As President Bush resisted mandatory limits on carbon emissions at a G-8 summit in Germany yesterday, several U.S. religious leaders urged Congress to speedily enact such limits to avoid a catastrophic rise in global temperatures that would particularly hurt the poor.
But in sharply divided testimony before the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, some evangelical Protestant leaders took the opposite tack, also citing concern for the poor.
Trading the same admonitions from Jesus to protect “the least of these,” the climate-change activists said the poor would suffer most from extreme weather; skeptics of climate change said the poor would be hit hardest by the cost of shifting to cleaner energy sources.
Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church and a former oceanographer, argued that “global poverty and climate change are intimately related.”
So, Ms. Schori would claim that before the alleged human-caused climate change, there was no global poverty? She should get out more. Having humiliated her Church by claiming on PBS that David and Jonathan were gay lovers, she now proceeds to claim being an expert on global poverty and climatology.
Again, just remember all the “climate change” hacks are the same guys who can’t tell you with any degree of certainty whether its going to rain tomorrow or not. Not that I’m cynical, but climatology is clearly an emerging science with a long way to go. Not solid enough data to bet the house on.
KTF…mrb
And Global Warming restrictions are also going to KEEP a large number of people in poverty as they will keep needed industries, power plants, argicultural innovations (such as fertilizers and pesticides that will increase crop yields), etc out of areas that desperately need them.
Nobody expresses the situation with greater clarity than Czech President Václav Klaus, who, in an answers to questions from the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress, Committee on Energy and Commerce, stated:
Hey, KJS, how about observing the same separation of Church and State that you want conservatives to observe in regards to governmental policies?
As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, the medieval warm period was a time of greater prosperity especially for those on the bottom of society. If that was true then, it should be true again. Better crops, more reliable harvest, no late freezes, etc. Perhaps the marginal places that would suffer really should be encouraging folks to move to less marginal places. Would love to see Los Angeles shrink!
One thing not mentioned in most news services reports is that the Kyoto Protocol (KP) was dealt a death blow at the G-8 Summit: All member nations agreed to put off requirements called for in KP until 2050.