Hilary put me onto A Tangled Web which now goes onto the "political" section of my blogroll. Just to be clear: I do not endorse such blogs, just find them interesting and occasionally helpful.
Have a look at the post "The Great Manmade Global Warming Hoax Unravels" with the email from the President of the American Council On Renewable Energy threatening to campaign against the professional integrity of someone who dared to question current orthodoxy regarding global warming. There is more information at the website of the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
So what has this to do with a religious blog? Well, as Pope Benedict sensibly advised us in his Regensburg address, threats and violence should not be used in the service of religious proselytism. And global warming hysteria increasingly looks like religious proselytism.
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What will be even more to the point will be the Holy Father's remarks at World Peace Day (formerly the Circumcision!) on New Year's Day, warning that 'any solutions to global warming must be based on firm evidence and not on dubious ideology'. Cardinal Pell, on the other hand, has been just superb.
I am one of those who does not fall for this global warming lunacy. I am unhappy with the change in government in my country (Australia). My own State (Western Australia) is the one State which bucked the trend and actually increased its seats in favour of the previous government. We are also the State which is pushing the rest of the country ahead. We are now in for all the trendy nostrums afflicting the non-religionists' religion. After the (Bali)hoo of the last couple of weeks we now have the agonised outcry against mankind's greatest evil which is hunting whales. I don't suppose that I will ever get to Japan but if I did, then one of the first dishes I would want to try would be a plate of whalemeat.
JARay
'Go ahead, guy. Take me on'.
Mike - President of the American Climate Whatyoumicallit.
So this is scientific argument in the 21st Century. Believe my theory or else!
Whatever happened to real science and open debate in the scientific societies BACKED UP BY FACTS.
No - today's 'science' is based on media frenzy, who has the most money and who can be bought. The science be damned! Crazy.
My kids come home from school terrified by global warming..i keep telling them there are more polar bears than ever!
I would argue that another religious link to this is that those who espouse global warming think that the Almighty is so stupid that he designed the earth in such a way that some human caused C02emissions could destroy it, which is tantamount to Blasphemy
I received a Christmas Card today, which said "Have a Green Christmas". I did deliberately buy some flown in asparagus from Tescos later on, to make up for it. I know, it was a very bad thing to do.
You may be interested to know that following some study of the topic myself I have recently posted information about global warming and climate change which readers might find interesting. This is of course Fr.Mildews Blog obtainable by direct link from here. Also I have written a kind of updated version of a Christmas Carol with Scrooge in his office in Canary Wharf
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