On a day when there was news of a Duke University study that casts severe doubt on the global-warming-doom-mongering, there are also posts about climate change today from Clive Davis, commenting on a refreshing BBC program on the subject, and Richard John Neuhaus who has stepped into it at First Things.

Religious leaders who have jumped on the global warming bandwagon frequently say that we have to be willing to make radical sacrifices. But it is the poor of the world who will be required to make the greatest sacrifices. It may be a relatively little thing for an American to give up his SUV, but it’s a very big thing for somebody in Niger to give up his hope for a square meal each day. It is not bold and prophetic to call for sacrifices, whether here or in the global South, that no political leader could possibly embrace. It is moralistic self-indulgence.

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