<\/a> Global warming was of course the centerpiece of the Ecumenical Patriarch’s pastoral message to America during his trip to the United States a few weeks back. The Green Patriarch<\/a> embraced the Progressive environmentalist agenda, so much so that he lent the full weight of his office to urge the passage of political legislation<\/a> such as the Copenhagen Protocols<\/a> that global warming advocates argued was needed to stop imminent environmental catastrophe. <\/p>\n We warned the EP’s handlers that the Mississippi River Symposium and the Washington, DC public relations offensive last month was a dangerous road to take. We objected that a leader of the EP’s stature was lending his moral authority<\/a> to legislation built on questionable (now shoddy and corrupt) science. We rejected the political correctness<\/a> that shaped many of his public statements, especially the elevation of secular moralism<\/a> and apocalyptic alarmism<\/a>, while ignoring the critical issues<\/a> like the continuing devaluation of human life seeping into western civilization. We pointed out that two other prominent religious leaders of the West, Pope Benedict and Patriarch Kirill, have no trouble making these important moral distinctions.<\/p>\n
\nA scandal in global warming research is unfolding that isn’t going away. Internal correspondence from the Climate Reseach Unit<\/a> (CRU), the research center and ground zero for global warming advocacy, was released that reveals that the top global warming scientists hid data that proves the earth has been cooling for the last ten years, conspired against colleagues that were global warming skeptics, and cooked the numbers to keep the lucrative grants coming. It is taking time to digest all the facts but you can read some preliminary conclusions here: London Telegraph<\/a>, Pajamas TV<\/a>, Fox News<\/a>, Washington Times<\/a>, (Google “climategate<\/a>” for more). <\/p>\n