Expert on heat. Flip-flopper.
Conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson said on Thursday the wave of scorching temperatures across the United States has converted him into a believer in 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.”
The 76-year-old Robertson told viewers that was “the most convincing evidence I’ve seen on global warming in a long time.”
The issue has divided conservative Christians.
Wow, Pat Robertson and I agree on something? Maybe the rapture IS coming!!
What in GOD’S name made him finally believe all the scientitsts in the world? Maybe now he will believe in Evolution too.
Global warming is a trend that is noticed over a period of years. One cannot see “evidence” of this trend based on a few days of record heat. Please someone quiet this man and his outspokeness on matters he clearly does not understand.
Seems like Hell froze over.
I don’t know which is worse: The religious nuts who will follow this guy’s logic, or the liberals who will consider this a victory.
Actually, I’m getting tired of all the crap about this summer’s heat being tied to global warming. I’m sure the lack of a major hurricane at this point in the season is tied to global warming, too, in some schmuck’s eyes.
Just because he is conservative, does not mean that he claimed it never was happening.
I thought the libs were against labling people, yet here is proof that they do it all the time if you are not one of them.
@#5: As I recall it, many “experts” agreed that Katrina and her siblings last year occured because of climate change. In fact there were predictions that far worse would occur this year. 😉
Is Pat bi-ploar? Some times he his lucid some times he is loon.
Number 6, RTFA. Robertson has claimed it was never happening.
Michael, I’m sure you’re a nice guy, but I’m calling him a nut… and I’m a card carrying member of The Right Wing Conspiracy (R).
Only label when it’s obvious.
I’d comment but I’m speechless
Seems like if the polar ice caps were melting we’d have some cool water to soak our burning feet in.
How interesting that highly respected statisticians have shown that the paleoclimatic community have been using bad math in their global warming arguments, yet this blog has never made mention of it.
But then, what do facts have to do with a good story?
“All the scientists in the world” implies that there is a unanimous agreement that global warming is happening, and that we are causing it, which is absolutely not true. In fact, John here has already posted articles which show that there is no consensus, and the left is trying to say something often enough until the action of saying it enough makes it true, which is irresponsible at the very least.
In this case, Pat Robertson is taking unscientific evidence: It’s been hot where he is for a while, and saying global warming must be real. Has he ever heard of the jet stream? It’s not always in the same place, and that’s not to say that suddenly because it has moved and he is feeling some heat that we have global warming.
Pat needs a NEW job.
I almost burst out laughing, earlier today, when I overheard a couple of my co-workers discussing Pat’s “conversion”…
1st: “When did Pat Robertson become a climatologist?!”
2nd: “… they are finding undersea volcanic-vent activity that is hotter than any previously discovered. The oceans are getting warmer due to that, not because of human activity…”
OMFG!
It isn’t volcanic vents, or fossil fuels, it is all the “hot air” we humans are spewing into the atmosphere… Evryone should just SHUT UP for a few minutes a day. [grin]
This summer’s hot weather has extremely little relationship with global warming. For the unknowing, todays weather is just that, today’s. Whereas, global warming is the average temperatures to increase over time. To judge global warming by the past couple of weeks is as foolish as judging all Christians by what what happens on Robertson’s TV show.
19 To judge global warming by the past couple of weeks is as foolish as judging all Christians by what what happens on Robertson’s TV show.
Amen to that, Brother!
Any time you find yourself using “all”, in reference to any group of people, you are probably wrong. 🙂
#20…Mike Voice….Ohhhhhh, is that so?
ALL Angleophiles like England!!!
So there!!!!!!!!!
20 #20…Mike Voice….Ohhhhhh, is that so?
1. No, joshua…you are #20
2. I take it you overlooked the word “probably” [grin]
#21….Mike Voice….well crap…now I can’t count or read numbers.
Pat Robertson is a necessary evil. He is an important tool (yea, I know) to help illustrate that every dogma has its’ own extreme rightwing nut jobs, and somehow these freaks are able to capture the hearts and minds of a group of followers. The sheep that follow these whacko’s are either intellectual sloths, or are mentally incapable of critical thinking.
All the arguments in the world, aren’t going to change the congregation’s mind. I’m convinced that the only way to ever convert the flock, is when they themselves start to realize how crazy their leader has become.
I’ve come to believe that the best way to handle Pat is to just set back and enjoy the show. I say, give him all the slack (rope) that you can, he’ll hang himself.
You have to admit that some of the stuff he says, is at least as funny as any of Steve Colbert’s jokes. Pat can say some of the craziest sh*t, and deadpan better than Steven Wright, the guy is a comic genius.
How ironic! This nut believes in God on the basis of faith and the word of a book but he has to actually personally “witness” the effects of extreme heat on his skin to believe in the evidence of global warming and the very strong science and logic behind it. These religious fools will definitely believe in something that is very unlikely true to “save themselves” but they need lots of obvious devastating type proof to believe in something that is likely true which will make it impossible to save anyone by reversing course once it is obvious enough to absolutely prove true with irrefutable evidence.
“Armageddon” is the self-fulfilling prophecy of stupid people, selfish people and people in denial. It’ll be too late by the time all these people come around especially since they’ll revert back to their original beliefs once the season changes and the “proof” becomes less obvious and apparent to them.
Now let me preach to you about the fact that I’m certain ‘the Easter bunny’ exists and his few rules that he wants us to follow including devoting useless hours of one way conversations with him and the reward system that goes with it. (No proof required here?…yet it’s accepted easily for the sake of being responsibly safe [in the afterlife]…go figure).
The world will start cooling off on Dec. 21, 2012. Meanwhile, I’m planting orange trees in Alaska.
Creationism and Global Warming – two peas in a pod.