Pastor Robert Jeffress, serves on President Trump's Evangelical Advisory Board, told young climate activist Greta Thunberg the rainbow was 'God's promise that the polar ice caps aren't going to melt and flood the world again.'
On the program, Jeffress referred to climate change as an"imaginary crisis," telling listeners that Trump was right to skip the summit. He then pivoted to discussing Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who has become the face of the global climate justice movement.
"Somebody needs to read poor Greta Genesis, Chapter 9," Jeffress said,"and tell her the next time she worries about global warming, just look at a rainbow. That's God's promise that the polar ice caps aren't going to melt and flood the world again."Rev. Robert Jeffress at a pro-life rally in Austin, Texas, in 2013.Starnes agreed with Jeffress, commenting,"This whole global warming, tree-hugging fiasco—again, there is nothing to it.
In addition to frequent appearances on Fox programming, Jeffress is the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas. His sermons are broadcast worldwide via TV and radio on the programHe has been a faithful defender of the President, appearing on Fox News after evidence of Trump's alleged extramarital affair with Stormy Daniels, to argue evangelicals"weren't voting for an altar boy.
Conservative commentators have criticized Thunberg since she rose to global attention. On Monday, Daily Wire contributor Michael Knowles. He was immediately censured, with the network apologizing and releasing a statement that it would no longer book him on its shows. Thunberg went began a strike from school for climate justice in August 2018. As she continued, people around the world began to join in. At last Friday's global climate strike, an estimated 4 million participated, making it the largest climate protest in human history.
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