PART 2
The “Gods” of Climate
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released data showing that, from January to July, the average global temperature was 58.1 degrees. That was 1.22 degrees over the average from the 20th century, and the highest since 1880, when reliable records began. Although, NOAA experts say global climate change isn’t the only reason 2010 has been so hot—an El Nino event earlier in the year pushed temperatures up.
David A. Fahrenthold, The Washington Post, August 14, 2010
At a gathering held during the climate summit of spiritual leaders from Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, and other traditions, I asked those in the audience to listen to the voice of the Source as it spoke through the leaders assembled… . They reinforced my view that these spiritual values, more than science and data, might be the basis for true human partnership among our leaders to achieve their ultimate objectives and avoid the cataclysms of melting polar ice, vanishing permafrost and glaciers.
Wangari Maathai, 2004 recipient of the Nobel
Peace Prize
and the United Nations’ “Messenger of Peace”
More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crisis until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.
Lynn White, U.C. Berkeley professor,
from a 1967 article in Science
The filling of a spiritual vacuum by environmentalism creates an ever greater spiritual vacuum. The environmental religion based on climate change catastrophism is itself a catastrophe that we inflict upon ourselves at huge intellectual, moral, spiritual, and economic cost.
Dr. Ian Plimer, award-winning professor in the
School of Earth
and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia