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| The dumb hot climate takes just keep on coming. Photo by Pete Foley/Getty Images/Flickr RF |
Everything from bringing a snowball into the U.S. Senate on a chilly February day to "prove" climate change doesn't exist to hapless Pennsylvania man who said an increase in tornadoes in the eastern United States is due to the proliferation of roundabouts that are replacing four-way intersections.
Sadly, I am not making this up.
The most strident climate deniers more often than not invoke God and the Bible in their "solid proof" of climate change being a hoax.
Most seriously religious people are pretty intelligent and have a good grasp on reality. Some on the other hand, oy vey.
I got a couple new ones that really have me shaking my head.
As JoeMyGod and others reports, Pennsylvania GOP state Rep. Stephanie Borowicz tells us we have nothing to worry about climate change, because it doesn't exist! The Bible says so!
Here's what she said:
"When Democrats are pushing bills like banning gas-powered mowers and gas powered stoves in New York City, all under the name of a climate control agenda, we can all see that is really going on here.
The truth is, is in Genesis 8:22 it says, 'as long as the Earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.'
I'll say that again, 'will never cease.' Of course, we are to be good stewards of God's creation, but not through a forceful climate control global agenda."
I'm losing brain cells doing this, but I'll spell it out for our friend Stephanie. Whoever wrote that Bible passage was being Captain Obvious. There's winter and summer. You plant seeds in the spring and you harvest crops toward autumn. It's daytime unless it's night.
Is she saying climate change doesn't exist because there are seasons? Or it doesn't exist because winter is colder than summer? Is it just me or am I not following her leaps of logic?
Probably my favorite response to her nonsense was a comment on X by somebody with the handle @SkyWasYellow:
"So, by the word of Genesis, harvests could drop to such low levels that mass starvation occurs, but since they didn't 'cease' all is well? And cold and heat still exist as extreme droughts and blizzards, as a result of climate change, but all is well because it didn't 'cease'?"
There was another religious hot take on climate change in the past week, too.
The esteemed climate expert and Illinois Rep. Chris Miller, a Republican announced the other day that climate change doesn't exist because God made trees.
Said Miller: "We're not having a climate crisis.....Green leafy plants actually absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. It's the way God made it.'"
I'm picking on the dude, but let's be clear: I'm not picking on trees. I love trees. And they do absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen. Trees are our allies.
But there's only so much trees can do. Before we started burning fossil fuels like crazy, trees were part of the system that kept the world's climate relatively stable.
Besides, if Miller is such a fan of trees, why isn't he upset that humans are mowing down the Amazon forest?
These shysters always invoke God. Many people are serious about the Bible, for good reason. But you know somebody is bullshitting you when they do more flips in their mind to "explain" the Bible than the real physical flips the cast of Circ du Soleil perform.
It's their lame way to think they have the final word. They make up something out of thin air they claim that God and the Bible said. And that's supposed to be the final word because Jesus. Or something.
Or they are grifters using the tried and true method of using a false god to gaslight people.
This isn't a rant about religious people. It's the ones who yell and scream about how pious they are that sends my bullcrap meter into overdrive. The truly religious lead their lives in concert with their beliefs and not take talking points from the fossil fuel industry bosses.
So here's my question: What would Jesus do?
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