{"id":17516,"date":"2017-04-25T03:23:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T09:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=17516"},"modified":"2017-04-25T07:34:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T13:34:12","slug":"former-obama-official-says-bureaucrats-manipulate-climate-stats-to-influence-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/former-obama-official-says-bureaucrats-manipulate-climate-stats-to-influence-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Obama Official Says Bureaucrats Manipulate Climate Stats to Influence Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"610\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<blockquote class=\"repubhubembed\">\n<p class=\"rhexcerpt\">A former member of the Obama administration claims Washington D.C. often uses \u201cmisleading\u201d news releases about climate data to influence public opinion. Former Energy Department Undersecretary Steven Koonin told The Wall Street Journal Monday that bureaucrats within former President Barack Obama\u2019s administration spun scientific data to manipulate public opinion. \u201cWhat you saw coming out of the&hellip;<!--more--><\/p>\n<style scoped>.repubhubembed{display:none;}<\/style>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"rhembed\" src=\"\/\/static.icopyright.net\/user\/view.act?p=MTgxNjY=&#038;c=Mzk3NjUyNDM=&#038;fuid=MjUxOTM3NTk=&#038;s=repubhub&#038;showFirstImage=true&#038;showDate=false\" height=\"1500\" style=\"width:100%;border:0;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;\"><\/iframe><script async type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.icopyright.net\/user\/js\/rh.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!-- TO HIDE THE DATE OR FIRST IMAGE, change \"showDate=true\" or \"showFirstImage=true\" to \"false\" --> <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former member of the Obama administration claims Washington D.C. often uses \u201cmisleading\u201d news releases about climate data to influence public opinion. Former Energy Department Undersecretary Steven Koonin told The Wall Street Journal Monday that bureaucrats within former President Barack Obama\u2019s administration spun scientific data to manipulate public opinion. \u201cWhat you saw coming out of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/former-obama-official-says-bureaucrats-manipulate-climate-stats-to-influence-policy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former Obama Official Says Bureaucrats Manipulate Climate Stats to Influence Policy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[404,736,131,142,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17517,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17516\/revisions\/17517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}