I’m having a fairly relaxed holiday (some way or other I didn’t get tasked with “minding the store” as I normally do on holidays,) so I haven’t trolled the dark side today, but this much I will promise you: a whole bunch of nutter blogs in La-La-Land are going to seize on the winter storm today as “evidence” of there being no global warming. I know this because they do it every time a winter storm is particularly rough.

The “logic” behind this is astounding. We can liken it to someone finding a guard at a concentration camp that didn’t beat the inmates and using this as “proof” of how “humane” the Nazis were. The climate change deniers just forget about the ever-thinning ice pack at the North Pole (and I’m waiting to see how all the Santa Claus stories will be rewritten, because they’ll have to be,) the native villages in Alaska that are sinking because of the melt of the permafrost, the Pacific islands that are disappearing due to the rise in sea levels from the melting ice, the polar bears that are starving to death because the ice is further and further away from the land mass in most places (and encroachment on their stomping grounds by Grizzlies migrating north as the weather warms,) the unprecedented droughts in Australia and many other parts of the world…. the list goes on and on. No, none of that will matter, because Dallas got snow today.

In this time of celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, how can so many Christians be so dismissive of the plight of so many human beings? Of the loss of habitat for so many of God’s creatures? Why is it that the so-called “fundamentalists” dismiss their Christian environmentalist brethren as “Communists?” It seems to me that a Deity who created something as magical as the Earth would be distressed by what we’ve done to it. I certainly don’t think that any God would be pleased by all of our polluting. Yet, the fundies seem to think that God wants us to continue to waste and pollute, and to hell with anyone adversely affected by it.

Oh, and there’s also the matter of our wars-the ones that the fundies all love so much. An astounding amount of greenhouse gas is sent up by our military juggernaut, and we’re also poisoning the lands with our toxic dumps and our depleted uranium ammunition. How much would Jesus be pleased by this, were he to come back and look around today? Jesus, the champion of the children, would see a whole lot of children sickened, poisoned, and starved because of what we’ve done to the lands he was familiar with. I don’t think the Christ I read about in the New Testament would be anxious to congratulate those who propagate these evils in his name.

Eh….. off the soapbox. If you have the stomach for it today, drop by your favorite climate denier’s blog, and see for yourself how snow in Dallas “proves” that the Earth isn’t warming. And if you don’t have the stomach for it….. stay safe and happy this season. Hug your kids. Play with your dog

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