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From: Texas Freedom Network
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 10:38 AM
“This may seem a strange, possibly even unnecessary, subject to some. But I believe the Church must quickly get serious about denouncing the accelerating effort to promote the alleged catastrophic human-caused global warming.” – Jerry Falwell
The quote above is from an e-mail sent out by Pastor Falwell and the Moral Majority Coalition and Liberty Alliance to their constituents. The rest of this post below is a full, unaltered copy of that e-mail according to Texas Freedom Network:
E-MAIL FROM THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT
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Date: February 26, 2007
From: Moral Majority Coalition and Liberty Alliance
By: Jerry Falwell
Preaching Out Against “˜Global Warming’ Panic
This Sunday, February 25, I will preach a very unusual sermon. My topic: global warming.
This may seem a strange, possibly even unnecessary, subject to some. But I believe the Church must quickly get serious about denouncing the accelerating effort to promote the alleged catastrophic human-caused global warming.
This is especially true since some members of the evangelical community have recently aligned themselves with radical voices within the global warming movement. I see this as unnecessary and, worse, dangerous.
Now, I’m certainly not a scientist. But if one looks past the superficial reporting of the mainstream media and examines the many alternative scientific views on global warming, it is apparent that the earth frequently experiences warming and cooling trends. It appears to me — and I have been intently studying this subject — that we are now in a warming trend.
But many world scientists are preaching sermons that adamantly insist that man is the cause of recent warming trends. They urge that America sign on to the Kyoto Treaty, which would compel America to self-impose exorbitant policies for cutting back on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
The treaty, which many are urging America to sign, would immediately cost America an estimated $325 billion, according to Yale University’s William Nordhaus and Joseph Boyer. That’s a lot of money to spend on halting an unproven theory.
Meanwhile, Russia, India, China and Third World nations will not be required to sign on the dotted line.
Jack Langer, journalist and book editor for Regnery Publishing, recently wrote, “The real motives behind the entire global-warming hysteria are equally opaque. It surely isn’t science — Timothy Ball, the first Canadian Ph.D. in climatology, recently called global warming “˜the greatest deception in the history of science.’ Plenty of scientific research bears this out, from Bjorn Lomborg’s “˜The Skeptical Environmentalist’ to the newly released “˜Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years’ by physicist Fred Singer and economist Dennis Avery.”
The problem is that global warming has become a trendy issue of limousine liberals and Hollywood elitists, and the media is promoting it as virtual, if not substantive, fact.
Never mind that in November, for the second consecutive month, temperatures across the continental U.S. were cooler-than-average, according to scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center. We wouldn’t want facts like that to get in the way of a global warming political movement, would we!
The media frequently notes that the Union of Concerned Scientists is leading the charge to confront the out-of-control global warming advance. These scientists were recently described by writer Dennis Byrne as the “inexhaustibly liberal and self-appointed guardians of scientific purity [who] try to corrupt science for its own ends.”
But in today’s media, the Union is depicted as heroes of a just cause, tellers of truth in a war against evil American companies who want to destroy the world.
National Review Editor Rich Lowry recently reported: “Shock tactics inevitably mean simplifying in an area of unimaginable complexity. No one knows how to create a reliable model of the planet’s climate, and inconvenient anomalies muddy the story line of the warming zealots. From 1940 to 1975, the global temperature fell even as CO2 emissions rose. Since 2001, global temperatures have only gone up a statistically insignificant 0.03 degrees Celsius. And in recent years, the oceans have actually gotten cooler.”
In other words, there’s no need to panic.
Further, there’s no need for the Church of Jesus Christ to be wasting its time gullibly falling for all of this global warming hocus pocus. We need to give our total focus to the business of reaching this world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and stop running down meaningless rabbit trails that get our focus off of our heavenly purpose.