Global Warming

[nChrist]

 

I haven't gone mad - SEE - I'm still smiling!

 

However, I just saw a squirrel with a Mohawk haircut, so I might need to check again.  At least the squirrel wasn't armed.

(Small Print:  I think that I know what's coming next.    )

[Shammu]

I haven't gone mad - SEE - I'm still smiling!

 

However, I just saw a squirrel with a Mohawk haircut, so I might need to check again.  At least the squirrel wasn't armed.

(Small Print:  I think that I know what's coming next.    )

Oops, wrong squirrel..........................

Right squirrel......................

[nChrist]

Oops, wrong squirrel..........................

Right squirrel......................

          ROFL! - Call the white coats - BUT ask them to get the squirrel FIRST!

I take all of that back. PLEASE let the white coats deal with the most dangerous people first - OUR POLITICIANS!

[Pizza_Mahal]

I take all of that back. PLEASE let the white coats deal with the most dangerous people first - OUR POLITICIANS!

Shoot them down, cats.

[Soldier4Christ]

 The Doomsday clock has been moved two minutes closer to the midnight hour

A group of scientists assessing the dangers to civilization have now added climate change to the prospects of nuclear annihilation as the greatest threats to humankind and the Doomsday Clock located in Chicago now stands at five minutes to the hour of midnight.

The directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist held discussions to assess this idea of doomsday threats to civilization and felt that the growing global nuclear instability has led humanity to the brink of a second nuclear age and that the threat posed by climate change is second only to that posed by nuclear weapons.

The assessment by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that we are closer to the midnight hour on the Doomsday Clock goes along with the prophetic scenario for the Last Days that can be found in Bible prophecy.

The concept timepiece, the Doomsday Clock devised by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, was first featured by the magazine some sixty years ago shortly after the US dropped its Atomic Bomb on Japan. According to the scientists, the threats most worrisome included: Iran's nuclear ambitions, North Korea's detonation of an Atomic Bomb, the presence of twenty-six thousand launch-ready weapons by America and Russia, and the inability to secure and halt the international trafficking of nuclear materials such as highly enriched uranium and plutonium.

The concept of a Doomsday Clock does draw ones attention to the reality of the End of the World scenario that can be found in Bible prophecy. The seventeen ancient Jewish prophets in the Old Testament Scriptures reveal the Last Days scenario that alerts all students of Bible prophecy that Doomsday is quickly approaching; however, the Bible does not call for the complete annihilation of all of humankind. Revelation 6:8-9 tell us that one fourth will be killed Rev8:11 says "many men died" and 9:15 one-third of Earth's population will die in a catastrophic way. Death and destruction is ahead for this Earth and its population according to the prophetic passages of Scripture.

The truth be known, that Doomsday clock may be a bit slow.

[Shammu]

The Doomsday clock has been moved two minutes closer to the midnight hour

I don't think they know how close they are, to God calling us home. This is only my opinion though, as we come closer to the end times.

[Soldier4Christ]

Not only has President Bush joined the global warming crew but now Newt Gingrich has jumped on the band wagon with the production of a global warming ad next to Nancy Pelosi. The ad is produced with/by Al Gore. It looks like the republicans now are also selling America out to a bunch of garbage just for the purpose of controlling the people.

[HisDaughter]

Now Newt the Poot too, uh?  What a bunch of brainwashing, scaming, hoopla.  The thing is, there are folks that really believe this stuff.  Even Christians that I know!  Meanwhile, we've been having snow and hail here in the Greater Seattle area and it's gettin' darn close to May for crying out loud!

[nChrist]

Brothers and Sisters,

All of the GLOBAL WARMING STUFF IS COMPLETE HOG-WASH. However, there are some energy issues that must be dealt with. If they told the TRUTH, what needs to be done would be much easier to accomplish.

The TRUTH is that we desperately need forms of energy OTHER THAN OIL. This has nothing at all to do with GLOBAL WARMING, rather to NATIONAL SECURITY and affordable energy for the future. We should already be HEAVILY involved with NEW nuclear plants, wind energy, solar energy, clean coal-fired energy, and all kinds of NEW TECHNOLOGY that would end our dependence on foreign oil. We also need stable prices for energy, and that can no longer be done with oil. In effect, our current dependence on oil means that our ECONOMY AND NATIONAL SECURITY can be held HOSTAGE BECAUSE OF OIL. This is TRUE, so why aren't we doing anything about it? People would understand and accept this TRUTH, but not the pack of LIES that we are currently being fed. Those pushing the lies will make tons of money until those paying the bills either go bankrupt or give up. Further, I don't think it would take long to make a significant portion of the middle class poverty stricken. It wouldn't bother the RICH PEOPLE much. In fact, the RICH PEOPLE would probably just get RICHER. However, larger and larger numbers of people would not be able to buy goods and services.

If things continue as they are now, having electricity and heating a home will cost an arm and a leg. Large portions of our population won't be able to afford it. It won't have a thing to do with the lies of GLOBAL WARMING, rather of decreasing supplies of oil and increasing demands for oil. FOR WHATEVER REASONS, THIS PART OF THE WORLD HAS INVESTED ALMOST NOTHING IN SOURCES OF ENERGY OTHER THAN OIL! So, it wouldn't take much to put us into a crisis that would probably cause our economy to collapse. IN SHORT, WE ARE IN A VERY SAD AND IGNORANT CONDITION THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GLOBAL WARMING!

[Soldier4Christ]

“We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the
theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the
right things—in terms of economic policy and
environmental policy.”

Timothy Wirth, Former
U.S. Senator (D- Colorado)

[Soldier4Christ]

Instead of the global warming/climate change garbage here is where gore and his ilk need to be doing something about. Of course that wouldn't put as much money in their pockets if they did that.

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Over 37.7 million people in India are affected by water-borne diseases due to contaminated drinking water supply and an estimated 1.5 million children die of diarrhoea each year, according to newly available statistics.
Compiled through collaboration between the government and the international non-government organisation (NGO) Water Aid the new figures belie official claims that 94 percent of rural 94 percent of rural and 91 percent of urban populations now have access to safe drinking water.

According to Water Aid the difference is that until now there has been no mention in official statistics of the quality of water supplied to these populations, or of its sustained year-round supply.

Lizette Burgers, chief of Water, Environment and Sanitation at UNICEF says that in spite of India’s efforts at reaching water to millions, "increasing populations, bacterial infections and other problems have resulted in significant difference in effective coverage’’.

According to UNICEF statistics, over one-third of the world’s population that lives without access to sanitation lives in India. "The greatest problem for water quality in India is from human and animal faeces," said Burgess. "The world is looking at India to see what it does for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in this sector", commented Burgess.

India is committed to the MDG in the water-sector to halve, by 2015, the numbers of its people without access to safe drinking water.

Depinder Kapur of WaterAid-India says the organisation got alerted to the issue of contaminated water-supply from their ‘extensive engagements’ with various communities across India.

Kapur said in Water Aid’s experience the main sources for India’s polluted water-supply remain open defecation, lack of sanitation, over-exploitation of groundwater resources and chemicals leaching into water sources.

The most serious victims of this pollution are India’s rural villages, constituting nearly 70 percent of the country’s population.

Arsenic and fluoride contamination from over-used groundwater, wherein the water drawn hits rock-bottom, is another serious health hazard facing rural communities. A newly-emerging cause of anaemia, especially in women and children in rural communities, is now thought to be related to fluoride contamination.

"One direct impact of this is affected women giving birth to low birth-weight babies, who in turn are impaired from this pollution with autism, impaired physical and mental growth and several other disorders,’’ says Dr. A.K. Susheela of the Delhi-based Fluorosis Research and Rural Development Foundation.

A 2008 UNICEF report says that 43 percent of the world’s low birth-weight infants are born in India.

In support of argument Susheela said that while government of India, in its bid to check anemic pregnancy has been providing folic acid to pregnant mothers since 1970, no positive benefit has been noticed so far. She believes the reason is due to fluoride-contamination damaging intestinal inner walls and making them incapable of absorbing nutrients.

"We are adding to the disabled-child population in India without realising the causative factor,’’ says Susheela.

Approximately 30,000 habitations in various parts of the country are affected by fluoride in their water systems and another 7,000 habitations are affected by arsenic. Both contaminants come from mineral rock sources, emerging due to over-exploitation of groundwater.

Human populations alongside the river Ganges, running through northern and eastern India, suffer from various levels of arsenic poisoning, according to well-established studies.

Dipankar Chakraborty of the School of Environmental Sciences at the Calcutta-based Jadavpur University, who first brought the issue to public attention about 20 years ago, blames the administration for not heeding to the serious public health-hazard in time.

"The crisis is in the administration’s poor management of water supply and can be solved by switching from groundwater sources to the rivers for water supply, Chakravarty said.

Bharat Lal, director of the government’s Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission and the department of Drinking-Water Supply admits that the issue of water-quality has been secondary. "We are not monitoring the impact of the water, once access has been achieved.’’

Lal said there was a serious lack of trained staff for arsenic and fluoride-testing at the district-level and points to unutilised funds given by the central government to various state administrations for water-quality testing.

"The government, municipal and village bodies, responsible for water-supply also abdicate the responsibility of monitoring whilst they supply," said Lal.

[nChrist]

Hello Pastor Roger,

Brother, you're right - there are all kinds of worthy things that need to be addressed. However, it appears that the corrupt Al Gore's of this world are receiving the attention and soaking up available resources. It's very sad to know that the money being thrown at Al Gore and folks like him will accomplish ABSOLUTELY NOTHING except make the Al Gore's richer.

It's also sad to know that programs associated with folks like Al Gore will be mandatory. The money spent will also reduce the available money that could have been given in private and public aid for REAL HUMAN NEEDS. BUT, instead - Al and his friends need more private jets and mansions. They also want to experiment with PRIVATE DICTATORSHIP METHODS that appear will work quite well!

[Soldier4Christ]

Al Gore's global warming debunked – by kids!
Winners announced in 'The Sky's Not Falling' video-essay contest

Al Gore's global warming philosophy has been debunked by many scientists and studies, and now it has met the same fact at the hands of children, in "The Sky's Not Falling" video/essay contest, sponsored by WND Books, formerly World Ahead Media.

The contest was launched early I 2008 and was designed to highlight the absurdities, untruths and downright lies that children are being taught daily about "climate change" in public school.

Russell Young, a Minnesota writer who captured first place in the essay competition, explained the importance of using celebrities such as Gore and the medium of movies to enhance the educational experience for students.

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"Here are just a few other films schools might use for their teaching curriculums. 'The Polar Express' could be used for instruction on transportation systems. 'Borat' is a perfect teaching tool for understanding how the Democratic Party uses focus groups. 'Alien,' could be used to teach students about anatomy and homeland security, all at the same time," he wrote.

"'Far fetched,' you say. Maybe, but 'Moby Dick' taught me all I ever needed to know about whales, and I'm a marine biologist," he said.

"Kids across America are being victimized by global warming hysteria," according to Holly Fretwell, author of The Sky’s Not Falling: Why It’s OK to Chill About Global Warming.

"I wanted to know what kids just like mine are hearing in their classrooms,” Fretwell said. “Running a contest was a fun way to go about it.”

"All of us, and our children in particular, are being confronted daily with half-truths and falsehoods about global warming,” noted Fretwell. “It’s just plain wrong.”

She said that was or inspiration for the book in the first place.

"I want kids to get excited about science and to understand that it’s human ingenuity and a can-do spirit, not government sanctions, that will lead us to a bright environmental future. I want kids to learn how to become critical thinkers," she said.”

Contest winners will receive a cash prize, a copy of “The Great Global Warming Swindle” DVD courtesy of junkscience.com, and copies of The Sky’s Not Falling for their local school library and their kids’ science classroom.

In second place in the video competition was Warren Meyer of Arizona.

The first-place essay is titled "Al Gore Causes Global Warming in School Aged Brains" and is by Russell Young, of Minnesota:

    If Al Gore’s film "An Inconvenient Truth," is suitable for teaching about climatology, then Alfred Hitchcock’s film the "The Birds," is a good candidate for teaching ornithology.

    "Wait a moment," you say. What does a horror film which has been characterized as "extremely disturbing," where hoards of normally skittish, but peaceable birds, inexplicably attack and terrorize humans, have to teach our children about science? The answer, of course is that it could be used to anesthetize them to the frightening scenarios presented in Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."

    It's hard to decide which would be worse: frightening young students with scripted terror from a horror master, or frightening students with scripted propaganda from an environmental hypocrite. But think of the box office draw potential by making a double header out of these two movies. Plus, each film is steeped with enough gut wrenching scenes to keep even the most jaded students interested, making them a perfect antidote to typically boring science fare.

    In "The Birds," one scene shows children helplessly driven to terrified flight as birds relentlessly descend upon them. A particularly graphic moment depicts a bird tearing at the face of a screaming boy of about 8 or 9 years of age. Such viewing should make an indelible impression upon the minds of our youth as to the importance of not interfering with nature.

    In Gore's film we are treated to equally stomach turning cinematography as the director treats us to numerous close-ups of Gore, thus making it clear how serious minded he is about the environment. We know he is the man who can make a change because of the repeated shots showing adoring masses who seemingly follow him around the globe. Let's just hope they don’t all do it on their own personal jets.

    All of this, however, got me to thinking. Maybe schools could begin to utilize more Hollywood offerings. Think about it. For only the cost of a Blockbuster rental our students minds could be opened up to myriad realms.

    Here are just a few other films schools might use for their teaching curriculums. "The Polar Express" could be used for instruction on transportation systems. "Borat" is a perfect teaching tool for understanding how the Democratic Party uses focus groups. "Alien," could be used to teach students about anatomy and homeland security, all at the same time.

    "Far fetched," you say. Maybe, but "Moby Dick" taught me all I ever needed to know about whales, and I'm a marine biologist.

The second-place essay is titled "Global Warming Basics For Beginners," and is by Dan Nagasaki of California:

    The earth has had huge climate shifts with extreme warmth and extreme cold (remember reading about the ice age?) long before man could have possibly had any impact on the earth's climate. If man didn't exist on earth, these great climate shifts would still occur. There are two major questions regarding global warming. First, are we really in a long-term global warming trend and second, is man primarily responsible for this? The first may be true, but the second doesn't appear to be true.

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[Soldier4Christ]

    If you ask an average person who is concerned about the environment to name the major factors affecting global warming, he'll probably fail to mention the two most important factors. First is the sun, which is actually quite volatile. Even small changes on the sun affect our climate. So, the most important factor affecting global warming, the sun, is not affected by anything mankind does.

    In fact, other planets in our solar system are also getting warmer. Second is water vapor, which forms the cloud cover.

    After the sun and water vapor come other, much less significant factors such as sulfur dioxide, methane, and carbon dioxide (CO2). To put this even further in perspective, more sulfur dioxide is spewed out through volcanoes and earth vents than by industrialization. Methane is produced by plant-eating animals, including man, so if you really want to make a serious dent in methane production, you need to resign yourself to the mass extinction of most plant-eating animals. As for CO2, which makes up less than 1/10th of 1 percent of the earth's atmosphere (Nitrogen and oxygen make up 99 percent of the earth's atmosphere), the average person, merely by existing, produces more CO2 than the average automobile. Even with the tremendous increase in CO2 in the atmosphere over the last 100 years, the average temperature of the earth has increased about 1 degree C, with most of that temperature increase occurring prior to the rapid increase in CO2 levels.

    Many environmentalists believe that protecting the environment means keeping certain environmental conditions exactly the same, but the earth and its ecosystem are constantly evolving. The earth naturally goes through periods of warming and cooling, and some species die out, while others are created. And again – to add some perspective – some changes, such as CO2 increases and global warming, have some beneficial effects, such as increased crop yields and vegetation.

The third-place essay is titled "A Christmas Dinner Conversation" and is by Jim Lion of California:

    At a recent Christmas dinner, I had a conversation with my niece, 16 and very smart, who just got into the University of Pennsylvania on early decision. When I showed her how rising global temperatures may have caused the increase in CO2 gases, rather than the opposite Algorism (i.e. that rising CO2 has caused Global Warming) she said, "But that doesn't make any sense."

    She's a smart girl. She can figure things out. The reason she thought my assertion made no sense is simple. It runs counter to the doctrine she has heard repeated over and over again ad nauseum, and perpetuated without question or remorse by the mainstream media.

    I'll tell you what I told her that night at dinner.

    If you look at the graph that Al Gore used in his Oscar-winning movie "An Inconvenient Truth," something emerges decidedly inconvenient to Al Gore's thesis of man-made global warming.

    At first, Al Gore appears to get it right. The graph shows a precise correlation between changes in global temperature and changes in atmospheric CO2 over thousands of years. This suggests that when carbon dioxide emissions increase, a rise in global temperatures will result. However, if you take a closer look, the data show an 800 year gap between the changes in global temperature and the changes in atmospheric CO2. 800 years! What's more, CO2 is a trailing indicator, which means, based on the Goracle's own data, that today's current rise in atmospheric CO2 was actually caused by the Medieval Warming Period that occurred 800 years ago!

    These facts have not been lost on many reputable scientists, who are busy looking for ways to prove how a rise in global temperature 800 years ago could have percolated down through the ocean, and then rose to the surface, causing the oceans to release vast quantities of CO2. If the process took 800 years in would explain the facts.

    Imagine that. An explanation that matches the facts.

    It seems to me Al Gore should get out of the pseudo-science business, and go back into theology, which he studied at Vanderbilt University, since it appears that he wants to alter the doctrine of Original Sin, making people feel guilty every time they exhale, spewing harmful CO2 into the atmosphere.

    Mr. Gore may change his mind when he learns about these important facts, but don't hold your breath.

"As a parent of two grade-schoolers and a natural resources policy expert, I've heard some whoppers about global warming," says author Holly Fretwell, whose book, "The Sky's Not Falling! Why It's OK to Chill about Global Warming," is specifically designed to set the record straight. "If you're as tired as I am of the environmental bill of goods our kids are being handed at school, now's your chance to tell the world!"

In her book, Prof. Fretwell shows kids 9-12 that it's human ingenuity and adaptability – not a mindless fear of change – that are most likely to guarantee the Earth a healthy future. Fretwell brings genuine educational credentials and practical experience to the environmental debate, giving kids the straight scoop about global warming – and the potentially devastating human and economic consequences of politically motivated responses to it.

Can it really be that human innovation and creativity, combined with individual choice, will yield better environmental outcomes than the draconian, self-congratulatory approaches advocated by Al Gore and his Hollywood friends? Yes!

Indeed, in her book, Fretwell gets kids excited about science and economics, and shows it's human ingenuity combined with an "enviropreneurial" spirit that will lead America to a bright environmental future, not government programs controlled by giant, growth-killing bureaucracies.

[HisDaughter]

Excellent article PR!  Thanks!