Falwell sees climate conspiracy with Satan, liberals, and The Weather Channel

February 27, 2007

TV preacher Jerry Falwell has been denying global warming for years, but this week, he was a little more specific about his perspective.

The religious right leader sees a conspiracy, working to convince people to accept a myth. Who’s involved with the scheme? Al Gore, liberal politicians, the media, “radical Hollywood,” … and The Weather Channel. From Falwell’s latest sermon:

The Weather Channel has taken up that task with its series ‘It Could Happen Tomorrow’. The Weather Channel started its “It Could Happen Tomorrow” series in January 2006. The program includes episodes where a tornado destroys Dallas, a tsunami destroys the Pacific Northwest, Mount Rainier erupts and destroys nearby towns, and San Diego is devastated by wildfires. What is the Weather Channel up to? … The big lie, conceived by the Weather Channel in cahoots with environmental extremists, is to get us in a tizzy over global warming.

OK, but why is The Weather Channel working with Hollywood and liberals to “get us in a tizzy”? Don’t worry, Falwell can explain that, too. As he sees it, there’s a three-prong strategy in place: ” (1) To Create Major Economic Damage to America. (2) The Desire To Change the Subject Concerning the World’s Moral Bankruptcy. (3) Most importantly, it is Satan’s Attempt to Re-direct the Church’s Primary Focus.”

I should probably note that these aren’t mutually exclusive — Falwell appears to believe that The Weather Channel/Liberal axis may be working alongside Satan.

Of course, I’d be remiss if I didn’t put this in the appropriate political context.

The Falwell who sees this climate conspiracy is the same Falwell who’s teamed up with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

* Falwell hosted a reception for McCain at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention.

* McCain hired a top Falwell staffer for his campaign.

* McCain has appeared on national television defending Falwell’s tolerance.

* And McCain appeared alongside Falwell in March, giving the commencement address at the TV preacher’s college.

McCain has cozied up to a man who believes global warming is not only a myth, but a tool in a Satanic plot.

Something to keep in mind for the next person to call McCain an independent-thinking “maverick.”

He left out Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane.

  • I’m sure he will eventually decide that global warming is God’s punishment on mankind for not being intolerant enough.

    I can’t wait ’til Falwell gets caught with his own version of a gay hooker doing meth.

  • I wonder if I could add some fulfillment to my life if I convinced myself that [something] was coming to get me. Doesn’t matter what. Satan, gays, Mexicans, Muslims. These people seem to get off on it so much. Maybe there is something to it.

  • Jerry also left out Tinky Winkee because in that purse of his/hers there’s probably an alien weather machine designed to destroy America’s economy by pretending that it was CO2 emissions.

    In all seriousness:
    “The big lie, conceived by the Weather Channel in cahoots with environmental extremists, is to get us in a tizzy over global warming.”

    All I want to ask Tubby Falwell is this:

    What about the Left Behind Movies, Revelations miniseries and those bullshit Discovery Channel specials on Revelations?

    Is he afraid of competition in the World is Ending bidnez?

  • (1) To Create Major Economic Damage to America.

    Seems like a strange business plan for a television channel. Can’t sell as many ads for cars and whatever else if there has been major economic damage to America.

  • (1) To Create Major Economic Damage to America.

    I think the current sadministration has already used tactics to make this strategy a reality.

  • Here in the NW, when we hear a story about “When Rainier blows” or “when the tsunami comes” we think it a slow news day. Now I know better….the news teams are Satan’s litttle helpers. Thank you, Jerry.

  • ***(1) To Create Major Economic Damage to America.***

    Yeah—money spent on combating global warming isn’t going into Jerry’s personal mausoleum, Pat’s super-shakes, and Benny’s new plane.

    (2) The Desire To Change the Subject Concerning the World’s Moral Bankruptcy.

    So using “God” to justify lies, theft, graft, and murder doesn’t contribute to the moral bancruptcy of the planet? C’mon, Jerry—spill it.

    (3) Most importantly, it is Satan’s Attempt to Re-direct the Church’s Primary Focus.”

    And we all know that “jerry” IS the church’s primary focus. Well, maybe he has to share with Das Bush every so often….

  • What a joke Falwell is. He’s beyond even being civil to as a representative of the dangerously fanatical insane. His God is Satan by another name. His followers are being mislead with his faith through fear of punishment agenda. Saving this beautiful earth from the greedy people who are destroying it is in his opinion, God’s job. I guess God didn’t really expect us to take care of it or our bodies or our animals or each other. His agenda is based on fear but funny how it always follows the agenda of the GOP,. Corporations, and money. All Falwell has got to do is dangle “Satan” in front of his followers and they do whatever he tells them to do, while emptying their pockets and gaining inside business information for capital gain. When caught..Satan over came them and then, God forgives them. He’s an insult to God.

  • The Weather Channel is a tool of Satan? I guess that explains the maniacal look Stormtracker Jim Cantore gets anytime a dark cloud appears on the horizon.

  • Getting people into a tizzy over something doesn’t seem like a very dramatic plot for Satan. Surely he has better plans than that.

    Isn’t the reverend’s name a bit Satanic? Fall Well. I hope he falls and can’t get up.

  • Oh man, go read the sermon. It’s a hoot!

    Experts predict that a universal compliance with the Kyoto Accords or any such proposal being promoted by the Al Gores of this world would cost the global community over $550 trillion and would cost the U.S. about $352 billion almost immediately. For starters, Americans would be assessed 35 cents per gallon of gasoline.

    O.M.F.G.! 35 cents a gallon! It’s the end of the friggin’ WORLD!

    Take me Jesus!

  • Hey guys, hope this doesn’t put you in a bad spot, but I really have been working with Satan. He’s a client of mine. Really nice guy too and his books are impeccible. Which kind of makes sense, as anyone who’s ever taken an accounting class will swear it was all invented by Satan.

    But for the record, global warming isn’t a hoax. And while redirecting the Church’s Primary Focus is one of the side-benefits, he’s really only doing it for the better weather. He figures that he spends so much more time here than his main competitor, so he might as well make things more comfortable for himself. Thank god the major corporations are on-board doing all the work. And yes, he does find it funny that Falwell would be assisting him in his efforts; though this certainly isn’t the first time.

  • “The religious right leader sees a conspiracy, working to convince people to accept a myth.”

    Well he certainly has experience in this area. Fi anyone can smell a rat it is a rat.

    The Weather Channel is owned by Landmark Communications Inc which owns like 300 shitty news papaers and a few local TV stations. The Chairman is Frank Batten Jr. Frank BAtten Sr. is the 235th richest man in the US ($1.4 BB +/-). The Engineering school at Old Dominion is named for him. Classic Liberal media conspiricy here Jerry, you dolt.

  • Former Dan –

    “What about the Left Behind Movies, Revelations miniseries and those bullshit Discovery Channel specials on Revelations?

    Is he afraid of competition in the World is Ending bidnez? ”

    Preface: I am a climate scientist and I do not believe that a global climate catastrophe is imminent. I am an atheist and also doubt the imminent second coming of Christ.

    I think that apocalyptic visions of both the left and right are manifestations of the same thing. People of all generations seem to want the world to end in their lifetime. I guess it makes us special, even if its only that we are very evil.

    There were similar apocalyptic visions around the turn of the last century and they were followed by the rise of facism.

    Check out Yeat’s “The Second Coming” for a vision.

  • Any time someone who put out a video full of lies about the Clintons starts talking about others’ untruths, their remarks should be given all the credilbility they deserve – absolutely none. To have it come out of the vacuous piehole of a religiously insane Republican’t who blasphemes in the name of his Invisible Sky Fairy brings things into negative territory.

    In other words, this clown is so divorced from reality that we should believe the exact opposite of whatever he says.

  • I don’t know why anyone is even paying attention to that moron. This is what I think: Satan is using Jerry Falwell to distract us from the problem at hand: We have a traitor in the White House who is destroying the Nation and should be impeached. This guy is so wicked that the blood of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and thousands of Americans are on his hands and he doesn’t seem to care. That is the distraction. Falwell go to the old age home with the rest of the senile people.

  • TWC’s very first episode of ‘It Could Happen…’ was about a Cat 5 hurricane and a city in the south. Now Cantore, Abrahms, and the rest of those godless scientific types would tell you that that’s all just bad luck, but Rev. Jerry shows us conclusively that they are the spawn, operatives, and followers of Satan…the whole thing was part of the Master Plan!

    RUN FOR THE HILLS!!

    (yeah, like that’ll save you, you bunch of heathens)

  • Falwell’s been smoking some powerful shit…

    He says:

    What does the Bible say about a global warming catastrophe that will melt the glaciers, raise the sea levels to horrific destructive heights and eliminate the four seasons beyond any recognizable difference.

    Psalm 24:1-2, “The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.”

    Genesis 8:22, “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”

    Did I miss the scientists’ announcement that if the earth warmed up there wouldn’t be any more seasons?

    I like how he reminds us about how the Bible’s authors thought that the land floated on the sea. For people with alleged access to divine knowledge, their picture of the earth is amazingly… wrong.

    http://www.piney.com/3Baruch.html

  • “People of all generations seem to want the world to end in their lifetime. I guess it makes us special, even if its only that we are very evil.”

    I think I’d rather be ordinary than special.

  • What is with the hate from the RW regarding Global Warming….
    My god you would think sensible scientific voices were proposing the destruction of the entire Republican party in one fell swoop the way that the RW behaves when global warming is mentioned.

    Have they Repubs become so jaded that anytime a non-Conservative proposes something they automatically assume its for the worst regardless of overwhelming evidence…..is it that bad….seriously…..

  • I work with people who eat this crap up (out of a dept. of 11, seven of them are radical righties) — yesterday, one tried to argue global warming isn’t really man’s fault because, you know, Mars is getting warmer.

    Now, considering Mars is a different planet, I guessed her point was that solar radiation was a main cause of global warming.

    So I pointed her toward numerous, peer-reviewed studies that have factored in solar affects, yet show now major difference in results.

    Her response: She said all the academics “have an agenda” and then sent me a link to a paper over at AEI to support her position.

    Now, this is important because it shows the mindset of these people — for them, it’s perfectly reasonable that thousands of academics got together to put forth global warming not because of science, but due to an “agenda.” Falwell deserves some points because at least he put forth what the agenda may be, while my co-worker didn’t have the intellectual fortitude to at least suggest one.

    For them, it’s also okay to use evidence by a group that is not a scientific body, does not publish peer-reviewed work, and is from a group that openly admits to having an agenda.

    In the end, it’s the same story we all know and despise: people like this will come up with whatever BS they can to further their political goals, the future or facts be damned.

    Whether it’s Falwell and his “IT’S THE WORK OF THE DEBIL!!!!one!!!!” or the idiots with whom I work who think science is the work of radicals with an agenda, the refusal to recognize the obvious is par for the course … especially when the obvious conflicts with their already-defined and narrow world view.

    I’m getting to the point where the low prices and affordable housing here in KC just aren’t worth putting up with the stupidity that surrounds me each and every day.

    (Note: Sorry for the thesis.)

  • I wouldn’t give the Weather Channel a complete pass. What does global warming have to do with volcanoes or tsunamis? It sounds like they’re engaged in making cheap entertainment out of the problem, like those bad made-for-TV disaster movies, and the bad theatrical movies that should have been bad made-for-TV movies, about volcanoes or meteorites – EVERYWHERE! – or other such nonsense.

    None of this mitigates how completely batshit Falwell is, it just seems absurd how these things play off each other. Falwell is literally a caricature of himself, if that’s even possible.

  • The big lie, conceived by the Weather Channel in cahoots with environmental extremists, is to get us in a tizzy over global warming. — Falwell

    The big lie, conceived by the maladministration in cahoots with the corporations, is to get us in a tizzy over Al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq and Iran.

    Sound familiar?

  • What on earth do tsunamis and volcanic eruptions have to do with global warming?
     
    Sticking to weather- and climate-related issues, wildfires and tornados happen currently, and pretty frequently. If Weather Channel comes out with a series “It Could Happen in 50 Years” and includes Tsunamis in Nevada, global warming doubters can get excited.

  • What on earth do tsunamis and volcanic eruptions have to do with global warming? – Simon C, Post #26

    It’s been a very long time since I took any classes in meteorology, geology or climatology, but my understanding is that as the earth heats up, tectonic activity (the usual cause of tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions) becomes more frequent and intense.

  • These loonies go around preaching about how all us hellbound unbelievers are going to fry in a lake of fire…sure will be funny when Falwell and his braindead followers find themselves burning up from the global warming they don’t believe in.

    These assholes are so tiresome. Makes me wish the “rapture” would happen right now, dammit. Give the rest of us some peace.

  • Y’know, in and of itself, global warming will not be the end of the world. It probably won’t even be the end of Humankind. I’ll grant you, that the melting of the polar ice caps will put a real damper on my ability to get good pastrami in Manhattan, but I’m not totally sold on the notion that the destruction of ‘civilization as we know it’ is necessarily a bad thing.

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