{"id":7928,"date":"2011-12-16T16:22:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T21:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/?p=7928"},"modified":"2011-12-16T16:22:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T21:22:06","slug":"pachauri-give-skeptics-one-way-ticket-to-outer-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2011\/12\/pachauri-give-skeptics-one-way-ticket-to-outer-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Pachauri: Give skeptics &#8216;one-way ticket&#8217; to outer space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indeed.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Grist.org <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/climate-skeptics\/2011-12-16-new-approach-to-climate-deniers-launch-them-into-space\">reports<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;More laughter came when [IPCC head Rajendra] Pachauri joked that Branson could give climate deniers tickets on the aviation mogul&#8217;s planned flights into outer space. &#8220;Perhaps it could be a one-way ticket,&#8221; Pachauri said, smiling, &#8220;though I&#8217;m not sure space deserves them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s sad that in America you don&#8217;t talk about climate change because of Republicans,&#8221; said the British Branson, who described &#8220;exciting breakthroughs&#8221; in Virgin&#8217;s efforts to develop low-carbon aviation fuels. Showing particular promise is an algae-based fuel that, Branson said, could reduce aviation&#8217;s carbon emissions by 80 to 90 percent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-energy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6SqJi-23S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}