Global Warming - Religious Studies or Science

[BlasterBates]

As you would perhaps inevitably expect we have the first paper on Global Warming to appear in a Journal of Religious Studies.

New Paper By Renowned Sea Level Expert Nils-Axel Mörner, Calls AGW A “New Religion” Built On “False Premises.”

Is it essentially a theological debate ?

[WTFH]

You know that the "renown expert" is renown only for repeating false claims that he makes every few years?


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"Nelson's "find" is a man some of us found years ago and have seen as a source of wild entertainment ever since. He's called Nils-Axel Mörner, and among his claims to fame are that he possesses paranormal abilities to find water and metal using a dowsing rod, and that he has discovered "the Hong Kong of the [ancient] Greeks" in Sweden."

[BlasterBates]

He's a heretic.

[WTFH]

He's a lunatic.

FTFY

[pjclarke]

You know that the "renown expert" is renown only for repeating false claims that he makes every few years?

And he is publishing in Volume 1, Issue 1 of an online-only pay-to-publish 'journal'.

Big Hmmmmmmm.

Update: Morner's article is Article ID JBL-1-001.pdf, residing at URL http://crescopublications.org/jbl/JBL-1-001.pdf

There is no JBL-1-002.pdf (so far). So it looks like Morner is their only author, though I see from the blog comments that Oliver 'the sun is made of iron' Manuel may submit a manuscript. Probably from jail.

Personally with such a distinguished list of contributors, I predict a bright future for this journal.

[EternalOptimist]

my brother is a vicar, the main thrust of his logic (when he does not rely on faith) is that the world is so complicated, and I can't prove how it came about, so it must have been created.

A logical fallacy, of course.

Just like the eco-loons. 'we have no explanation for any of this, so it must be CO2'

[DimPrawn]

Just like the eco-loons. 'we cannot tax water vapour, the output of the Sun, natural changes to the oceans or volcanic activity, increases or decreases in animals or plants, so it must be CO2 from fossil fuels'

FTFY

[BrilloPad]

"Religious Studies" or "Science"

What is the difference?

[BrilloPad]

my brother is a vicar, the main thrust of his logic (when he does not rely on faith) is that the world is so complicated, and I can't prove how it came about, so it must have been created.

A logical fallacy, of course.

Indeed. Else faith does into come into it.

[pjclarke]

Personally with such a distinguished list of contributors, I predict a bright future for this journal.

Or maybe not. I see Cresco is on Jeff Beall's list of predatory publishers.

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Quality source, there, as ever.