ChimpCo's Pet Evangelicals Cite "Unsettled" Science On Climate Change

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The statement frames environmental protection as a Christian imperative, fulfilling a biblical command to care for God's creation. It urges federal lawmakers to approve mandatory cuts in carbon dioxide emissions, but to do so in a way that doesn't hurt businesses. Among the funders of the initiative, which includes TV and print ads, is the Pew Charitable Charitable Trusts. "There's real momentum here," said the Rev. Jim Ball, head of the Evangelical Environmental Network, a leader of the climate initiative and a group perhaps best known for its clean-air campaign "What Would Jesus Drive?" "The debate is essentially over for us. We are no longer going to be denying the reality of the problem."

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However, Christian leaders with close ties to the Bush administration have expressed skepticism about the initiative through their own group, called the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance. They said in a statement that "the science is not settled on global warming," and argued that most U.S. evangelicals do not back the call for regulating greenhouse emissions.

Among the religious leaders who support the Stewardship Alliance are James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Charles Colson of Prison Fellowship Ministries and the Rev. Richard Land, head of the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant group.

The National Association of Evangelicals, which represents more than 50 denominations and millions of Christians, did not endorse the initiative, but former NAE leaders did. The Rev. Ted Haggard, current president of the group, also did not sign on. In January, the Stewardship Alliance had urged the NAE to refrain from taking an official position on the issue. But Haggard said in an interview that he personally supports cutting carbon dioxide emissions.

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http://www.nola.com/newsflash/national/index.ssf?/base/national-59/1139609372205650.xml&storylist=national

That last little quote reminds me of an Onion headline: "83% Of Americans Favor Increased Use Of Mass Transit By Others" :eyes:

[Lithos]

1. Bahh

Outside of a few extremists, science is settled on the idea of global warming, just not on some of the mechanisms. The same goes with evolution, where fundy's think that disagreement over particular mechanisms for evolution mean scientists are in dispute over evolution itself which certainly is not the case.

Stupid gits.

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[Vogon_Glory]

2. Team Shrub's Evangelicals Meet The Barrow Wights

Team Shrub's more reactionary evangelical allies remind me of the Barrow Wights in JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings Trilogy. The Barrow Wights' chant reminds me all too closely of guys like Land's, Colson's, and Dobson's REAL policy towards the environment:

"...In the black wind the stars will die, / And still on gold let them lie, / "Til the dark lord lifts his hand / Over dead sea and whithered land."

Right-wing ivory-tower evangelicals may not think that our land, air, and water isn't worth caring for, and the Banana Republicans richly deserve to be skewered for their association with their sort.

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3. Oh, so NOW the evangelicals get all scientific on us!

Right. I just never realized that televangelists were the watchdogs for rigorous science! A bulwark of skepticism! :eyes:

[Vogon_Glory]

4. Like Young Earth Geology Is Supposed To be REAL Science?

So we're supposed to believe that the Young Earth geological pseudo-science that creationists are also pushing is real science?

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