{"id":20622,"date":"2014-01-08T18:06:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T18:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?p=317288"},"modified":"2014-01-08T18:06:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T18:06:08","slug":"colbert-calls-out-climate-deniers-as-polar-vortex-hits-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/colbert-calls-out-climate-deniers-as-polar-vortex-hits-north-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Colbert Calls Out Climate Deniers as Polar Vortex Hits North America"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/colbert-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"colbert\"><\/p>\n<p>Last night on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/full-episodes\/tue-january-7-2014-john-seigenthaler\" target=\"_blank\">Comedy Central&#8217;s&nbsp;<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/full-episodes\/tue-january-7-2014-john-seigenthaler\" target=\"_blank\">The Colbert Report<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>Stephen Colbert called out climate deniers Donald Trump and Fox News for mocking global warming&nbsp;on account of the &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/01\/07\/polar-vortex-does-not-disprove-global-warming\/\" target=\"_blank\">polar vortex<\/a>&rsquo;&nbsp;currently hitting North America.&nbsp;Colbert points out that the&nbsp;<em>Fox &amp; Friends<\/em> report uses an unsourced photo to target <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/author\/agore\/\" target=\"_blank\">Al Gore<\/a>&#8216;s 2006 book, <em>An Inconvenient Truth,&nbsp;<\/em>selling for $1 as a way to dismiss <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/category\/climate-change-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">climate change<\/a> science.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><strong>Visit EcoWatch&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/p\/air\/climate-change-air\/\" target=\"_blank\">CLIMATE CHANGE<\/a>&nbsp;page for more related news on this topic.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2013\/12\/25\/good-news-christmas-day-arctic-30\/topnewsbanner12-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-316356\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"topnewsbanner12\" src=\"http:\/\/files.cdn.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/topnewsbanner121.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"120\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,57],"tags":[754,12199,2906],"class_list":["post-20622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","category-leed-news","tag-climate-change","tag-featured-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}