{"id":5292,"date":"2016-08-16T11:46:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T03:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/16\/physicist-explaining-climate-change-to-a-skeptic-on-tv-is-grim-viewing\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T11:46:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T03:46:58","slug":"physicist-explaining-climate-change-to-a-skeptic-on-tv-is-grim-viewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/16\/physicist-explaining-climate-change-to-a-skeptic-on-tv-is-grim-viewing\/","title":{"rendered":"Physicist explaining climate change to a skeptic on TV is grim viewing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f179484%2fde2edbff37314ab5bfb9102d74f9685c\"<\/p>\n

\"Feed-tw\"<\/a>\"Feed-fb\"<\/a><\/div>\n

It was like watching an internet forum argument, but on national television \u2014 as one tweeter put it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

British physicist Professor Brian Cox tried his best to explain human-induced climate change to avowed skeptic Malcolm Roberts, a newly-appointed senator of the far-right One Nation party in Australia.<\/p>\n

\n

SEE ALSO: Earth’s hottest month on record was July 2016: NASA<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The duo went head-to-head on TV program Q&A<\/em> on Monday night, where Roberts claimed that there has been a pause in global warming for two decades.<\/p>\n

“We’ve had a pause in this so-called warming for now 21 years, depends how you measure it, 21 years,” Roberts claimed. That’s when Cox pulled out the The Global-Land Ocean Temperature Index<\/a>, a graph to illustrate how wrong that claim was. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

More about Q A<\/a>, One Nation<\/a>, Climate Change<\/a>, Brian Cox<\/a>, and Australia<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was like watching an internet forum argument, but on national television \u2014 as one tweeter put it. British physicist Professor Brian Cox tried his best to explain human-induced climate change to avowed skeptic Malcolm Roberts, a newly-appointed senator of … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}