Jerry Falwell Still Believes Christians Are Being Duped by Global Warming

The vast majority of scientists believe it. The United Nations believe it. Americans are beginning to understand it and believe it. Yet, Dr. Jerry Falwell still thinks global warming is a bunch of hooey.

Falwell is highly respected by many right-wing, conservative Christians in America. He is the pastor of Thomas Road Baptist church in Lynchburg, Virginia, and Chancellor of Liberty University. He has also resurrected his "Moral Majority Coalition" in recent days, which exists to bring "this nation back to the moral values of faith and family on which it was founded." More than 200,000 people subscribe to his "National Liberty Journal," touted as "The Conservative Christian Newspaper.

Yet, Falwell sees global warming as needless hysteria, perpetuated by "the United Nations (no friends of America), liberal politicians, radical environmentalists, liberal clergymen, Hollywood and pseudo-scientists." He says that evangelicals that buy into the myth are naïve.

In a February 2007 sermon to his congregation at Thomas Road Baptist Church, as well as a similar article in "The National Liberty Journal," Falwell talks about a new organization - the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance (ISA) - that is a combination of pastors, leaders, professors and researchers. Their goal is to find a sensible response to the obvious climate change.

Out of 63 persons listed on their Advisory Board, only three are employed in a field that directly relates to science.

Falwell does quote significantly from Dr. Walter Williams, an economics professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Dr. Williams says that this "big lie" is a conglomeration between the Weather Channel and environmental extremists. Their goal is to "get us in a tizzy over global warming, and they're downright mean about it," says Williams.