The fallibility of science: The scientist

A few weeks back I jotted a series covering a biblical response to environmentalism, global warming, etc. (here, here, here, and here).  Then I tapped out a couple of posts exposing man's fallen nature--yes, I'm included in that--(here, here, and here).  Now we have the merging of fallen man with environmentalism and you get the Climate Change Scandal, a change you can't believe in.

What?  You have not heard about the doctoring and fudging of statistical data to make global warming appear a fact?  You have not heard about the corruption of the peer-review process preventing those with papers that deny man-made climate change from getting published?  You have not heard about the e-mails between such vaunted scientists as they explain to one another the best ways to cook the books and to silence the rabble?  All this from the premiere institution for the study of climate change.

If you haven't tracked this, I invite you to read two columns from Jonah Goldberg here and here.  The first gives a bit more detail behind the corruption of the environmental "science," and leads into the second article, the reason this scandal is so significant.  Later this month, the world converges on Copenhagen, Denmark to determine what steps the nations will take to stem the tide of "global warming."  The restrictions upon industry and upon individuals will be pocket-biting. 

Even as Climategate begins to get some press, many are frantically trying to get the genie back in the bottle.  "Man-made global warming is real," they cry.  "Man is the blight of the planet."  No, man is the God-given steward of the planet. 

Like many other moral issues, should one side of the debate persist with its message and should they get a few who hear them in key locations (like a vice president?), then more and more folks are going to come to see this inconvenience as truth even though true data-crunching science does not support the conclusion.  On that day, man submits himself to a most unforgiving planet.