Pat Robertson Converts on 'Global Warming'

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(wstander @ Aug 3 2006, 09:00 PM) [snapback]297448[/snapback]</div>

speechless.

 

Putting the names "Rick Warren" and "Pat Robertson" together in the same news story is a little bit like putting "Albert Einstein" and "Elmer Fudd" in the same story.

IMHO, Robertson is a loon who got hot in the sun so he thinks the entire world is getting hotter. This winter he could change his mind completely.

Rick Warren is an intelligent, rational guy who has probably looked at the controversy and evaluated the findings, and is joining other sane, rational and logical people in agreeing that its an issue that needs to be removed from the political sphere and analyzed within the scientific sphere.

 

Who cares what that blowhard thinks?

One has to wonder if Global Warming is a sign off the Apocalypse, why Roberts thinks we should do something about Global Warming. Wouldn't that delay the Apocalypse? I'd think someone like Roberts would be looking forward to the end of the world, not trying to put it off. Of course, if I were Roberts and I knew what I'd be answering for when my name was called up yonder....I'd be trying to put it off as long as possible too.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(fshagan @ Aug 3 2006, 09:03 PM) [snapback]297495[/snapback]</div>

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/5/29/195855/959

 

Now I'm starting to doubt global warming :lol:.




(j/k, of course)

 

How disappointing. Couldn't we at least have a revelation ?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(EricGo @ Aug 4 2006, 10:53 AM) [snapback]297657[/snapback]</div>

LOL! Whodunnit this time?!

 

Wonder if Jerry Falwell brought this message to him from the purple gay telletubbie while Pat was leg pressing 2,000 lbs? Or maybe Oral Roberts sent the message to him between raising the dead and raising 8 million dollars so that God wouldn't "call him home". Looks like a buffet for squirrels (heavy on the nuts).




http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13027545/from/ET/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_Roberts

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Aug 3 2006, 09:09 PM) [snapback]297499[/snapback]</div>

Too many people unfortunately. Hopefully though his acceptance will get his followers to believe in global warming.

 

House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said he would oppose global warming mandates if Republicans control the 110th Congress. “I think the information is not adequate yet for us to do anything meaningful"

PLUS

Conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson said on Thursday the wave of scorching temperatures across the United States has converted him into a believer in global warming.

EQUALS

two dumb comments that pretty much cancel each other out.

 

Actually, I'm going to defend Pat on this one... his reasoning for supporting global warming is not sound... but if you look at the details he's actually not all that off.


Hot Summer Nights Getting Hotter
This is the most important link!
http://www.livescience.com/environment/ap_...hot_nights.html

Dairies seeing red after hot spell
Losses adding up after last week's record-breaking heat wave in stat
http://www.mercedsunstar.com/local/story/1...-13251098c.html

Increased Use of Air Conditioners to Produce More Greenhouse Gas
http://www.livescience.com/environment/060...ac_warming.html

July Heat Wave Could Set National Record
http://www.livescience.com/environment/060801_july_heat.html

It would not be so suspicious if it were just a regional thing... but it's quite widespread... IE in Europe and other places as well.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mirza @ Aug 4 2006, 10:36 AM) [snapback]297715[/snapback]</div>

This will hopefully be the driving force behind people starting to pull their heads out of the sand. A little personal pain is a great motivator. Like one of my drill sergeants used to say (and I really do agree with him) "the fastest way to the mind is through the body".

 

Increased awareness of the issue is a good thing. I'm just not sure that Pat Robertson's endorsement lends credibility to any cause.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TonyPSchaefer @ Aug 4 2006, 09:54 AM) [snapback]297724[/snapback]</div>

Evidence points to mercury impacting the brain - how would you tell it had an impact in this case?

:blink:

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Aug 3 2006, 10:40 PM) [snapback]297527[/snapback]</div>

Oh please ... can't you recognize "guilt by association" when you see it? This looks like a hit piece to me. To quote from the breathlessly written article:

"You are playing a real-time strategy video game whose creators are linked to the empire of mega-church pastor Rick Warren, best selling author of The Purpose Driven Life."

Really? How are these video game creators "linked" to Rick Warren? An Evangelical mind-meld? Are they Christians who have attended his church? Or, have they read his book (a NY Times best seller) and complimented him on it? Or, in the narrow minded bigotry of the article's author, do all Conservative Christians "look alike"? In the absence of any hint of explanation, the word "linked" means nothing.

Conservative Christians have been among the most vocal critics of violent video games (a concern I think is misplaced, but its there), with groups recommended economic boycotts, warnings from parenting groups like Focus on the Family, etc.

 

So, did he say something along the lines of, “the earth burneth with fire and brimstone, and the unbelievers shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.†:lol: