Preachers used to warn of divine judgment if sinners did not repent and turn to God...Now, increasingly, preachers of the Left are instead warning of cataclysmic climate change if polluters (especially of the American variety) do not abandon economic growth and yield to the most apocalyptic scenarios of the environmental movement...President Bush, of course, is the main King Ahab against whom these prophets of doom now prophesy...The most recent prophecy, in March, came from the Church of England's Archbishop of Canterbury....The Church of Global Warming, Mark Tooley, Front Page,
Mark Tooley has a wonderful catch here. While Michael Crichton has said for years that global warming is a tenet of a secular faith, not a supportable conclusion from science, Tooley reports a splendid truth. As science has turned away from global warming as a plausible thesis derived from data, Greens have convinced a few Protestant sects to pitch their faith instead. The Church of England was a good place to start; in the last thirty years, the C of E, as it is sometimes called, has had several avowed atheists in the position of Archbishop of Canterbury (C of E's "Pope"), so it shouldn't be surprising that they'd conflate their already dilluted faith with the confabulations of Global Warming believers.
Trouble with believers, of course, is that they're not much interested in the views of heretics. In fact, as we know from radical Islam, those viewed as heretics are regarded as proper targets for murder or, in well-documented cases among Greens in the United States, large-scale arson and sabotage.
More traditional religionists will recall, with the Psalmist, that the earth is the Lord's footstool, and it is not the fragile porcelain imagined by some ardent secularists and religious faddists. God may indeed judge the world, but the sins that provoke Him might be more serious than purchasing an SUV or occasionally voting Republican....The Church of Global Warming, Mark Tooley, Front Page,
Faith and reason live different realms. It is fine and appropriate to believe in the tenets of any religion. It is not reasonable, however, to expect anyone outside of that religion to join the congregation, especially under threat of murder and damnation. Separation of church and state didn't come about casually but after five centuries of sectarian war.
Luther
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"As science has turned away from global warming as a plausible thesis derived from data, Greens have convinced a few Protestant sects to pitch their faith instead."
You have written that sentence at a strange time given that the last year or so has seen a dramatic increase in the strength of the science regarding global warming. For example, the satellite data on the lower tropospheric temperatures, which once seemed to show less warming than was seen by surface temperature measurements, has now been shown to be in line with the surface measurements. And, the warming of the oceans was shown to have a structure that was compatible with the temperature increase being due to CO2 and not compatible with being due to natural causes.
And last year, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences joined the academy of sciences of 10 other countries (Canada, U.K., Japan, Germany, India, Russia, ...) in issuing a joint statement on climate change that says:
"Climate change is real
...
The scientific understanding of climate change is now sufficiently clear to justify nations taking prompt action. It is vital that all nations identify cost-effective steps that they can take now, to contribute to substantial and long-term reduction in net global greenhouse gas emissions.
Action taken now to reduce significantly the build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will lessen the magnitude and rate of climate change. As the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) recognises, a lack of full scientific certainty about some aspects of climate change is not a reason for delaying an immediate response that will, at a reasonable cost, prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference withthe climate system."
(see www.nationalacademies.org/onpi/06072005.pdf )
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