Joining a brain trust that boasts such members Stone Age Senator James Inhofe and TV game show host Pat Sajak, conservative Christian Reverend Jerry Falwell has spoken out on global warming, proclaiming it ... you guessed it ... a "myth." (You should really watch the linked news segment. It must be seen to be believed.)
He says blah blah global cooling in the '70s blah blah natural cycle, but the best part is where he uncovers the nefarious secret agenda of the global warming crowd. To wit:
- Those drawing attention to global warming want to economically destroy America, because ... uh ... they just do.
- Moreover, they want to distract attention from the fact that the world -- the whole world! -- is morally bankrupt.
- Worse yet, they want to redirect the church's focus, distracting it from its core mission of hating Teh Gay.
Falwell notes that the connection between CO2 and warming is "the greatest deception in the history of science" -- presumably greater than biologists' deception about evolution and geologists' deception about the age of the earth. You just can't turn your back on those lyin' scientists!
PS, Falwell acknowledges he's not a scientist, but he's taken a few years to study the issue, so don't go questioning his credentials on this matter.
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Baby Boomer Posted 3:42 am
26 Feb 2007
Jerry Falwell
He just keeps giving Christians a bad name.
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Tod Posted 4:51 am
26 Feb 2007
Baby Boomer Nails It
I agree with you, BB. He does give Xtians a bad name - but really only to those hopefully few who haven't the ability to discern between different Christian teachings. Anyone who groups all Christians together likely groups all Muslims together, all blacks together, et cetera, and represent a special type of bigot who we can disregard as far from integral to any social or political movement.
Yet - the thrust of your comment speaks to the problem we face when it comes to incorporating religion into the fight for a sustainable future. I see great strides being made, but Falwell doesn't help matters.
Roberts' PS is flippin' hilarious, btw.
"Because the world doesn't matter if you don't have the strength to go ahead and choose something that's really true." - Julio Cortazar www.todbrilliant.com
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Sam Wells Posted 6:26 am
26 Feb 2007
Failure Analysis
LOL, there is a branch of science that deals with what is called "failure analysis," like why some bridges fall down in an earthquake and others do not. Many were involved in the 9-11/NIST/WTC investigation. It's some pretty cool stuff.
Perhaps Jimmie Fallible needs a little failure analysis? Were there some stress cracks that caused him to go kaflooie? Is he showing signs of early onset Alzheimer's? Teaming with a panel of brain and spine experts, we might just be able to figure out what when wrong with the man, and why. /sammie
Onward through the fog
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Zarkov Posted 6:48 am
26 Feb 2007
Oh the irony
Hey, pointed fingers only get burnt when the world (including this site)is guilty of an even greater fraud.
Global warming is a myth... well fair enough for the average Joe, a little warmer is luvly
Global warming IS caused by greenhouse gases you say..... no excuse about accepting this fraudulent science unless you owe Big OIL
All science points to petroleum oil in the marine micro layer.......which all the facts point to, bingo !
Grist posters still rattle on about the fraudulent greenhouse gases science... but I suppose it is one step beyond total denial, but sadly equally fatal, maybe even more so.
At least those in denial are protecting the status quo to some degree by non interference in the opposing forces at play.
Whereas those seeking changes based on fraudulent science will only exacerbate the Global Climate Change problem.
But when it comes down to the bottom line, all these players are in total denial. Here there and everywhere.
see y'all, Now I am going driving in the beautiful sunshine in my SUV......... but first I will change the oil and dump the used oil in the bush, eh !
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julimac Posted 7:49 am
26 Feb 2007
Jerry Falwell
Just wondering since the religiously devout are increasingly being won over to the faith based argument to protect the planet if folks like the good Rev. are beginning to lose a lot of money. Sounds like cry of desperation to me.
Julimac
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Biodiversivist Posted 8:13 am
26 Feb 2007
Jerry will come around when the rent is due
but what I want to know is, how did Grist get a picture of him on the crapper?
In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world
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Sam Wells Posted 8:56 am
26 Feb 2007
Mythical Fallwell
Tens of thousands of scientists with masters and doctoral degrees are wrong? Anthropogenic sources of global warming are a myth? Who makes this stuff up, anyway?
Let me say that Jerry Falwell is a very sick person and has to have some serious drugs to moderate his behavior. If you hadn't noticed, every twice a year he blathers another idiocy that even his own camp can't defend.
That said, his very name packs some heat and many of the blind sheep follow him into the woods, for whatever reasons.
I always wanted to ask Rev. Gerald Mann of Riverbend Baptist-Austin about Falwell and his lunatic antics. If you don't know, Willy Nelson and other celebs used to hang out with Gerald and he was a real cool guy that supported environmental causes. Unfortunately the man died before I/we could pop the question about global warming, but I'm sure Gerald would have a reasoned answer.
The Southern Baptist Convention has splintered away in many places, includeing Riverbend and a few massive churches in Dallas. The Convention insisted that no environmental cause be supported. The huge mega-churches basically said no.
I find it real conforting that tens of thousands of former Falwell ditto-heads are now in "our" camp. Falwell speaks for a very small sub-group now for a think tank, a good place to keep him until he cools his jets. /sammie
Onward through the fog
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Zarkov Posted 2:04 pm
26 Feb 2007
Stranger Than Fiction
LOL
>>> Tens of thousands of scientists with masters and doctoral degrees are wrong? >>
sadly that answer is 'yes'
>>> Data from visual observations (about 100,000) and chemical analyses of marine water samples (several thousands) from all regions of the world's oceans were analyzed. The presence of dissolved and emulsified oil hydrocarbons in surface waters in concentrations of up to several µg/l (and in regions of increased petroleum pollution - up to several mg/l) was revealed everywhere.
I wonder too, but then again its a mad mad mad world.
But you're not concerned at all, are you ?
LOL
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amazingdrx Posted 3:09 pm
26 Feb 2007
Only one
Entity controls the thermostat of planet earth! The Laaawd! If gaaawd almighty wants it warmer, who are we to question that?
Liberals in the service of satan are out to prevent the heavenly warming from gaaaawd, a gift to humanity!
http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog
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contentsunderpressure Posted 2:57 am
27 Feb 2007
Jerry Falwell on global warming-its a myth
Well if anyone knows about myths,he's the go to guy on that.He's made a fortune propagating the largest and most successful myth ever foisted upon humanity
Laugh when you can,life is to important to be taken seriously
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