Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Thursday, December 03, 2009 7:42:15 PM
Here is a unusual
story from OpenMarket.org. It seems that the one of the programmers in the leaked emails liked to link his climate work to biblical teachings.
The “Harry” file tells the tortured story of a programmer at CRU struggling to make sense of inconsistent, missing, and incompatible data files and seemingly to try to replicate them. Many of those files had earlier been compiled by someone named “Tim,” who seems to have really made a mess of things. According to the commenter, this “Tim” seems to be Tim Mitchell - who worked at the Climactic Research Unit at University of East Anglia when he was a Ph.D. student and then received his degree. At the time, he also was a member of — no joke —
South Park Evangelical Church, as he notes in
his religious writings on climate change and religion.
Here’s an example:
The government urges us to reduce our energy usage so that we may indulge ourselves in other ways, but we have a higher motive for reducing waste (1 Timothy 6.17-19). Although I have yet to see any evidence that climate change is a sign of Christ’s imminent return, human pollution is clearly another of the birth pangs of creation, as it eagerly awaits being delivered from the bondage of corruption (Romans. 19-22).
My reading of 1 Timothy 6: 17-19 tells me that rich people should not put their hopes in riches, but should share it, and instead store up riches in heaven with good works. My guess is he sees this passage as the"transfer of wealth" idea they are all so fond of.
Who knows? Maybe climate change will be one of the "birthing pains" of the end times. If that indeed is the case, then it would be a utter waste of time to try and stop it; don't you agree?