So if you go from disbelieving something for stupid reasons to believing it for stupid reasons, does that make you actually right?
Conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson said 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.”
This week the heat index, the perceived temperature based on both air temperatures and humidity, reached 115 Fahrenheit in some regions of the East Coast. The 76-year-old Robertson told viewers that was “the most convincing evidence I’ve seen on global warming in a long time.”
[…] In October, Robertson, a former Republican presidential candidate, 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.
Except, of course, that this summer’s heat isn’t directly attributable to Global Warming. I mean, it’s not like in 2006 everyone’s roasting at 115 degrees, and next year it will be 125 degrees or something. And the problem is that if he uses this as his convincing proof, then if the temps only hit 100 next summer, will he start claiming the problem has been solved?
A longer transcript, and video, are here.
Of course, this may do more to discredit the whole idea of Global Warming than any sort of push-back of the Bush Administration. Heck, if Pat Robertson preached about the theory of gravity, I’d start to have my doubts about that, too …
(via J-Walk. Oh, and Les, too)
UPDATE: And it makes you wonder why the Lord didn’t warn him about the heat wave, too.
Do you suppose he saw An Inconvenient Truth? I mean, how would a fundiecrat like him go to that movie without causing a lot of fuss? Gore actually wants the apocalypse to not happen.