Secondly,
CC alarmists heap untenable burdens onto ecologically sound nations while poorer
nations (including, ironically, rising super-power, China) are exempted from addressing
their sorely deficient practices. Yet if
CCAs sincerely believe we have but a decade before reaching our ecological “point
of no-return,” then common sense would urge redirecting our focus to cleaning up
the practices of the latter now! While
it makes sense then for richer nations to financially assist poorer ones, it is
absurd to post-pone redressing the latter’s ecological inadequacies by waiting fully
a decade later.
Thirdly,
global warming alarmists are purchasing beach front homes for themselves even as
they persist in warning that such property will soon be buried under water.[1]
Fourthly,
in the absence of outcry by either academics (who generally prefer left-leaning
causes) or the media who encourage the same, my hometown of Seattle recently re-placed
its viaduct with an underwater tunnel along its harbor that has an entrance at close
to tidal level. How does that make sense
at all in the face of rising sea-levels?
These points indicate that
the driving force of their agenda isn’t neglect, but outright hypocrisy.
I
fully understand that no one (myself included) lives in a manner completely consistent
with one’s convictions. Yet this paper highlights
a disconnect within the CC front that is far deeper than commonplace human fallibility. It instead entails a willful neglect of vital
evidence such as is in glaring violation of the scientific method. The true impetus
of the charge CCAs herald rests on suppressing counter-evidence of a kind that
is game-changing.[2] This tactic
is so intellectually dishonest; it should compel any competent judge to throw
it out. For despite posing to be scientific,
their case is framed not by a scientific spirit, but on an ideology porten-ding
to be science, so as to advance an unnamed agenda which cannot be justified by science. For example, it is a matter of demonstrable
fact that financial rewards are showered onto CCAs and “green” industrialists, but
withheld from CC “deniers” who are instead censored and belittled. It is on this pseudo-scientific basis that
uninformed people are thereby needlessly alarmed.[3]
A far better motivation for properly caring
for our ecological world has already been mandated in the Holy Bible (Genesis
1:28; 2:15), which is grounded not in fear, but in the context of reverent stewardship
built upon an enthusiastic trust in our Maker and Redeemer.
For
this reason, it is imperative for principled scientists to rise up in protest over
this deception in order that the integrity which ought to guide all scientific
research be restored! Furthermore, it is
urgent for the rest of us to discipline ourselves to discern between truth and
falsehood to the end that we govern ourselves in accordance with truth as
opposed to hysteria.
[2] The scientific method insists that every hypothesis be
submitted to the scrutiny of all relevant evidence in a welcoming spirit.
[3] Lay people groundlessly fear not only ultimate planetary
death, but the depletion of forests, water, and other species. Op.cit (7).
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