Vanity=Global Warming?

I have been following this debate over the last two or three years and especially since Al Gore declared the coming Global Apocalypse in "An Inconvenient Truth". Two things have occurred to me: One is that based on the gobs and gobs of money involved on both sides, I trust nobody. Two is that faith definitely comes into play here, more than a lot of people realise. Honestly... when you think about it, it takes a very vain, self important world view to say, "I affect the world's climate", or even, "I can prevent Climate Change", for that matter. Now I'll grant you that a dozen or so Nuclear weapons certainly could, but me thinks, not much else. Yes we are to be good stewards of this earth and respect that great gift. But psychologically I believe that the Global Warming debate turns on a persons personal Faith in God, and not so much how they feel about the science. Evidence of that is found in people from either side who will ignore what appears to be solid evidence because it does not fit their worldview. I mean think about it for a moment, how could someone who has no faith in a Creator possibly believe that the fate of the earth is in any but their own hands. Conversely, how then could someone with a very deep faith in God and a knowledge of how He operates in the world possibly come to the conclusion that they(instead of God) are causing anything that happens on a global scale or that they have any say in the matter ultimately whatsoever. Don't get me wrong, I mean there were warming and cooling trends globally in the past, there are now, and there will be again. But as Timothy Ball from the Canada Free Press quotes Dr. Richard Lindzen to say in this article , "the consensus was reached before the research had even begun." This is the case in too many "studies" bent on proving one point or the other. No wonder why God said that you cannot serve Him (Truth) and Money both as masters simultaneously. Reality gets lost under all the dollar bills flying back and forth.

Whether it is faith, worldview or politics, from what I can see one thing is clear... Sound science is not the major force influencing this debate.