{"id":3969,"date":"2015-04-05T08:08:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T14:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=3969"},"modified":"2015-04-07T07:05:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T13:05:10","slug":"cronkite-reported-on-climate-change-in-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=3969","title":{"rendered":"Cronkite reported on climate change in 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>April 5, 2015 &#8211; by John Blair, <em>valleywatch.net<\/em> editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thirty-five years ago, the &#8220;most trusted man in America,&#8221; Walter Cronkite ran a story on his nightly newscast regarding global warming and climate change. Since then hundreds pf scientific studies have been done confirming a warming planet and sometimes dire predictions of the future.\u00a0Today, the heads of Congress&#8217;s environmental committees are climate deniers who are seeking to relegate the nation one the Earth to what could be significant horrors of disastrous weather events and environmental dislocation. Sadly, the world seems so addicted to fossil fuels that any sort of fix for this imminent problem remains elusive.\u00a0<\/span><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MU9s0XyEctI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/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>April 5, 2015 &#8211; by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor Thirty-five years ago, the &#8220;most trusted man in America,&#8221; Walter Cronkite ran a story on his nightly newscast regarding global warming and climate change. Since then hundreds pf scientific studies have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=3969\">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":[70,25,155,377],"class_list":["post-3969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-coal","tag-global-warming","tag-wlater-cronkite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969","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=3969"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3979,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions\/3979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}