{"id":2445476,"date":"2019-06-18T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/memo-to-aspen-times-columnist-global-warming-applies-to-entire-earth\/"},"modified":"2019-06-19T07:23:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T13:23:49","slug":"memo-to-aspen-times-columnist-global-warming-applies-to-entire-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/memo-to-aspen-times-columnist-global-warming-applies-to-entire-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Memo to Aspen Times columnist: Global warming applies to entire earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It\u2019s a testament to my open-mindedness that I read Glenn Beaton\u2019s column. I find it amusing, especially the one a while back where he confessed to experimenting with Marxism in college to impress the chicks. I\u2019ve seen your mug, Glenn. Feigning Marxist ideology isn\u2019t gonna help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Beaton came up with a real corker Sunday when he claimed climate change, although real, was only a minor problem exaggerated by the climate geeks (<a id=\"N0x25a42c0N0x25aaa00:N0x25a42c0N0x251e1d0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/glenn-k-beaton-aspens-warnin-warminites-are-chillin\/\">\u201cAspen\u2019s warnin\u2019 warminites are chillin\u2019\u201d<\/a>). This year\u2019s cold and snowy winter proves that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Try to remember, Glenn, global warming means global. I realize that\u2019s probably difficult for a nationalist like you, but the polar vortex that put the Midwest in the deep freeze this winter happened because a high-pressure zone situated over the North Pole and pushed a cold front south.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">And, yes, the polar ice cap is still melting. At the end of May, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reports the ice extent on the North Pole was at the second lowest level ever recorded. In the southern hemisphere, Australia experienced its hottest summer on record with flooding, bush fires and heat waves, according to The Conversation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Beaton accuses the sky-is-falling types of marketing. What\u2019re we marketing? Where\u2019s the profit motive? We all know the answer to those questions as they apply to Big Oil, which knew of the detrimental climate effects of fossil fuels in the \u201970s and kept it a secret, and its political advocates, who reap the bounty of Big Oil\u2019s campaign donations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The climate cause has gone mostly quiet now after this past, harsh winter, Beaton says. Wrong, Glenn. We\u2019re not going quiet and we\u2019re not going away until something is done. Have you heard of the Green New Deal?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Fred Malo Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Carbondale<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/memo-to-aspen-times-columnist-global-warming-applies-to-entire-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a testament to my open-mindedness that I read Glenn Beaton\u2019s column. I find it amusing, especially the one a while back where he confessed to experimenting with Marxism in college to impress the chicks. I\u2019ve seen your mug, Glenn. Feigning Marxist ideology isn\u2019t gonna help. Beaton came up with a real corker Sunday when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 21:41:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445490,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445476\/revisions\/2445490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}