Comments on: Global Warming: Finally Getting Hot? http://www.attackofthemonkey.com/blog/2007/02/02/global-warming-finally-getting-hot/ Science News ... Monkey Spin Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:02:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Jim http://www.attackofthemonkey.com/blog/2007/02/02/global-warming-finally-getting-hot/#comment-194 Jim Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:18:16 +0000 http://www.attackofthemonkey.com/blog/2007/02/02/global-warming-finally-getting-hot/#comment-194 What a coincidence. <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/05/warming-13-percent/" rel="nofollow">Only 13% of congressional Republicans believe the evidence supporting man-made global warming</a>. I guess they're pandering to the imbeciles mentioned above. <em>... if we don’t act fast to reverse the damage we’ve done, we’ll be sacrificing the habitability of our planet - something which we should all agree is hugely important.</em> Actually, Christian fundamentalists (people who are getting disproportionate representation in our government) tend not to follow the biblical "Good Shepard" approach toward our environment. Instead they'd rather follow the <em>equally</em> biblical "Rapture" approach, which requires no guilt for destroying the environment because, well, Armageddon is coming soon anyway. What a coincidence. Only 13% of congressional Republicans believe the evidence supporting man-made global warming. I guess they’re pandering to the imbeciles mentioned above.

… if we don’t act fast to reverse the damage we’ve done, we’ll be sacrificing the habitability of our planet - something which we should all agree is hugely important.

Actually, Christian fundamentalists (people who are getting disproportionate representation in our government) tend not to follow the biblical “Good Shepard” approach toward our environment. Instead they’d rather follow the equally biblical “Rapture” approach, which requires no guilt for destroying the environment because, well, Armageddon is coming soon anyway.

]]> By: Christian http://www.attackofthemonkey.com/blog/2007/02/02/global-warming-finally-getting-hot/#comment-195 Christian Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:57:16 +0000 http://www.attackofthemonkey.com/blog/2007/02/02/global-warming-finally-getting-hot/#comment-195 I hadn't seen the "very likely" news story ... oddly enough, I got carried away with the NASA Attempted Murder news. (You should post about it! Well, I guess this isn't a science gossip blog, but what the heck.) But anyway, here's the global warming story (From the ABC News ad on your sidebar!): http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GlobalWarming/wireStory?id=2843292 And here's the NASA story ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070206/ts_nm/usa_astronauts_dc_11 I hadn’t seen the “very likely” news story … oddly enough, I got carried away with the NASA Attempted Murder news. (You should post about it! Well, I guess this isn’t a science gossip blog, but what the heck.)

But anyway, here’s the global warming story (From the ABC News ad on your sidebar!): http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GlobalWarming/wireStory?id=2843292

And here’s the NASA story …
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070206/ts_nm/usa_astronauts_dc_11

]]> By: Jim http://www.attackofthemonkey.com/blog/2007/02/02/global-warming-finally-getting-hot/#comment-196 Jim Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:42:04 +0000 http://www.attackofthemonkey.com/blog/2007/02/02/global-warming-finally-getting-hot/#comment-196 To elucidate my point above, <a href="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/cal_thomas/2007/02/_there_is_a_certain.html" rel="nofollow">here's a good example of the Christian fundamentalist approach to global warming and environmentalism in general</a> (the fifth paragraph especially). To elucidate my point above, here’s a good example of the Christian fundamentalist approach to global warming and environmentalism in general (the fifth paragraph especially).

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