Pat Robertson and Global Warming

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I don't know if anyone has seen this yet, but I found it interesting. I mean, I'm not ready to jump on The 700 Club fan site, but it is nice to see people waking up, even if it's just a little bit.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-08-03T225820Z_01_N03438084_RTRUKOC_0_US-ROBERTSON.xml&archived=False

By Timothy Gardner

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson said on Thursday the wave of scorching temperatures across the United States had converted him into a believer in global warming.

The view put him at odds with fellow Republican President George W. Bush, who has benefited politically from Robertson's backing and who has refused to embrace the concept of human-caused global warming.

"We really need to address the burning of fossil fuels," Robertson said on his "700 Club" broadcast. "It is getting hotter, and the icecaps are melting and there is a buildup of carbon dioxide in the air."



It was an abrupt about-face for Robertson who reaches about one million U.S. viewers daily and is credited for helping shape political views of evangelical Christians, a vibrant force behind the Republican Party.

Last October, Robertson said the National Association of Evangelicals was teaming up with "far left environmentalists" for saying global warming was caused by humans and needed to be mitigated.

Also last year, Robertson, 76, said natural disasters affecting the globe, including hurricanes Katrina and Rita that wrecked the U.S. Gulf Coast, might be signs that the biblical apocalypse was nearing.

Temperatures have soared to near record levels in some eastern regions and Robertson said that was "the most convincing evidence I've seen on global warming in a long time."

Most scientists link greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide emitted from the burning of fossil fuels to global warming that could lead to heat waves, stronger storms and flooding from rising sea levels.

Bush, himself an evangelical Christian, pulled out of the international Kyoto Protocol setting limits on emissions causing global warming soon after taking office in 2001 saying it would hurt the economy and unfairly favored developing countries.

(Reporting by Timothy Gardner, editing by David Storey; [phone], [e-mail]))

[Pharaoh]

1. He did'nt blame the gays this time!

my God their may be hope for the man.......

nnaaaaaaaaaaa! :party:

[Ian David]

3. Maybe he'll say Global Warming is caused by gay marriage, not CO2? n/t

[silverojo]

4. Robertson makes one little shred of sense?

I'm going to freakin' faint!

[Ian David]

2. Pat should get used to the heat. It's a lot hotter where he's going. n/t

[cboy4]

6. Good 1

;)

[cboy4]

5. He must be losing money in some business venture . . .

And furthermore, why can't he just pray away the global warming?

I thought these tele-evangelists were miracle workers??

[kestrel91316]

7. Pat has just taken one very small first step on the road to redeeming

himself for all the EVIL he has done.

Hey Pat: Make the fight against global warming your life's work from now until you die, and MAYBE, just maybe, you won't burn in hell forever.