{"id":2664,"date":"2009-04-21T12:11:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T17:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=2664"},"modified":"2009-04-21T11:32:27","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T16:32:27","slug":"john-boehner-on-global-warming-cow-farts-carcinogen-and-a-pained-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=2664","title":{"rendered":"John Boehner on Global Warming: Cow Farts, Carcinogen, and a Pained Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]Watching John Boehner demonstrate his ignorance when asked about global warming on This Week with George Stephanopoulos was surprisingly painful:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/clJ7QzPKkbs&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/clJ7QzPKkbs&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/climate-change\/cow-emissions-more-damaging-to-planet-than-cosub2sub-from-cars-427843.html\">The huge amount of waste gasses from livestock<\/a> do in fact contribute to global warming significantly; and of course it is silly to call carbon dioxide a carcinogen &#8211; but that&#8217;s very different from calling it a potentially dangerous greenhouse case in significant quantities. The fact that Boehner doesn&#8217;t even know the basic terms of this debate is disturbing if telling &#8211; as the only way to explain his rejectionist position is a combination of ignorance and greed for fundraising dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]Watching John Boehner demonstrate his ignorance when asked about global warming on This Week with George Stephanopoulos was surprisingly painful: The huge amount of waste gasses from livestock do in fact contribute to global warming significantly; and of course it is silly to call carbon dioxide a carcinogen &#8211; but that&#8217;s very different from calling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[458,44],"tags":[164,689,1370,1261],"class_list":["post-2664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-opinionsphere","category-videos","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-john-boehner","tag-this-week-with-george-stephanopoulos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-GY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2666,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions\/2666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}