BBC tells American evangelicals to change their primitive views on global warming

The Telegraph ^ | 12/11/2009 | Damian Thompson

[markomalley]

Matt Frei, BBC man in Washington, has a long history of patronising Middle America and especially evangelical Christians. His latest piece instructs them to change their views on climate change, because “there is no prominent conservative politician on the horizon who is, to put it bluntly, both pro-life and pro-planet”. Pro-planet, in Frei’s worldview, means accepting the AGW alarmists’ views lock, stock and barrel.

Frei doesn’t condemn all American evangelicals. On the contrary, he divides them into good and bad varieties:

The evangelical movement is split between those conservative Christians who suspect that climate change is an evil secular plot, concocted by the devil, Al Gore and “the global government crowd” – in the words of Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher – and those who passionately believe that good Christians need to be good custodians of the planet.

Can you imagine if a senior American journalist for a major network were to make such childish generalisations about us (”Brits divide into broad-minded liberals who care about society and conservatives who whip their servants if they serve the wrong vintage at dinner”)?

Actually, if you want to hear a Briton addressing foreigners de haut en bas, then the Left-liberal Frei (ed. Westminster and Oxford) is your man:

If the green movement truly wants to convert America it needs to convert more evangelical Christians. Let me explain.

According to a BBC News/Harris Poll, the number of Americans who worry that carbon emissions are slowly heating our planet like a lobster pot have actually declined in the last eight years by 25%.

Despite Hurricane Katrina, which rang alarm bells about the connection between climate change and menacing weather, Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and a photo album of environmental horrors from melting ice caps to rising sea levels to receding glaciers, fewer Americans are convinced

[momincombatboots]

Wow.. u mean I have a primitive mind? Ok, you win, I totally believe it all. /sarc. If you think my mind is primitive, you should see my primitive thoughts on faith, family & country. Even more primitive, my independent capability for reason & love for the smell of the rifle range. You have not seen primitive yet BBC, just wait LOL.

[tgusa]

LOL! The Brits haven’t gotten it after 235 yrs.

[ChiMark]

The fact that Globalwarming has been exposed as a hoax should be met with great joy and celebration.

The far left has become unhinged. They have exposed themselves as followers of a pagan religion.

[FrankR]

"BBC tells American evangelicals to change their primitive views on global warming..."

Well, it appears they're just as pompous as they were 235 years ago.

We braved the oceans perils, and fought wars for our freedom from that oppression, and they still call us "primitives".

However, I can hardly turn on the TV set without some guy or gal on there with an English accent...they're coming over here in droves.

I would appear to me that people who assume themselves to be so superior to us American "primitives" would find a better way to PROVE global warming than buying into hundreds of emails that prove lies, corruption, and that the whole premise is a HOAX.

Why...why...it's go easy even a CAVE MAN CAN DO IT...right BBC?

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Free_at_last_-2001]

LOL! The Brits haven’t gotten it after 235 yrs. - some have, the telegraph is a Brit newspaper having a go at the BBC “Let me explain” attitude. The BBC is a hotbed of half witted has beens stuck in the liberal mindset of the last century. Intelligent discourse is not welcome or tolerated there. It is paid for by the British taxpayer.

Mr Twain's quote about the press is an apt description for the BBC: "....a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse."

[ClearCase_guy]

The Flat Earthers are urging me to come over to their way of thinking? No thanks.

[BigCinBigD]

Lets take 1000 neanderthals with stone club axes. And 1000 effeminate Brits with keyboards and set then against each other. I wonder who would win?

[xp38]

I seem to recall some surveys of the public in the UK being skeptical of AGW. Primitivism is everywhere it seems.

[tgusa]

Agreed, and I didn’t mean to slam the Brits as a group. Worked over there for 6 months a few years back and got a steady diet of the Beeb - basically it was all the hotel I lived in received. I found the best way to tolerate the BBC was with a pint at hand.

Mr. Twain’s description would fit our current government, also. Thanks!

[sergeantdave]

Some Brits are still miffed that a bunch of bumpkin farmers with muskets kicked their fat and lazy gentry butts.

And if you want to meet knuckle-dragging “primitives,” talk to any global warming cult member. The overwhelming majority can’t even name the two major greenhouse gases. Belief in al gore’s GW baloney is indeed a religion.

[sig226]

They’re getting desperate.