Wow... lots of information flowing through now about how people are choosing to feign ignorance when it relates to humans impact on climate change. Now mind you, there is a question about the ** extent ** to which humans are affecting the climate -- but there is no question that we are indeed affecting the climate.
So when a school board bans the showing of "An Inconvenient Truth" because "Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He's not a schoolteacher," said Frosty Hardison, a parent of seven who also said that he believes the Earth is 14,000 years old. "The information that's being presented is a very cockeyed view of what the truth is. ... The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn't in the DVD."
My favorite response is:
"What the bleep do geologists know about climate history? Any self-respecting bible-reader knows that those bones that evolutionary biologists purport to show "evidence" that the world was not created in 6 days exactly 6,000 years ago were planted in the ground by the Devil to lead humanity into thinking that the world is really old--like billions and billions of years old. Similarly, the Devil has been tweaking the knobs of innocent, hard-working people who are puzzling over this climate thing, messing up their temperature measurements and creating mirages that make it look like the ice sheets are melting, when really they're not. After all, how many regular church-going, god-fearing folk have actually been to Antarctica and Greenland and places like that? They are much too busy home-schooling their kids and going to bible study classes to be gallivantin' off to those crazy places that are still quite cold, thank you very much. And besides, if climate change is really real and the seas rise, sinful, Babylon-like cities like New York and Seattle will get inundated just like they deserve to be, while godly places like Kansas will stay high and dry."
Ok - so that's actually a cynic's response to the Federal Way, Washington's school board... but you can read the article at http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/299253_inconvenient11.html
I assure you the truth is almost as amazing.
On another, related note a quite interesting report came out -- apparently very recently, as it's dated January 2007 -- "Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air: How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco’s Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science" available at
http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/global_warming/exxon_report.pdf If I thought it was appropriate to swear on a blog, I'd be doing it right now. Unbelievable!
All these things lead me to wonder... so many things. It seems as if we have on the one hand people who are so unbelievably ignorant as to what's going on in the world, while on the other hand we have people who are so arrogant... and there aren't many people in the middle who are willing to bridge the two groups. Unfortunately I far too often fall in one of these two camps, and not in the middle where I'm needed... but I'm working on it. Hope you are, too!
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