{"id":60436,"date":"2025-06-25T10:24:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=60436"},"modified":"2025-06-25T10:24:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:24:33","slug":"hot-air-propaganda-targeting-the-uninformed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=60436","title":{"rendered":"Hot Air Propaganda &#8211; Targeting the Uninformed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60437\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Hot_Air_Propaganda-Targeting_the_Uninformed.jpg\" alt=\"Hot Air Propaganda - Targeting the Uninformed\" width=\"679\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Hot_Air_Propaganda-Targeting_the_Uninformed.jpg 679w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Hot_Air_Propaganda-Targeting_the_Uninformed-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Malcolm Roberts writes:<br \/>\nA lie collapses slowly, then all at once.<\/p>\n<p>Climate Change is a scam, a fundraiser for large corporations using the nobility paradox to get away with increasingly harmful policies that damage our economy and take away abundance and opportunity for all.<\/p>\n<p>24 years ago today, the great Thomas Sowell nailed this one: Global warming propaganda is targeted at the uninformed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm Roberts writes: A lie collapses slowly, then all at once. Climate Change is a scam, a fundraiser for large corporations using the nobility paradox to get away with increasingly harmful policies that damage our economy and take away abundance and opportunity for all. 24 years ago today, the great Thomas Sowell nailed this one: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=60436\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hot Air Propaganda &#8211; Targeting the Uninformed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60438,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60436\/revisions\/60438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}