{"id":3439,"date":"2013-12-30T11:59:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T17:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=3439"},"modified":"2013-12-30T11:59:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T17:59:18","slug":"interesting-the-connection-between-tobacco-deniers-and-climate-change-deniers-is-evident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=3439","title":{"rendered":"Interesting! The connection between tobacco deniers and climate change deniers is evident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>December 30, 2013-by Peter Sinclair at <a href=\"http:\/\/climatecrocks.com\/2013\/12\/29\/2013-in-videos\/\">Climate Denial Crock of the Week<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dj0PYdl99tI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Congressman &#8220;Smokey Joe&#8221; Barton is known for apologizing to BP after the 2010 Oil spill, and harassing climate scientists.<br \/>\nTurns out he&#8217;s also been a key connection between the tobacco industry and the climate denial industry. Archival footage from ABC News on the tobacco wars of the 90s turns up sequences of Smoky Joe in action on behalf of Big Cancer.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 30, 2013-by Peter Sinclair at Climate Denial Crock of the Week Congressman &#8220;Smokey Joe&#8221; Barton is known for apologizing to BP after the 2010 Oil spill, and harassing climate scientists. Turns out he&#8217;s also been a key connection between &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=3439\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3440,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions\/3440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}