Questioning the hype about 'global warming'

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Questioning the hype about 'global warming'

Pete Chagnon
One News Now
Thursday, May 15, 2008

In a recent speech, GOP presidential candidate John McCain attempted to distance himself from President George Bush on the controversial subject of "manmade climate change."

In a much-anticipated speech, Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) laid out his plans to combat manmade climate change. McCain detailed his support for a carbon cap and trade system, and stated that instead of debating the extent and timeline of global warming, he plans to deal with the "central facts of rising temperatures, rising waters, and all the endless troubles that global warming will bring."

McCain also chided President Bush by stating that he will not "permit eight long years to pass without serious action on serious challenges." Many believe that criticism is due to Bush's refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocol.

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Dr. E. Calvin Beisner is the national spokesman for the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, an organization made up of scientists and theologians dedicated to taking a biblical approach to the environment. He believes the Kyoto Protocol is an "ill-conceived document" -- and says even most of its defenders will admit that as well.

"They will admit that even if there had been full compliance with it [by the end of this century] by all the nations in the world ... it would have only reduced global average temperature by two-tenths of one degree Fahrenheit -- which is not even detectable physically," says Beisner. "It's just a statistical artifact in the mathematical models of climate."

The U.S. was right not to sign the Kyoto Protocol, he adds, explaining his stance. "Our position is that recent and foreseeable climate change has been, and will be, largely natural in cause," argues Beisner. "[We believe] that it's not likely to be catastrophic, [and] that human influence is minute."

Although Beisner states that the Cornwall Alliance will not endorse or condemn any political candidates, he says that plans to deal with alleged climate change that impose carbon limits will only undermine economic development in poor countries and the United States.

Beisner is among a group of Christian conservative leaders who question what they call "the hype about global warming" and who are releasing an environmental statement today. The document, titled "We Get It," is to be released at a news conference in Washington, DC. Organizers say it will seek to "unite Christians around biblical stewardship and against environmental hype that threatens the poor."

They say the statement is endorsed by leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, the Family Research Council, the Institute on Religion and Democracy, members of the U.S. House and Senate, and dozens of pastors and theologians.