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Famed Televangelist a Convert to Global Warming

In a stunning reversal of opinion, famed televangelist Pat Robertson is apparently now of the opinion that global warming is a real phenomenon. Like President Bush, who is also an evangelical Christian, Robertson has been known in the past to deride proponents of global warming, sticking with his faith as proof that global warming does not exist. However, this year?s intense heat wave in the United States, which has taken lives and led to power grids shutting down in major metropolitan areas, has proven to be a ?baptism of fire? ? or rather, heat ? that has convinced Robertson that global warming is in fact something to worry about.

Many evangelicals have in the past reached the conclusions that Pat Robertson only reached recently, evangelicals like Robertson who are splitting with the president that many in America and around the world see as ?their man in the White House?. The record-breaking temperatures in the United States, though, are according to Mr. Robertson ?making a convert out of me.? And who does Robertson hold responsible for global warming? Mankind. On his 700 Club televangelism show, Robertson said last Thursday that ?If we are contributing to the destruction of this planet, we need to do something about it.?

Robertson claimed this past May that God told him in a message that the U.S. coastline would be subjected to fierce storms this year, possibly on both coasts, and that ?If I heard the Lord right about 2006, the coasts of America will be lashed by storms," Robertson said. ?There well may be something as bad as a tsunami in the Pacific Northwest.? Whether that message was genuine, or the announcement a prelude to Robertson justifying his reaching the conclusions he has reached, must ultimately remain a subject of speculation except for those who are in the know.