Re: [asa] Religious Groups Differ on Climate Change

There is also a review of an earlier version of this paper on RealClimate at

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/10/how-not-to-attribute-climate-change/#more-351

Burgy

On 4/25/09, William Hamilton <willeugenehamilton@gmail.com> wrote:
> I promised a review of Scafetta et. al.'s work on my blog. It's now
> up: http://www.bricolagia.blogspot.com/
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:21 AM, William Hamilton
> <willeugenehamilton@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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>> Member American Scientific Affiliation
>> Austin, TX
>> 248 821 8156
>>
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