I’ve been searching, in vain, for comments on the Climategate controversy from vocal members of the religious Left. Although there have been hundreds of news stories on the leaked emails and documents from the Climatic Research Unit—and scores of millions of references on the Internet—religious environmental activists are acting as if nothing has happened. So far, we’re just getting giddy reports from or about Copenhagen (See here, here, here, here, and here, for examples.)
In an article about environmentalism and the Christian Left, however, Cliff Kincaid was able to get a comment from Walter Grazer. Grazer was director of the environmental justice program for the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops from 1993 to 2007 and is currently interim executive director of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment. Here’s what Grazer said: “I am really not up on that issue at all.”
I find that hard to believe, but perhaps the run-up to Copenhagen has not given Grazer and others any time to investigate the crumbling foundation of the UN’s power grab. When they get some downtime, though, they might start by reading this first-rate piece of investigative journalism in the UK Daily Mail (ignore its misdirecting title). It’s becoming increasingly untenable for religious leaders who say they want to bring moral reasoning to the environmental debate to ignore the pattern of misrepresentation and distortion by leading climate scientists.