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\"GeorgeWill\"The perenially sane George Will just weighed in on some very bad news for climate-change doomsdayists<\/a>:<\/p>\n

On Nov. 2, The Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u2018s Jeffrey Ball reported some inconvenient data. Soon after the U.N.\u2019s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\u2014it shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Thinking Man\u2019s Thinking Man\u2014reported that global warming is \u201cunequivocal,\u201d there came evidence that the planet\u2019s temperature is beginning to cool. \u201cThat,\u201d Ball writes, \u201chas led to one point of agreement: The models are imperfect.\u201d<\/p>\n

Models are no better or worse than their assumptions, and Ball notes how dicey these assumptions can be: \u201cThe effects of clouds, for example, are unclear. Depending on their shape and altitude, clouds can either trap heat, warming the earth, or reflect it, cooling the planet.\u201d It gets worse: \u201cThe way that greenhouse gases affect cloud formation\u2014and how clouds in turn affect temperature\u2014remains a subject of debate. Different models treat these factors differently.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole piece.<\/a> I will never be mistaken for an expert on climate change, but with many others, I have wondered about climate change for some time.\u00a0 It\u2019s clear that more data is needed before this question is settled, but I wonder whether this whole episode doesn\u2019t show us the importance of not jumping on cultural bandwagons.\u00a0 Better to let all the data come in and give oneself time to think hard and well about matters before adopting a whole new position.<\/p>\n

Evangelicals need to be quick to care for the world and the \u201cenvironment\u201d.\u00a0 But we need to be slow to jump at whatever pet cause the culture is trumpeting.\u00a0 The intelligentsia can be very right, but they can also be very wrong.\u00a0 Discipleship at the feet of Christ requires that we use the full measure of our minds for His glory (Romans 12:1-2).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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