{"id":18,"date":"2008-09-15T11:33:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T18:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2008\/09\/15\/clear-as-mud\/"},"modified":"2008-09-15T11:33:42","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T18:33:42","slug":"clear-as-mud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2008\/09\/15\/clear-as-mud\/","title":{"rendered":"Clear as Mud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed the explanation that VP candidate Sarah Palin offered to ABC&#8217;s Charlie Gibson regarding her stand on anthropogenic climate change, this <a title=\"Palin-Gibson\" href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2008\/ABC_Palin_lied_about_global_warming_0912.html\">discussion and video clip<\/a> at rawstory.com may be clarifying&#8211;or not. The governor may not literally be able to see Russia from her house, as her Tina Fey doppelganger suggested on <a title=\"SNL Fey as Palin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/Saturday_Night_Live\/video\/clips\/palin-hillary-open\/656281\/\">Saturday Night Live<\/a> but she&#8217;s certainly had a front-row seat on the effects of rapid warming in the higher latitudes.<\/p>\n<p>Also under the heading of &#8220;in case you missed it,&#8221; worth hearing is the America Abroad special that aired last week on KQED Radio. Co-hosted by Ray Suarez and Deborah Amos, <a title=\"Feeling the Heat\" href=\"http:\/\/www.americaabroadmedia.org\/programs\/view\/id\/85\">Feeling the Heat<\/a> explores the positions of the two major candidates on climate change, as well as the history of climate science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. 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