LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY omorka)

Hmm. I was struck by something earlier today. I had previously been thinking that the Fundamentalist Christian resistance to accepting global warming as reality was a combination of the devil's bargain they'd struck with the money/big business wing of the Republican party, and their general skepticism about science. But it occurred to me, after the post about heliocentrism, that perhaps there was something deeper here.

Genesis 9:11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.

Are the rising sea levels of an Antarctic/Greenland glacial melt sufficient to trigger a reaction based on this verse? That any global flood would be a violation of this covenant, and thus, in their universe, can't happen? Or is this too big a stretch?