More snipping there than a busy day at a vastectomy clinic.

Nationwide Climate ‘Preach-In’ To Target Broad Faith-Group Congregations

An upcoming national climate change ‘Preach-In’ is part of a series of climate communications activities aimed at informing and enlisting involvement of faith groups and individual congregations in addressing climate change.

[Check out the snipped BS]

Religious Tenets ‘Compelling’ Action on Climate

In that same Interfaith video, Rabbi Melanie Aron, of Congregation Shir Hadash, in Los Gatos, Ca., equates a do-nothing approach to climate change to a person’s sitting by a pool and reading while a child in sight is drowning. “You would be seriously condemned,” she says, “but today, many of us are standing idly by while the lives of the children of the future are being seriously threatened.”

[More astounding BS, then....]

Science/Religious Differences Bridged by Common Values

NRPE acknowledges on its site frequent differences between religion and science, but says “stewardship, justice, protection of the weak, inter-generational duty, and prudence are universal values when responsible scientific study has identified grave risk.”

Anderson said he regrets that climate change “is often portrayed as a scientific or political debate.” Instead, he and the NRPE members see it as “a fact of life,” and one requiring moral and ethical responses. That “compels us to respond to climate change,” Anderson said.

[Yet more BS and finally.....]

‘Skeptics’ Also Targeting Faith Groups

Organizations and interests deeply concerned about climate change and its impacts are not the only ones reaching out to faith groups. A distinctly different take comes from the climate-contrarian Cornwall Alliance, headquartered in Virginia, not far from Washington, D.C.

Using some of the same wording, biblical passages, and emotional tugs — the future of our children, concern for the poor, equity — this group reaches radically different conclusions. It holds, for instance, that “Earth and its ecosystems — created by God’s intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence — are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting, admirably suited for human flourishing, and displaying His glory. Earth’s climate system is no exception.”

“We deny that carbon dioxide — essential to all plant growth — is a pollutant,” the group says, maintaining that efforts to control CO2 emissions would cost far more than the benefits might justify. Warning of what it calls “one of the greatest deceptions of our day,” the group speaks darkly of a need for “resisting the green dragon.”

http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/2012/02/nationwide-preach-in-targets-broad-faith-group-congregations/

Methinks the National Religious Partnership for the Environment (NRPE) has as its godhead, a “green dragon”

But that’s all a bit tame really, Hot Topic regulars are blazing new frontiers of hyperbole. Their latest tranche will be hard to top but I wonder where they can go with it now?

Painting, Taylor et al are apparently in some kind of contest to out-hyperbolize each other – Taylor leading the pack at the moment with “nuclear holocaust”.

The other contest being smear associations – Taylor leading that one too with “rent boys”.

Phew..

You are right, Andy, there is really no comparison, as rent boys merely engage in honest prostitution that harms no-one (one hopes).

You and your fellow intellectual prostitutes, however, are helping drive all humanity into a world of suffering, war and want.

You and the likes of the NZ Climate Scam Coalition are working assiduously to bring about an inexorable but unnecessary tragedy that will be much like Hitler’s dreams of a “Thousand Year Reich”, only worse.

What would you do if you had a conscience, Andy?
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My response – hilarious!!

“If the Model Mean Continues To Diverge From The Observations, How Many Years are Required Until The Models Can Be Said to Have Failed?”

- Bob Tisdale

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