Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Evangelicals and Global Warming absolutism iffy?

Which group has it wrong--

1. These evangelicals?

Read New York Times article on the group of evangelicals' statements here.

2. The British?
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8398

The British scientist in the article curiously states that the possible coming ice age in Europe is caused by global warming! Ice Age - Global (not regional) Caused by Global (not regional) Warming(?). I'll bet they all chafe at a human history with a global flood, while buying it on the planet Mars!

Or the Russians?
http://upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060207-041447-2345r

The posturing over the issue of global warming seems to contain a lot of pseudo guilt about economic prosperity. The capacity of human beings to effect worldwide climate change is questionable at best and most likely quite negligible. Some like me are more likely to prefer the Russian explanation. The sun is a weightier factor than anything we mortals are doing. Others have pointed out that volcanic activity (again outside human agency) is yet another humongous factor dwarfing ours.

For a more scholarly view, by a female academic on global warming as an issue and as science, go to: http://www.hillsdale.edu/imprimis/2002/march/default.htm

Thanks K.O. for the good forward of your friend S.'s comments with the great links.

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