So while the uncovering of the East Anglia CRU Email scandal is into its third week with scarcely a peep of direct coverage, it seems the usual suspects are hard at work trying to shore up the thesis, on a public relations and political front (although certainly not a scientific one).<\/p>\n
I flipped on MPR twice this weekend, more or less at complete random.<\/p>\n
The first time, I turned the show on to Speaking of Faith<\/em> – the normally-excellent Minnesota-based production that explores religion and faith in all its many flavors, to normally-fascinating depth.\u00a0 The show is one of MPR’s few regular programs whose podcasts I listen to punctiliously.\u00a0 But today…:<\/p>\n A conversation about climate change and moral imagination with environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben. He’s been ahead of the curve on this fantastically complex issue since he wrote The End of Nature in 1989. We explore his evolving perspective on human responsibility in a changing natural world. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Not a word of controversy or skepticism to be heard, naturally – and this from a show that gives intellectually-ravenous credibility to every variety of lack <\/em>of belief as well as all of the world’s manifestations of it – just the blithe acceptance that man-made global warming is a fact, and that collectivizing our society is our only real hope.<\/span><\/p>\n Still, it was better than On The Media<\/a> – <\/em>a program for whom leftist apologetics seems to be an unstated given. <\/span><\/p>\n