{"id":3354,"date":"2026-04-15T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scientistrebellion.nl\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2026-04-17T09:11:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:11:05","slug":"factcheck-nine-false-or-misleading-myths-about-north-sea-oil-and-gas-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scientistrebellion.nl\/index.php\/en\/2026\/04\/15\/factcheck-nine-false-or-misleading-myths-about-north-sea-oil-and-gas-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Factcheck: Nine false or false misleading myths about North Sea oil and gas. #1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>We are facing surging oil prices and rising costs for fertilisers, food and other commodities. Trump&#8217;s reckless actions in Iran are pushing the global economy to the brink of an economic crisis. Many are seizing the opportunity to start drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea. This Carbon Brief paper debunks the myths surrounding drilling in the North Sea.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/factcheck-nine-false-or-misleading-myths-about-north-sea-oil-and-gas\/\">appeared first in Carbon Brief<\/a> on 25 March 2026 and was written by Daisy Dunne, Josh Gabbatiss, Molly Lempriere and Simon Evans. This text has been republished here under a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/legalcode\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CC license<\/a>. We will publish it in five parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/qa-what-does-the-iran-war-mean-for-the-energy-transition-and-climate-action\/\">Iran war<\/a>&nbsp;has triggered another fossil-fuel energy crisis, with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/qa-why-does-gas-set-the-price-of-electricity-and-is-there-an-alternative\/\">surging global prices<\/a>&nbsp;and increasing concerns over energy security. In the UK, as in the Netherlands, many newspapers, opposition politicians and other public figures have used the crisis to argue in favour of issuing more licences for oil and gas drilling in the North Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These arguments have also been amplified in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/leohickman.carbonbrief.org\/post\/3mhgb3t53yc2r\">AI-generated posts<\/a>&nbsp;on social media, shared by fake accounts that usually post anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim content. However, many of these arguments rest on false or misleading claims about the impact that further drilling could have on the UK\u2019s bills, energy security, emissions and tax revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The North Sea is a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/post.parliament.uk\/north-sea-oil-and-gas\/\">mature basin<\/a>\u201d where production has been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nstauthority.co.uk\/data-and-insights\/insights-and-analysis\/production-and-expenditure-projections\/\">falling for decades<\/a>, because most of the oil and gas it once contained has already been extracted. While it would be possible to slow the rate of decline in oil and gas output from the North Sea, the quantities that would be economic to extract are disputed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, the transition to clean-energy supplies is expected to be far more effective at boosting UK energy security and reducing reliance on imports. Moreover, the climate-change arguments for limiting fossil-fuel production, which have been made by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/new-fossil-fuels-incompatible-with-1-5c-goal-comprehensive-analysis-finds\/\">scientists<\/a>, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antonioguterres\/status\/1511294073474367488\">UN secretary general<\/a> and even the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/daily-brief\/enough-with-fossil-fuels-pope-says-in-latest-climate-appeal\/#:~:text=Pope%20Francis%20has%20said%20it,the%20era%20of%20fossil%20fuel%E2%80%9D.\">Pope<\/a>, remain as valid as ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below, Carbon Brief factchecks some of the most common claims about North Sea oil and gas. (Most of these factchecks also apply to other countries around the North Sea, susch as Germany and The Netherlands.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"#false1\">FALSE<\/a>: \u2018Reopening the North Sea would lower bills\u2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#misleading\">MISLEADING<\/a>: \u2018Energy from the North Sea generates a lot less CO2\u2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FALSE: \u2018Britain is a resource-rich nation that has chosen dependency\u2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FALSE: North Sea is \u2018best way to protect us from volatility and provide energy security\u2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MISLEADING: \u2018The head honchos of the green lobby say we should drill\u2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FALSE: \u2018The UK is the only country in the world banning new oil and gas licenses\u2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MISLEADING: \u2018With new North Sea licences would come thousands of jobs\u2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MISLEADING: North Sea drilling \u2018would secure a rush of revenue into the Treasury\u2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FALSE: Ed Miliband is an \u2018anti-North Sea\u2019 climate change \u2018fanatic\u2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FALSE: \u2018We share the same basin with Norway\u2026there is not a geological difference.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" id=\"false1\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FALSE: \u2018Reopening the North Sea would lower bills\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Many right-leaning newspapers and commentators have falsely argued that opening up new oil and gas fields in the North Sea would lower energy bills in the UK. There is no evidence to support such claims. Indeed, numerous experts have explained that new drilling would make no difference to bills in the UK.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/uk\/daily-express\/20260314\/281479282925057\">Daily Express<\/a>&nbsp;carried fact-free assertions from the hard-right, climate-sceptic Reform party on its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/jacksurfleet.bsky.social\/post\/3mgxyh3mt4k2y\">frontpage<\/a>&nbsp;under the headline: \u201cGet drilling to stop bills soaring.\u201d Despite the UK not using oil to generate power, it claimed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cOpen[ing] up the UK\u2019s biggest oil field [would] stop power bills soaring.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>At the beginning of March, US president Donald Trump told the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/38389538\/keir-pandering-muslim-voters-trump-iran-blitz\/\">Sun<\/a>&nbsp;that his advice to UK prime minister Keir Starmer would be:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cOpen up the North Sea. Immediately. Your energy prices are through the roof.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2026\/03\/22\/miliband-is-wrong-reopening-the-north-sea-would-lower-bills\/\">Daily Telegraph<\/a>, an \u201cenergy consultant\u201d called Kathryn Porter, who has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/wip\/ycNXQ\">authored<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cpapers\u201d for climate-sceptic&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmog.com\/2023\/06\/22\/climate-sceptic-goes-unchallenged-on-bbcs-today-programme\/\">lobbyists<\/a>, listed why she thinks more drilling could cut energy bills under the headline: \u201cReopening the North Sea would lower bills.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/reformparty_uk\/status\/2030922359272534042\">Twitter<\/a>, Reform said the Labour and Conservative governments had \u201cfailed the British people\u201d by \u201crefusing to drill in the North Sea\u201d. It added that more drilling would make \u201cBritain energy independent once again\u201d and \u201cbring down bills\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contrary to these claims, numerous experts have said that further drilling in the North Sea would do nothing to cut bills, because UK energy prices are set on international markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2022, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theccc.org.uk\/\">Climate Change Committee<\/a>&nbsp;(CCC)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theccc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Letter-to-Kwasi-Kwarteng-Climate-Compatibility-of-New-Oil-and-Gas-Fields.pdf\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;that increased UK extraction was not expected to \u201cmaterially affect global oil or gas prices, as the UK energy market is highly connected to international markets and the potential supply [is] relatively small\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It added that, even if all proven UK reserves and resources of gas from new fields were extracted, this would only meet about 1% of European demand each year up to 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordenergy.org\/authors\/jack-sharples\/\">Jack Sharples<\/a>, senior research fellow at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordenergy.org\/\">Oxford Institute for Energy Studies<\/a>&nbsp;(OEIS), tells Carbon Brief that \u201cyou\u2019re not going to bring prices down versus the current level, because you\u2019re not going to be able to produce very much more [from the North Sea]\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Labour government has made similar arguments, saying in a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/iran-the-middle-east-and-uk-energy-factsheet\">factsheet<\/a>\u201d on the Iran crisis that the UK is a \u201cprice-taker\u2026not [a] price-maker\u201d. It said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cFuture exploration in the North Sea is too marginal to make a difference to the overall supply in an international market\u2026New licences to explore new fields wouldn\u2019t make any difference to the prices set by international markets and paid by UK billpayers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Even shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho, who has advocated strongly for further drilling,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BBCBreakfast\/status\/1721438027250028725\">admitted in 2023<\/a>&nbsp;that new licenses \u201cwouldn\u2019t necessarily bring energy bills down\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coutinho\u2019s party has launched a \u201cget Britain drilling\u201d campaign,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Conservatives\/status\/2038533175681409267\">stating<\/a>that \u201cthe Conservatives will extract every drop of oil and gas from the North Sea and cut your energy bills\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Badenoch has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1d941vw172o\">conceded<\/a>&nbsp;that any proposed cuts to energy bills would not come from extracting more fossil fuels, but rather&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15689507\/KEMI-BADENOCH-North-Sea-gas-heat-1-6m-homes-winter-insulate-Scotland-chaos-Gulf.html\">from<\/a>&nbsp;existing pledges to \u201cscrap green taxes and remove VAT from domestic energy bills\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Badenoch has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1d941vw172o\">conceded<\/a>&nbsp;that any proposed cuts to energy bills would not come from extracting more fossil fuels, but rather&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15689507\/KEMI-BADENOCH-North-Sea-gas-heat-1-6m-homes-winter-insulate-Scotland-chaos-Gulf.html\">from<\/a>&nbsp;existing pledges to \u201cscrap green taxes and remove VAT from domestic energy bills\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The North Sea is a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/post.parliament.uk\/north-sea-oil-and-gas\/\">mature basin<\/a>\u201d, with around 90% of what it contained \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/eciu.net\/media\/press-releases\/around-90-of-uk-north-sea-oil-and-gas-already-drained-dry-analysis\">already drained dry<\/a>\u201d. Most of what is produced for the basin is now oil, around&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upliftuk.org\/post\/iran-conflict-and-rising-energy-prices-what-difference-would-the-north-sea-make\">80%<\/a>&nbsp;of which is exported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, oil and gas reserves are owned by private companies once licences are issued and the fuel is sold at international rates. Therefore, whether it is produced in the North Sea or elsewhere, its price is driven by the global market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, the limited quantity of gas left in the ageing North Sea basin would do little to impact international markets and, thus, little to impact international prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Does the UK need more North Sea gas licenses?\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cfoXB1i9riI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Climate YouTuber Simon Clark discusses whether more North Sea oil and gas drilling could lower energy bills in the UK.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk\/news\/drill-baby-drill-approach-north-sea-would-cost-households-more-fully-renewable-uk-finds-oxford\">analysis<\/a>&nbsp;by the Smith School at the University of Oxford found that, even if the UK maximised North Sea oil and gas and used all revenues from the sector to subsidise lower energy bills, the impact would be limited. Under this unlikely&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/would-more-north-sea-drilling-lower-uk-energy-bills-our-analysis-says-no-278467?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%2017%202026%20-%203707837926&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%2017%202026%20-%203707837926+CID_4200bfb1310cccd9ef2849481024fb20&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&amp;utm_term=moving%20away%20from%20gas-powered%20electricity%20and%20towards%20renewables\">scenario<\/a>&nbsp;household bills could fall between \u00a316 and \u00a382 per year, or 1-4.6% a year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fact that further oil and gas production in the North Sea would have a limited impact on energy bills has been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GregHands\/status\/1489307808424239109\">noted<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2026\/03\/16\/wind-industry-urges-miliband-restart-north-sea-drilling\">repeatedly<\/a>, even by those in favour of drilling in the North Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, in a separate comment piece in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2026\/03\/18\/britain-should-max-out-on-both-renewables-north-sea-oil\/\">Daily Telegraph<\/a>&nbsp;calling on the UK to \u201cmax out on both renewables and North Sea oil and gas\u201d, world economy editor Ambrose Evans Pritchard wrote:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cReopening the North Sea would not make any difference to the current crisis, nor any difference to gas and petrol prices in the UK, since the volumes are too small to shift the traded global market.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>As such, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ukerc.ac.uk\/\">UK Energy Research Centre<\/a>&nbsp;(UKERC) explained in a recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ukerc.ac.uk\/news\/drilling-for-oil-and-gas-will-not-reduce-bills-or-deliver-energy-security-heres-why\/\">note<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cSqueezing additional oil and gas production from the UK may be technically possible, but it will have [a] negligible impact on the UK cost of living\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" id=\"misleading\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MISLEADING: \u2018Energy from the North Sea generates a lot less CO2\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Many North Sea advocates argue that drilling more in the basin would mean lower carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, due to the high emissions from imported fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a line often used by the oil-and-gas industry, with the trade body&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/oeuk.org.uk\/\">Offshore Energies UK<\/a>&nbsp;(OEUK)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/oeuk.org.uk\/leaders-unite-across-sectors-to-secure-britain-with-homegrown-energy\/\">stating<\/a>&nbsp;that \u201cLNG cargoes\u2026are four times more carbon intensive than homegrown gas\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, it is an argument that is sometimes used by commentators who \u2013 in other circumstances \u2013 would not be making the case for low-carbon policies.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15665931\/ANDREW-NEIL-stuck-oil-gas-crisis-theres-bunch-clueless-inadequates-tiller.html\">Mail on Sunday<\/a>&nbsp;column, the climate-sceptic journalist Andrew Neil wrote that \u201cgiving the North Sea a new lease of life\u201d would:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cEven lower carbon emissions (because piping in energy from the North Sea generates a lot less CO2 than importing it).\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Conservative shadow energy secretary, Claire Coutinho, has also used this approach to question the government\u2019s supposed opposition to North Sea drilling, writing in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/politics\/2026\/03\/23\/ed-miliband-accused-net-zero-fanaticism-north-sea-oil\">Daily Telegraph<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cDoing so in the name of climate change when our own gas has four times fewer emissions than the LNG we\u2019ll need to import instead? Unforgivable.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The claim that UK gas from the North Sea produces \u201ca lot less CO2\u201d \u2013 and particularly the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/factcheck-north-sea-gas-is-not-four-times-cleaner-than-lng-imports\/\">commonly cited<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cfour times fewer emissions\u201d figure used by Coutinho and OEUK \u2013 is misleading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It references the fact that imported LNG has higher&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nstauthority.co.uk\/media\/nupk5sx1\/emissions-intensity-of-producing-natural-gas-factsheet-sept-2025.pdf\">overall emissions<\/a>&nbsp;than North Sea gas, due to the energy-intensive processes needed to liquify, transport and regasify it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, as the chart below shows, the vast majority of emissions from gas result from burning it to produce energy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When CO2 from gas combustion is taken into account, North Sea gas emissions are not four times lower than LNG emissions, but 15% lower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/north-sea-gas-scaled-1-728x1024.webp\" alt=\"Emissions (grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour) from North Sea gas v LNG imports.\" class=\"wp-image-61813\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Emissions (grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour) from North Sea gas v LNG imports. Source: Carbon Brief analysis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The UK is reliant on LNG imports from a handful of countries, notably the US and Qatar. However, at present these imports make up only&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nstauthority.co.uk\/media\/nupk5sx1\/emissions-intensity-of-producing-natural-gas-factsheet-sept-2025.pdf\">around 15%<\/a>of the UK\u2019s gas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the remaining gas used in the UK, roughly half is produced domestically and the rest comes via pipeline from Norway. Norwegian pipeline gas has even&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nstauthority.co.uk\/media\/nupk5sx1\/emissions-intensity-of-producing-natural-gas-factsheet-sept-2025.pdf\">lower emissions<\/a>&nbsp;than UK supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More broadly,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theccc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Letter-to-Kwasi-Kwarteng-Climate-Compatibility-of-New-Oil-and-Gas-Fields.pdf\">analysis<\/a>&nbsp;by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theccc.org.uk\/\">Climate Change Committee<\/a>&nbsp;in 2022 found that, despite the small \u201cemissions advantage\u201d of UK domestic production replacing imports, this could be wiped out if increased UK production led to more fossil-fuel production overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are facing surging oil prices and rising costs for fertilisers, food and other commodities. Trump&#8217;s reckless actions in Iran are pushing the global economy to the brink of an economic crisis. Many are seizing the opportunity to start drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea. This Carbon Brief paper debunks the myths &#8230; <a title=\"Factcheck: Nine false or false misleading myths about North Sea oil and gas. #1\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientistrebellion.nl\/index.php\/en\/2026\/04\/15\/factcheck-nine-false-or-misleading-myths-about-north-sea-oil-and-gas-1\/\" aria-label=\"Lees meer over Factcheck: Nine false or false misleading myths about North Sea oil and gas. #1\">Lees verder<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":true,"iawp_total_views":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-untold-news-that-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scientistrebellion.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scientistrebellion.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scientistrebellion.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scientistrebellion.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scientistrebellion.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.scientistrebellion.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3472,"href":"https:\/\/www.scientistrebellion.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions\/3472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scientistrebellion.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scientistrebellion.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scientistrebellion.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scientistrebellion.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}