The news that Pat "700 Club" Robertson finally admits that climate change is something to worry about is a few days old, but I thought it worth mentioning.
His Road to Damascus conversion is all the more remarkable when this quote, when you recall that
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.
Contrast that with last week's declaration:
"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 U.S. 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."
Yes it is sad but true: isolated weather events that we can't definitely link to large climate patterns will always do more to change minds than research and numbers, even when they're assembled into dramatic graphs and charts.
Oh well.
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...says Pat Robertson while completing a 2000 lbs. leg lift.
Hopefully Pat won't change his mind if the east coast has a cold winter....
This reminds me of a rant about ozone holes and global warming by Rex Murphy (a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation curmudgeon) in the mid 1990s, during an unusually chilly winter in eastern North America. Rex asked if anyone had stopped to think whether "the hole in the ozone layer might actually be letting in a draft." I think he was kidding.