A breath of fresh air from a Republican meteorologist

Rejection of climate science and human contributions to climate change have become articles of faith for many conservative politicians. It is a part of a clever stratagem. Fossil fuels companies realized that they did not have to buy off everyone; just enough to make political action impossible. So, in face of unprecedented changes in global temperature patterns, hydrological cycles, ocean acidification, and atmospheric chemistry, we have the most powerful conservatives demanding that we maintain carbon pollution business as usual. 

Meteorologist Paul Douglas, a lifelong Republican, dares to admit that carbon pollution is destabilizing the climate and is not a hoax concocted by Al Gore. Perhaps the reason that he has broken ranks with the politics of greed is because he takes stewardship of the planet, God's property, quite seriously.

How did so much of the Republican Party enter perpetual denial? We’ve turned climate science into a bizarre litmus test for conservatism. To pretend that heat-trapping gases can be waved away with a nod and a smirk is political fairytale. No harm. No foul. Keep drilling. 

I’m a Christian and ultimately come to Christ through faith. With climate change no faith is required. There is a large and growing body of evidence. The way nature works applies the same to Republican and Democrat, Christian and Muslim, animal, tree and stone. Why do people who profess to love and follow God roll their eyes? Luke 16:2 says “Man has been appointed as a steward for the management of God’s property, and ultimately he will give account for his stewardship.”

Amen, brother.