{"id":2077,"date":"2010-04-11T19:44:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T03:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2010-04-11T19:44:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T03:44:19","slug":"science-and-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/11\/science-and-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Science and Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/24\/a-physics-mavens-take-on-skeptical-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">an interview with John Cook<\/a>, the creator of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticalscience.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skeptical Science blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q. What is your scientific background and\/or interest or activity in the environmental arena?<\/p>\n<p>A. I studied physics at university and majored in astrophysics in my post-grad honors year. After completing my studies, I went into real world (a sorely needed break from academia) and I\u2019ve been working from home for just over a decade now. I\u2019ve never been involved in environmentalism before. To be honest, I\u2019m not sure I\u2019d characterize myself as an environmentalist now. While I got into global warming out of scientific curiosity, my continued interest and all the hours I spend on it are more out of concern for humanity than nature. I\u2019m a Christian and a strong aspect of my faith is social conscience \u2013 hating injustice and caring for the poor. As I pored through the research into global warming impacts, I learned that poor and developing countries are those worst affected by global warming. Ironically, these are the countries least able to adapt to climate change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(It may help his sense of urgency that he is Australian, where almost the entire population lives within an hour&#8217;s drive of the coastline.)<\/p>\n<p>Cook has also produced <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/skeptical-science\/id353938484\" target=\"_blank\">an iPhone app called Skeptical Science, which contains a list of arguments against standard anti-global-warming talking points<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an interview with John Cook, the creator of the Skeptical Science blog. Q. What is your scientific background and\/or interest or activity in the environmental arena? A. I studied physics at university and majored in astrophysics in my post-grad honors year. After completing my studies, I went into real world (a sorely needed break [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[248,1013,1052,1115],"class_list":["post-2077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-christianity","tag-religion","tag-science","tag-social-justice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-xv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}