The local daily has an article about a Christian climatologist. Need one say more? One feels led to believe the field has moved from the epistemological to the metaphysical. I am Christian, therefore I don’t believe in man-made climate change (which used to be climate change, after it was global warming, and global cooling before that). The same goes for evolution. What’s the acceleration due to gravity? I don’t know. Let me ask my minister.
But here’s the twist. This Christian climatologist is invited to speak at the behest of MountainTrue because she breaks the mold. Our climatologist says she doesn’t believe in climate change; her faith is replaced by overwhelming scientific evidence that climate zones are shifting rapidly due to man-released greenhouse gases. In this context, “climatology” is defined as a belief in man-made global warming.
OK. We should all be good stewards and all. I’m grateful to all the greenies who pushed invention to the point we can go somewhere like Washington, DC and not have asthma attacks anymore. But back when I was more involved in the science, the world had experienced half a degree of non-monotonically increasing temperature increase over about 100 years. And then Al Gore and his people pulled out graphs that hockey-sticked with inflection points in the very year the reports were delivered.
It’s not funny we focus so little on the data. For all the pretense, “climatology” belongs neither to the epistemological nor metaphysical realm, but to the political.
