{"id":16216,"date":"2017-01-04T12:42:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T17:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=16216"},"modified":"2017-01-04T12:42:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T17:42:29","slug":"environmental-extremism-has-a-cost-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/environmental-extremism-has-a-cost-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental \u201cextremism\u201d has a cost: reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Provincial government\u2019s 2017: Higher gas prices. Higher home heating costs. A cap and trade system that has failed elsewhere (i.e. Europe). And all at a time of economic fragility as so many Chambers of Commerce recently pointed out.<br \/>\nBusinesses leaving the province or thinking of it. Jobs going south. Yes, welcome to a future for the young graduates where already reduced job opportunities and inert wages are reality.<br \/>\nAll this environmental mania when the world\u2019s temperature has risen approximately one half of a centigrade degree, or almost one Fahrenheit degree, in 35 years. Consider: minimal global warming for 18 years, though carbon emissions in the world have steadily increased throughout that period.<br \/>\nNote to the Liberals under Wynne: our planet has been warmer several times in its history than it is now. Clearly the world\u2019s temperature is subject to fluctuations for other than human reasons.<br \/>\nEnvironmental extremism has a cost. Get ready for it Ontarians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rick Doust<br \/>\nAurora<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Provincial government\u2019s 2017: Higher gas prices. Higher home heating costs. A cap and trade system that has failed elsewhere (i.e. Europe). And all at a time of economic fragility as so many Chambers of Commerce recently pointed out. Businesses leaving the province or thinking of it. Jobs going south. Yes, welcome to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}