Re: [asa] Religious Groups Differ on Climate Change

Walter Williams is one of many conservative economists however he breaks the mold in that he is not white.

John

--- On Fri, 4/24/09, William Hamilton <willeugenehamilton@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: William Hamilton <willeugenehamilton@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [asa] Religious Groups Differ on Climate Change
> To: "Iain Strachan" <igd.strachan@gmail.com>
> Cc: "ASA List" <asa@lists.calvin.edu>, "Glenn Morton" <glennmorton@entouch.net>, "Gordon Simons" <gsimons@email.unc.edu>
> Date: Friday, April 24, 2009, 10:21 AM
> I think it has something to do with the fact that many
> evangelicals
> have embraced conservative economics. Walter Williams, a
> conservative
> economist, has written about global warming:
> http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/08/GlobalWarmingRope-A-Dope.htm
> I don't know Williams religious persuasion. Other
> conservative
> economists generally deplore doomsday theories (e.g. Julian
> Simon
> http://www.juliansimon.com/)
> Perhaps another factor is the belief that God is in control
> -- the
> world will end at time of God's choosing, not before,
> not after (Matt
> 24:36)
>
> For my part I wouldn't call myself an AGW skeptic, but
> before we adopt
> government-mandated solutions that require massive
> adjustments and may
> lead to extreme poverty in many parts of the world,
> we'd better know
> what we're talking about. One series of papers that
> makes me wonder if
> IPCC has considered all the evidence may be found in the
> work of
> Nicola Scafetta and his colleagues.
> http://www.fel.duke.edu/~scafetta/. The IPCC's
> arguments seem to be
> based primarily on the increase of atmospheric CO2 in the
> past
> century. They discount the solar irradiance as a factor
> because it
> varies by only 0.1 percent. However, Scafetta et. al.
> analyze the
> sun/earth heat propagation using stochastic resonance
> theory and find
> that there is indeed a resonance-like phenomenon that makes
> the solar
> contribution much greater than 0.1 percent. This does not
> negate
> global warming, but may establish that considerably more of
> it is due
> to solar irradiance than IPCC believes. Scafetta et.
> al.'s papers are
> not easy reading. However I have written a review that
> provides a
> road map through them, a first draft of which I will be
> glad to email
> to anyone interested. (I'll put it on my blog as soon
> as I can get
> around to editing some of the HTML I need)
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Iain Strachan
> <igd.strachan@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> http://scienceandreligiontoday.blogspot.com/2009/04/religious-groups-disagree-on-climate.html
> >
> >
> > See above from the Science and Religion Today Blog.
> >
> > It pretty much says what we already know, but I am
> puzzled, and perhaps
> > someone over your side can explain to me.  Why is it
> that white evangelical
> > protestants seem to have the biggest opposition to the
> notion that climate
> > change is caused by human activity?
> >
> > I can't see the connection with Christian
> belief.  I can understand why
> > fundamentalists oppose evolution & see it as a
> threat to their faith.  But
> > why climate change (in particular as caused by human
> activity)?
> >
> > Just a naive question that I hope someone can explain
> to me.
> >
> > Iain
> >
> >
> > --
> > -----------
> > Non timeo sed caveo
> >
> > -----------
> >
>
>
>
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