{"id":22266,"date":"2014-12-01T16:02:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T21:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=22266"},"modified":"2014-12-01T16:03:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T21:03:01","slug":"bishops-worldwide-pray-and-fast-for-the-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bishops-worldwide-pray-and-fast-for-the-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishops worldwide pray and fast for the climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as shamans used to prance around to induce rain, so the modern equivalent &#8211; Anglican Bishops &#8211; are fasting to induce cooling. Even granting the truth of anthropogenic global warming, since China\u2019s production of one new coal-fired power plant per week is unlikely to be slowed by a few fasting bishops &#8211; many of whom are secret admirers of the socialist paradise &#8211; I am confident that the new shamans will be as effective as their progenitors.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicannews.org\/news\/2014\/12\/bishops-worldwide-pray-and-fast-for-the-climate.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Bishop of Salisbury is praying and fasting today, and on the first day of every month, for a meaningful and fair agreement at next year\u2019s UN climate talks.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026.]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristians in this country have been encouraged to join in by Operation Noah. At this time next year, negotiators from around the world will gather for another round of UN climate talks in Paris, at which it is vital to make progress. That\u2019s why I\u2019m asking people to join in praying and fasting about climate change.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as shamans used to prance around to induce rain, so the modern equivalent &#8211; Anglican Bishops &#8211; are fasting to induce cooling. Even granting the truth of anthropogenic global warming, since China\u2019s production of one new coal-fired power plant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bishops-worldwide-pray-and-fast-for-the-climate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[1925,2156],"class_list":["post-22266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warming","tag-bishop-of-salisbury","tag-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}