{"id":399,"date":"2013-06-11T10:51:32","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T17:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2013-06-12T11:42:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T18:42:42","slug":"tried-to-directly-ask-al-gore-a-question-about-gelbspan-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Tried to Directly Ask Al Gore a Question about Gelbspan today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Straight from an email I received from Al Gore (Steve Milloy&#8217;s reproduced <a href=\"http:\/\/junkscience.com\/2013\/06\/10\/al-gore-equates-skepticism-with-racism-and-homophobia\/\" target=\"_blank\">an identical one to him<\/a>): <em>I\u2019m pleased to invite you to join me for an interactive Google Hangout with my good friend Jeff Skoll tomorrow, June 11, at 2pm EDT &#8230;. Most importantly, I want to invite you to participate in shaping the conversation by submitting your questions and watching the Hangout here<\/em>.\u00a0 Well, I gave it a shot.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It appears the <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/events\/crr4hedpll2u0lbt08ut37bdt1c\" target=\"_blank\">Google+ Conversation with Al Gore about Combating Climate Change<\/a> event is <em>very<\/em> selective on which comments \/ questions it actually accepts. The <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101550240919131709244\/posts\/ZGTYZ7giKCm\" target=\"_blank\">one I submitted<\/a> (screencap of it below, just in case), based on a problem I pointed to <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=354\" target=\"_blank\">in my blog here yesterday<\/a>, did not make the cut, apparently. Will Gore attempt to answer the question if it ever gets to him? I&#8217;m not taking bets he will&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Gore6-11event-commq.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-400\" alt=\"Gore6-11event comm&amp;q\" src=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Gore6-11event-commq-300x194.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Gore6-11event-commq-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Gore6-11event-commq-1024x664.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Gore6-11event-commq-462x300.jpg 462w, http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Gore6-11event-commq.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Straight from an email I received from Al Gore (Steve Milloy&#8217;s reproduced an identical one to him): I\u2019m pleased to invite you to join me for an interactive Google Hangout with my good friend Jeff Skoll tomorrow, June 11, at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=399\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}