-thats-interesting\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7845,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843\/revisions\/7845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}