{"id":6868,"date":"2011-06-30T21:24:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T03:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=6868"},"modified":"2011-06-30T21:35:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T03:35:47","slug":"think-progress-as-oklahoma-swelters-under-record-heat-and-drought-inhofe-bails-on-heartland-denier-conference-%e2%80%98i-am-under-the-weather%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=6868","title":{"rendered":"Think Progress | As Oklahoma Swelters Under Record Heat and Drought, Inhofe Bails on Heartland Denier Conference: \u2018I am Under the Weather\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/romm\/2011\/06\/30\/258263\/inhofe-heartland-denier-conference-oklahoma-record-heat-wave-and-drought\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Oklahoma-heat-wave.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may recall last year that Senator Inhofe\u2019s grandchildren built an igloo to mock a killer snow storm, calling it \u2018Al Gore\u2019s New Home\u2019.  Of course, extreme precipitation is precisely what we expect from human-caused global warming, but the story still got a lot of play in the media.What\u2019s more ironic is that the Senate\u2019s leading climate denier bailed on the annual Heartland climate science denial conference this morning \u2014 saying \u201cI am under the weather\u201d ! \u2014 just as his home state is being slammed by a record-smashing heatwave and a drought more severe than the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article at Think Progress:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/romm\/2011\/06\/30\/258263\/inhofe-heartland-denier-conference-oklahoma-record-heat-wave-and-drought\/\">As Oklahoma Swelters Under Record Heat and Drought, Inhofe Bails on Heartland Denier Conference: \u2018I am Under the Weather\u2019<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; You may recall last year that Senator Inhofe\u2019s grandchildren built an igloo to mock a killer snow storm, calling it \u2018Al Gore\u2019s New Home\u2019. Of course, extreme precipitation is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":6869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[213,361,362,364],"class_list":["post-6868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-change-deniers","tag-heartland-institute","tag-inhofe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6868"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6876,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868\/revisions\/6876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}