South Dakota War College has a post on Representative Stephanie Sandlin’s flip-flopping in regard to the Kyoto protocol. And Kevin Woster of the Rapid City Journal has been defending Sandlin from the accountability of the internet:
U.S. Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin is taking some shots for her recent global-warming sojourn with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Germany, Great Britain, Belgium and Greenland.
The trip seemed reasonable enough, considering the importance of the issue and all the trips other congressionals have taken. But some folks are calling it a waste of money and time in a cause that has questionable merit.
Blog criticism and back-channel comments have a similar tone and style. And rumor has it some anti-Herseth special-interest groups are or will be running ads on the issue East River?
And Woster continued defending Sandlin with statements from Governor Rounds:
Gov. Mike Rounds, a man not normally ranked among the wild-eyed environmental extremists, told the Associated Press that most people agree that the climate is changing. The issues facing South Dakota now, Rounds said, is to determine how humans can slow down that process of change and respond to it.
To which I said:
The idea that man is above God? That is typical humanist thought. I will argue all day long on that.
Of course this sparked responses from the anti-God left. But one said that there are Christians who are on board with this movement:
Evangelical leaders have begun to come around to the issue of global warming and released a statement.
http://www.christiansandclimate.org/statement
They recognize global warming is real, induced by humans, will have serious impacts, and requires action be taken now.
The above link is to a the "Evangelical Climate Initiative". I found this background information on this movement:
My friend Justin Taylor sent me an article this morning discussing the Evangelical Climate Initiative. Concerned Women for America has done the legwork and found something quite surprising and disturbing. "A new effort to mobilize evangelical Christians on the problem of global warming received $475,000 from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, one of the top funders of abortion programs in the United States and abroad."
Sure enough, a couple of Google searches turn up evidence that the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has given significant amounts of funding to organizations that stand opposed to Christian values.
They go on to detail pro-abortion causes including Planned Parenthood. I also found this in yesterday’s Amanda Carpenter column:
There was even discussion of a religious program that sells carbon offsets. The Evangelical Climate Initiative, a nonprofit 501(c)(3), offers tax-deductible carbon offsets for $99 per year through a program called "Cooling Creation." Their website states that 93 percent of the carbon offset "donations" submitted "goes directly to offsets, climate change education and outreach."
Historian David Burton, summoned to the panel by Sen. Inhofe and named one of the "Twenty-five Most Influential Evangelicals in America" by Time Magazine, commented on these various campaigns: "The next time we see Jesus, He will be driving neither a Hummer nor a Hybrid."
Burton suggested that Boxer was exaggerating the religious community’s support for liberal environmentalism. "The Scriptures teach conservation, not preservation," he said. "Man was the steward of nature and environment, and while man definitely is to tend and guard it, it is to serve him, not vice versa. From the beginning, God warned about elevating nature and the environment over man and his Creator."
And here is a report on how the United Nation’s Kyoto Protocol’s carbon credit program has been a rip off:
While this EU market has failed to make any serious impact on climate change, the UN's Clean Development Mechanism has done little better. In contrast to the EU system, which sells permits to produce supposedly limited quantities of greenhouse gases, the CDM sets up projects which are supposed to reduce the quantity of greenhouse gases and then sells carbon credits which allow buyers to emit more gases.
Ten years after the idea was launched at Kyoto; six years after the guidelines were drawn up at Marrakech; a year and a half after it finally went to work: the CDM thus far has issued only 50m tonnes of certified emissions reductions to offset global warming: Britain produces more emissions than that in a single month.
There are doubts about the validity of some of these CERs, on two separate grounds. First, some of them appear to breach the CDM's requirements for sustainable development - 53% of the existing CERs come from just six monster projects, in India, China and South Korea, all of which engage in the most controversial form of carbon reduction. They manufacture refrigerant which produces as a side effect a gas called HFC-23. Although carbon dioxide is the most common greenhouse gas, HFC-23 is 11,700 times more likely than carbon dioxide to encourage global warming. Refrigerant companies find it relatively cheap to instal an incinerator to burn the HFC-23 and, once that is converted into certified reductions of emission, each tonne saved can be sold as 11,700 carbon credits. These companies are now earning millions of euros from these credits - more than from selling their refrigerant products.
The environmental problem is two-fold, first that HFC factories tend to pour out other pollutants which don't happen to be greenhouse gases but which are unpleasant or dangerous for local communities; and second, that the potential profits from burning HFC-23 are so great that companies are being encouraged to expand production of refrigerants so they can produce more HFC-23 to incinerate, thus increasing the net amount of pollution.
Secondly, as our front-page story today reports, there is evidence that a significant percentage of current and future CDM reductions, possibly as many as 20%, may have been wrongly checked. This effects not just the 50m tonnes of CERs which have been issued already, but a massive quantity which is sitting in the pipeline as a result of hedge funds pouring an estimated €4,000m into high-profit carbon projects.
So we have a so-called Christian movement promoting a corrupt United Nations program. The Carpenter column provides us with more insight of the Democrat’s religious environmentalism:
Once she wrested control of the Senate’s Environmental and Public Works Committee from conservative stalwart Sen. Jim Inhofe (R.-Okla.), Sen. Barbara Boxer (D.-Calif.) was expected to aggressively pursue legislation to combat global warming. What wasn’t expected was that she would do it with blessings from the Church.
Last Thursday, Boxer held a hearing that highlighted the growing role of religion in liberal political campaigns--particularly in the name of "environmental justice." There, a coalition of 35 religious denominations called for an 80 percent reduction in global warming emissions by the year 2050, and bill S.309, sponsored by Boxer and avowed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I.-Vt.), calls for the same.
"Evangelical Christians, Catholics, African Methodist Episcopals, Jews, mainline Protestant Christians, and many other people of faith see the need for action on global warming as a moral, ethical and scriptural mandate," Boxer said.
She explained, "People of faith contacted us recognizing that science says global warming’s effects will fall most heavily on poor people. All we have to do is look at what happened during [Hurricane] Katrina, even in one of the world’s wealthiest countries."
On behalf of the National Council of Episcopal Churches, which claims to represent 45 million Americans, Episcopal Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said, "Faith communities, in the area of global warming, are increasingly of one mind that action is needed." She pled with her "colleagues in the faith community [who] doubt the urgency of addressing global warming," saying: "I urge you to reconsider for the sake of God’s good earth."
Among the religious communities supporting the emissions cuts were: the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the National Council of Churches USA, PAX Christi USA, the Union for Reform Judaism and Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.
The list of organization should look familiar to you. They are the same list that promotes abortion through the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, who is a coalition member with the American Humanist Association. These are humanists in Christian clothing. False prophets. They are part of the New World Order movement that wants to destroy true Christianity and replace it with a one world government. No wonder socialists like Bernie Sanders are on board.
And not only is Representative Sandlin in bed with these humanists in regard to promoting abortion, she is now in bed with them on the global warming issue. Hardly a centrist position.
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