Gosh. If you’ve publicly shown yourself to be especially prone to dysfunctional cognition and flights of fantasy for many years, you can get yourself a big headline by merely stating the obvious. Here’s the story from Reuters [1]:
Conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson said on Thursday the wave of scorching temperatures across the United States has converted him into a believer in global warming.
“We really need to address the burning of fossil fuels,” Robertson said on his “700 Club” broadcast. “It is getting hotter, and the icecaps are melting and there is a buildup of carbon dioxide in the air.”
He’s certainly singing a different tune. He’s the same guy who earlier had this to say [2]:
Tell me, what do the environmentalists believe? Do they worship the God of the Bible or something else?
I wonder what changed Robertson’s mind. Could it be . . . evidence?
Evidence is very dangerous stuff. Robertson will need to be very very careful with his new infatuation with real life information. If he’s not careful, he might get seduced by other evidence, which might then cause him to modify his views on Iraq [3], evolution [4] and the existence of a vengeful God [5].
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