{"id":7515,"date":"2015-11-23T09:38:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T16:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7515"},"modified":"2015-11-23T09:38:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T16:38:22","slug":"fact-checking-the-presidential-candidates-on-climate-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/fact-checking-the-presidential-candidates-on-climate-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact checking the presidential candidates on climate science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/rundown\/fact-checking-the-presidential-candidates-on-climate-science\/#.VlJBZ6DHRhQ.twitter\">Fact checking the presidential candidates on climate science<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>At the request of The Associated Press, eight climate and biological scientists graded for scientific accuracy what a dozen top candidates said in debates, interviews and tweets, using a 0 to 100 scale. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Below Clinton\u2019s 94 were O\u2019Malley with 91; Sanders, 87; Bush, 64; Christie, 54; Ohio Gov. John Kasich, 47; Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, 38; Fiorina, 28; Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, 21; businessman Donald Trump, 15; retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, 13; and Cruz with 6.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/rundown\/fact-checking-the-presidential-candidates-on-climate-science\/#.VlJBZ6DHRhQ.twitter\">Fact checking the presidential candidates on climate science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fact checking the presidential candidates on climate science At the request of The Associated Press, eight climate and biological scientists graded for scientific accuracy what a dozen top candidates said in debates, interviews and tweets, using a 0 to 100 scale. \u2026 Below Clinton\u2019s 94 were O\u2019Malley with 91; Sanders, 87; Bush, 64; Christie, 54; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/fact-checking-the-presidential-candidates-on-climate-science\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fact checking the presidential candidates on climate science<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7516,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7515\/revisions\/7516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}