AGU: Human Impacts on Climate Change and Biological Evolution

I've been doing literature searches on ethics and climate change and various groups' positions on climate change. So I was looking at the American Geophysical Union's position statement on Human Impacts on Climate Change. Big shock. They say it's a problem.

With climate change, as with ozone depletion, the human footprint on Earth is apparent. The cause of disruptive climate change, unlike ozone depletion, is tied to energy use and runs through modern society. Solutions will necessarily involve all aspects of society. Mitigation strategies and adaptation responses will call for collaborations across science, technology, industry, and government. Members of the AGU, as part of the scientific community, collectively have special responsibilities: to pursue research needed to understand it; to educate the public on the causes, risks, and hazards; and to communicate clearly and objectively with those who can implement policies to shape future climate.

So they have a range of position statements available, including one on biological evolution. Kaching!

AGU affirms the central importance of including scientific theories of Earth history and biological evolution in science education. Within the scientific community, the theory of biological evolution is not controversial, nor have “alternative explanations” been found. This is why no competing theories are required by the U.S. National Science Education Standards. Explanations of natural phenomena that appeal to the supernatural or are based on religious doctrine—and therefore cannot be tested through scientific inquiry—are not scientific, and have no place in the science classroom.

Hmmm. Where's the controversy? The denialists among us - notably economic and religious conservatives with vested power interests - would have us endlessly debate non-issues as real issues. The armies of corporate greenhouse gas production and the American christofascists want us to remain ignorance of real science and the ramifications of false beliefs to further tie us to their short-term economic gains and the perpetuation of bronze age lunacy. Hell! Here I am engaging their manufactroversy. Sigh.

Though these little position statements do little on their own, their ubiquity - from the NAS, the AAAS, NOAA, IPCC, NSTA, etc. - make this manufactroversy less and less tenable every day. Now when will our politicians wake up?