{"id":1346,"date":"2012-02-23T05:51:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T05:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2012-02-23T05:51:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T05:51:08","slug":"watts-up-with-chris-huhne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/02\/23\/watts-up-with-chris-huhne\/","title":{"rendered":"Watts up with Chris Huhne?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of balance and fair-mindedness, I have been struggling for a week or so to find anyone with a good word to say about the lately departed Chris Huhne, but the web is full of direct and\/or oblique abuse about either his appeal as a human being (limited, it seems), or his policies around energy and climate change (which many, of course do find admirable).<\/p>\n<p>Newspapers tended to focus\u00a0on both aspects. \u00a0A Matt cartoon in the Telegraph showed all the wind farms in the country coming to a standstill on Huhne's resignation \u2013 no more of that hot air, you see. \u00a0Sadly, I had to have that explained to me.<\/p>\n<p>Climate change blogs, of course, just deal with the policy issues and many view Huhne in the negative. \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2012\/02\/03\/huhne-is-no-loss\/#more-55897\">Wattsupwiththat<\/a> is a case in point, and is instructive if you're interested in what to teach about all this: wind farm policy and effectivenesss \/ keeping the lights on \/ bankruptcy \/ carbon taxes \/ ... \u00a0and the notion of balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of balance and fair-mindedness, I have been struggling for a week or so to find anyone with a good word to say about the lately departed Chris Huhne, but the web is full of direct and\/or oblique...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}