Palintologists discover the annotated Sarah Palin global warmer

Not-a-liberal Mark Ambinder of The Atlantic gives us a clarifying interpretation of the text of the Washington Post's Sarah Palin outreach to refugees from the pink-slip besieged Washington Times.

As counterfactual as it is charming, Palin's text benefits from Ambinder's concise Palintological efforts.

Is it wrong to steal?

Thou shalt not steal, not even in an attempt to sabotage international climate agreements. But someone did.

The Creation Challenge assault on global warming

Creation Challenge is a joint project of the Methodist Church in Britain, United Reform Church and the Baptist Union of Great Britain and offers this eerily persuasive video:

This earth is a human responsibility, the Archbishop of Canterbury warns

Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams called for a "radical change of heart" to prevent runaway climate change that will otherwise afflict our children and grandchildren and whose early effects already punish the least among us.

Speaking at the Ebor Lecture, he said:

God's faithfulness stands, assuring us that even in the most appalling disaster love will not let us go - but it will not be a safety net that guarantees a happy ending in this world.

Listen to the lecture with questions and answers, here [.mp3]. Or read the entire lecture here.

Early farewell to the north polar ice cap

News for Chuck "global cooling" Colson: Arctic ice to disappear completely by 2013. If he and Richard Land can walk on water by then, perhaps they can hike together across the north polar ice cap that may not exist.

Martin E. Marty on 'Creation Care'

American Lutheran religious scholar Martin E. Marty writes about Evangelicals and the Environment:

This week I stumbled upon a little book which prompts a Sighting of one way some evangelicals are dealing with the environmental crisis and the future. It's Lindy Scott, ed., Christians, the Care of Creation, and Global Climate Change (Pickwick), based on a conference at Illinois' Wheaton College, often called the flagship evangelical liberal arts college-one of several flagships. The only "known" contributors are Wheaton President A. Duane Litfin and super-scientist and up-front evangelical, ex-Oxonian Sir John Houghton, who spoke and wrote on "Big Science, Big God." The rest of the essays, reports, and proposals are from students and graduates of Wheaton and its kin and kind.

One of the essayists therein is student Ben Lowe, who copes with the issue of evangelicals shying away from environmental concerns. Marty relates some evangelical environmental hangups and hints at the answers:

1. The environment isn't really in crisis." Lowe lists seven patent "degradations" of the climate, and agrees with Calvin De Witt that "the common agent...is human action."
2. "Everything's going to burn up anyway." This is the word of the "Eschatology determines ethics" apocalypticists, whom he counters effectively.
3. "Fear of paganism, nature worship and panentheism." This case is a bit blurry, and demands more careful examination than he gives it, but his report is accurate.
4. "Higher priorities: save souls, not whales." This is the oldest standard evangelical put-down; Lowe and others in the book really take that one on, and down.

Creation Care has a growing following amone Southern Baptists too.

Will joins BP in hornets' nest kicking

George Will joined Baptist Press in kicking hornets' nests this week. Indeed, Will's choice of nests recalled the BP response to Southern Baptist Environment and Climate Initiative (SBECI), as chronicled by Jonathan Merritt. For Will turned his acid intellectual pen to defending the pseudo science of "global cooling," which was given some friendly treatment by BP (just as global warming got a Southern Baptist cold shoulder) while Merritt struggled vainly in 2008 to get corrective messages through to a BP editor.

Messages to Will are public, however. Neither he nor his staff need answer phone or email for compelling correctives to be filed.

Nate Silver gave Will his comeuppance over what may yet be called "Will's Law," as a jape.

As Ezra Klein puts it:

In other words, comparing apples to apples, the scientific community didn't believe in global cooling and does believe in global warming. Sadly, our political pundits have outsourced their scientific research to an intern charged with a superficial skim of Newsweek covers.

Sound stewardship of facts, or climate, anyone?