You can always count on Alan Keyes to give voice to the nutty ideas running around in the minds of Republican activists. The beliefs that Alan Keyes has expressed about global warming are a great example.
It’s no surprise that Alan Keyes has long been among those who deny that global warming exists and is caused largely by human activity. Most Republican politicians have spent the last 20 years insisting that they know more on the subject than climatologists and other scientists who study global warming professionally.
What is a bit more surprising is the idea expressed by Alan Keyes that, if global warming exists, it is part of a divine plan orchestrated by the Christian God to make Earth a paradise. In 2000, Keyes wrote, “For those who view the course of human events within a religious framework, it is not unreasonable to speculate that mankind, as if led by an invisible hand, has been engaged in a vast recycling project. Through our utilization of fossil fuels, we are taking the carbon dioxide plants removed from the air millions of years ago and putting it back into the atmosphere where it can once again be converted for the benefit of living things. In any event, I believe the balance of evidence suggests that man-made CO2 is not destabilizing the climate system but, rather, enhancing global food security and bio-diversity.”
If you’re willing to believe, as Alan Keyes does, that industrial pollution is all a part of a plan by the creator of the universe to make life pleasant for human beings, then maybe you’ll want to give Alan Keyes your support for President of the United States in 2008. If not, consider a progressive alternative, a candidate who believes that human beings need to take responsibility for human problems.
(Source: WorldNetDaily, April 8, 2000)
