Falwell: Those drawing attention to global warming want to economically destroy America

[RedEarth]

Joining a brain trust that boasts such members Stone Age Senator James Inhofe and TV game show host Pat Sajak, conservative Christian Reverend Jerry Falwell has spoken out on global warming, proclaiming it ... you guessed it ... a "myth." (You should really watch the linked news segment. It must be seen to be believed.)

He says blah blah global cooling in the '70s blah blah natural cycle, but the best part is where he uncovers the nefarious secret agenda of the global warming crowd. To wit:


Those drawing attention to global warming want to economically destroy America, because ... uh ... they just do.
Moreover, they want to distract attention from the fact that the world -- the whole world! -- is morally bankrupt.
Worse yet, they want to redirect the church's focus, distracting it from its core mission of hating Teh Gay.
Falwell notes that the connection between CO2 and warming is "the greatest deception in the history of science" -- presumably greater than biologists' deception about evolution and geologists' deception about the age of the earth. You just can't turn your back on those lyin' scientists!

PS, Falwell acknowledges he's not a scientist, but he's taken a few years to study the issue, so don't go questioning his credentials on this matter.

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/2/26/102417/442

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Pssst, Jerry, the great economy is nose-diving today.

[Johonny]

2. I think it hurts the economy

when Americans send large amounts of money to people that provide very little if no service and then take this money tax free and add it to their personal wealth.

[BOSSHOG]

3. Global Warming is a myth but Leviticus

is rock solid proof that we should hate gays??? I thought those million year old fossils were the greatest hoax perpetrated on human kind. When will it ever end? Oh the humanity.

jerry's not a scientist but he plays one from the pulpit when the lemmings need to have their hate energized.

[Beelzebud]

4. The religious right had better watch picking fights with scientist about "myths".

Seems to me their whole belief system is based on myths.

Do they really want people pointing a scientific eye at what constitutes myths?

[Cha]

5. What a fucking cowering little assbite

of warthog. Those trying to disavow Global Warming MIGHT WANT TO BE DESTROYING THE PLANET.

So watch out for blabbers like foulwell cause he prolly is.."trying to destroy the Planet".

[hippiechick]

6. What. The. Fuck. ??

:wtf: :freak: :hurts: :shrug:

That makes abso-fucking-lutely no sense whatsoever.
(Not like he ever does ...)

[Cabcere]

7. And those who disregard the evidence behind global warming

and try to deny its existence want to ecologically destroy the entire Earth. :mad: Thanks for playing Jerry, come back when you get a clue.

[Bobbieo]

8. Bush is already destroying America.

He needs no help from Global Warming!!!

[Bluzmann57]

9. One misstatement in there

Well, way more than one, but in the first sentence, the word(s) "braintrust" was used. I am far from being the smartest guy in the world, but I can't understand how thousands of scientists can all be wrong. And as far as wanting to "destroy the economy", I'd rather see a great economy with good paying jobs all around. But that's probably wrong, since I am a heathen bastard.

[iconoclastic cat]

10. Because Jesus wants you to have money to give to Jerry. nt

[sakabatou]

11. Hey, Jerry!

[kwolf68]

12. I would like to invite

Mr. Falwell to produce his own research, his own data, his own conclusions. Instead of name-calling, brow-beating and other hysteria I would like to see his peer-review work of these scientists.

Im sick of the politics surrounding science goddamnit...show us YOUR EVIDENCE Fallwell...DISCOUNT the hypothesis of the scientists who say global warming is real, is happening, and is caused by humanity. PROVE IT WRONG...unlike your dogmatic belief system Mr. Falwell, science WELCOMES dissent, however, the dissent MUST be fact based.

If it's a hoax, let's see your data.

[texastoast]

13. Liar

HE wants to protect vested interests. What the blind fools don't want us to know about is how much money can be made in conversion to alternative energy. Tons of new opportunities for those old dinosaurs now seemingly entrenched with the fossils.

Undeservedly, you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

-Horace

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. Man, I thought Pat Sajak was dead.

[kwolf68]

16. Is Pat Sajak ...

part of the Hollywood elite? What are his credentials on climate?

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. There's a letter-turning joke in this somewhere, but I can't find it.

[kwolf68]

22. Maybe it is this

It's a 4 letter word for Pat Sajak

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T O O L

[GreenPartyVoter]

23. lol

[GreenPartyVoter]

20. Dupage

[Dr.Phool]

28. Just brain dead

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. I think the naysayers need to be left in a remote are where

climate change is the worst. Maybe in a drought stricken spot in Oz?

[Initech]

17. Sorry Jerry, no theocratic government for you!

[sweetheart]

18. america and the petro-warmongers are not the same

Odd that he thinks them the same... must be that way in his cult.

[RiverStone]

21. Falwell's head is so far up his...

posterior that he knows not myth from fact, fantasy from fiction, truth from lies.

He drank the kool-aid many years ago. It's amazing anyone listens to the gibberish he spews forth. :shrug:

:crazy: = Falwell

[flakey_foont]

24. Wanker

[kwolf68]

25. Sooooo

On one side we have the greatest scientists in the world, who are dedicated to peer-review research, whose LIVES are based in scientific exploration.

and on the other side

A whacked-out charlatan, a boob politician, and a game-show host.


You know...we may be in trouble here.

[MadHound]

26. What this idiot fails to realize

Is that a "Green Revolution" could be the next big economic wave to ride, much like the tech boom in the ninties. And the great thing about such a wave is that it would be, in part, renewable and ongoing. If corporate America got behind it, the economy would be through the roof.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

27. Translation: Send me more money so you can go to heaven where it's nice & cool.

[Dr.Phool]

29. Now there's a real think tank for ya.

Falwell, Inhofe, and Sajac.

[ProfessorGAC]

30. Everyone Knows This

It's patently obvious that one cannot care about the environment and still have a self-preservation instinct. :sarcasm:

[tsuki]

31. You have to understand that after spending years to cultivate

a "culture of futility" in the Christian church, global warming threatens to cause people to come together with faith, hope and charity. Falwell fears his own marginalization.

[mnhtnbb]

32. Blah blah blah blah blah... Falwell's full of hot air.