{"id":10599,"date":"2010-11-10T16:15:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T21:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10599"},"modified":"2010-11-10T16:15:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T21:15:44","slug":"global-warming-is-not-a-problem-god-said-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/global-warming-is-not-a-problem-god-said-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Global warming is not a problem: God said so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1328366\/John-Shimkus-Global-warming-wont-destroy-planet-God-promised-Noah.html?ITO=1490\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Republican congressman hoping to chair the powerful House Energy Committee refers to the Bible and God on the issue of global warming.<\/p>\n<p>Representative John Shimkus insists we shouldn&#8217;t concerned about the planet being destroyed because God promised Noah it wouldn&#8217;t happen again after the great flood.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking before a House Energy Subcommittee on Energy and Environment hearing in March, 2009, Shimkus quoted Chapter 8, Verse 22 of the Book of Genesis.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;As long as the earth endures, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never cease.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have a lot of sympathy for Shimkus\u2019 views: God is ultimately in control of what happens to the earth and man\u2019s presumption of self determination is largely vanity. At the same time, although I think anthropological global warming is a hoax, I have enough of the hobbit in me to like green fields, woods, and meadows with wild flowers. Our world is filled with spectacular beauty: it is ours to enjoy, not despoil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: A Republican congressman hoping to chair the powerful House Energy Committee refers to the Bible and God on the issue of global warming. Representative John Shimkus insists we shouldn&#8217;t concerned about the planet being destroyed because God promised &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/global-warming-is-not-a-problem-god-said-so\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[2156],"class_list":["post-10599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warming","tag-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}