{"id":3475,"date":"2009-12-22T09:33:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T13:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=3475"},"modified":"2009-12-26T17:36:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-26T21:36:15","slug":"friedman-wishes-for-biblical-storm-national-review-12-22-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/friedman-wishes-for-biblical-storm-national-review-12-22-09","title":{"rendered":"Friedman Wishes for Biblical Storm  (National Review, 12.22.09)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Left thought Pat Robertson was off his rocker? If Rev. Pat thought Gulf hurricanes were God\u2019s punishment for sin, then green zealot Tom Friedman wishes we had more. Friedman in Sunday\u2019s Times:<\/p>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<p>President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva of Brazil told this conference, (the) Earth Day framework only works \u201cif countries take responsibility to meet their targets\u201d and if the rich nations really help the poor ones buy clean power sources.<\/p>\n<p>That was never going to happen at scale in the present global economic climate. The only way it might happen is if we had \u201ca perfect storm\u201d \u2014 a storm big enough to finally end the global warming debate but not so big that it ended the world.<\/p>\n<p>Absent such a storm that literally parts the Red Sea again and drives home to all the doubters that catastrophic climate change is a clear and present danger, the domestic pressures in every country to avoid legally binding and verifiable carbon reductions will remain very powerful.<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Yeesh. Katrina must have been thrilling for Friedman \u2014 though apparently it didn\u2019t drown nearly enough sinners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left thought Pat Robertson was off his rocker? If Rev. Pat thought Gulf hurricanes were God\u2019s punishment for sin, then green zealot Tom Friedman wishes we had more. Friedman in Sunday\u2019s Times: President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva of Brazil told this conference, (the) Earth Day framework only works \u201cif countries take responsibility to meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3476,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions\/3476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}