"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path."ť Psalm 119:105
God and global warming
posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 :: 11:17 AM
While the UN continues to push for reduction of greenhouse gases because they supposedly contribute to global warming (er, I mean, "climate change" since the earth stopped "warming" several years ago) the evidence continues to pour in that the problem is in fact, global cooling, not global warming; and furthermore, that there is precious little we insignificant humans can do about it, since global climate trends are powered by solar activity, not human activity.
Furthermore, that whole ice cap melting scenario that is supposed to one day cause the destruction of New York City, according to a Hollywood movie, is also being debunked. A study just out finds that rises in sea level are not due to ice melt, but to "warming of the oceans through expansion." And what is causing ocean water warming? The sun, not man. Makes sense, if the sun just completed a 60- year warming cycle. Of course, if the sun is now going into a quiet cycle, as many scientists believe it might be, then ocean temps will level out again. The Scriptures teach us in Genesis that the earth will go through cycles of warming and cooling, which is as out of the provenance of man as is the change of day to night, and it turns out that God has been proven right once again.
“While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
Winter and summer,
And day and night
Shall not cease.” Genesis 8:22
I keep seeing ads on TV and the Internet, pleading for everyone to help stop global warming, or else catastrophe will result! Has anyone else seen the ads for that new documentary that National Geographic is doing, Six Degrees? It's about how one degree of warming will do this much damage, two degrees this much, etc., until we have hit six degrees of warming when we will be in serious trouble.
Scary stuff, and all scientifically accurate I am sure, if the problem were six degrees of warming. Fortunately, the problem isn't global warming. It's global cooling. A new article in Investor's Business Daily reports on a study just released by the Danish Meteorological Institute, analyzing several centuries of data and observations of solar activity. Their conclusion: no matter how hard they try, they cannot get global temperature cycles to track with CO2 emissions and industrialization. No matter how hard they try. However, global temperatures have tracked with increases and decreases in solar activity consistently and across the board - for several centuries.
Here's the real scary stuff: the sun looks to be entering a "quiet" period, by its behavior over the past two years, which might account for the frigid winters we've been experiencing. The last time the sun was in a similar period was from 1650 to 1715, and temperatures in Europe were so cool that there was crop failure in the northern regions. I wonder how long it will take everyone who is staking their careers on global warming to get off that bandwagon and buy stock in wood stoves and wool sweaters?
"Four Sudanese refuges were killed by Egyptian soldiers in front of IDF troops on Wednesday night. As IDF troops watched the refugees approach the border, Egyptian soldiers opened fire on the group, killing two and wounding a third refugee.
"One of the men managed to reach the fence, according to reports, where a literal tug of war developed between the Egyptian and Israeli soldiers. One of the IDF soldiers involved told Channel 10 that they let go of the man’s arms after the Egyptian forces pointed their weapons at them. "They were aiming loaded weapons straight at us, I was afraid they were going to shoot us," he said.
"The Egyptians soldiers then dragged the refugee away from the border fence and used clubs and stones to beat him and another refugee to death. Reports indicate that entire event was caught on IDF videotape. Both Egyptian and Israeli officials have said that an immediate investigation will be launched.
"Meanwhile, Israeli MK’s are demanding an end to the deportation of Sudanese refugees to Egypt. "The refugees need protection and sanctuary, and the Jewish people's history as well as the values of democracy and humanity pose a moral imperative for us to give them that shelter,” said the lawmakers in a petition to protect those refugees already in Israel. So far, 63 MKs have signed the petition."
Now here is some frightful food for thought. Egypt is supposed to be a Muslim "moderate" country, a civilized and enlightened Muslim country. They are, after all, only one of two Arab countries which have a peace treaty with Israel (the other is Jordan). So while the civilized Muslim moderates are beating (Christian) Sudanese refugees to death, the U.S. is planning a 20 billion advanced technology arms deal to Saudi Arabia (one of the uncivilized and immoderate states) and Iran is screaming about Israel's 'horrific' human rights record?
If this were an episode of Star Trek, in which Kirk is trying to overload the alien computer and fry its mechanical brain so he can regain control of the ship, this illogical conundrum would certainly have done it.
Al Gore said over the weekend that "the planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton." He does have a point, in that the media tends to focus attention on the inconsequential while matters of import are ignored, but I have to take issue that it is a matter of import that the planet is in distress. It would be important, if the planet actually were in distress, but is it?
When you consider that the facts do not support his statements (and here and here, as well), then you have to ask yourself, does Al really believe the planet is in distress? If it was something he truly believed, would he himself be leaving such a large carbon footprint? Wouldn't someone who was convinced that the planet was in distress scale back, scale down, conserve, and eliminate needless luxuries so that his individual impact on global warming would be as minimal as possible, instead of one of most major?
The science does not agree with Al, and Al himself does not even agree with Al, so if the planet is not in distress, why is Al on this crusade? Is crying wolf merely a tool being wielded to gain 1) attention 2) money 3) power? Al has benefited from his global warming crusade in all three areas, who had lost in all three after the 2000 election.
What is really in distress are the planet's people, not the planet. The thing that grieves my heart is the attention, money, and power being wasted on the non- issue of global warming, while real children are in real distress, and in real need of deliverance from evil. That would be a crusade worth spending attention, money, and power on, but, we are living in the age of the this world's kingdoms, and the murder and slavery of children is not trendy enough for compassionate and peace- loving progressives to be concerned about.
“People who think the Bush years have usurped freedoms and reversed decades of progress “don’t even begin to know what junta really means nor what it feels like to live in a dictatorship.”
"Today’s anti-Bush rallies in the U.S. demand the very opposite of what the pro-freedom Soviets rallied for. By advocating for the government control of economy, the ideological monopoly of the Left, and massive redistribution of wealth, American leftists espouse the same ideas as the backward Soviet hardliners - same song, different verse.
"These self-absorbed “progressives” don’t want to hear about the strife of the Soviet people who had learned the hard way that these ideas only result in massive poverty and loss of freedoms for everyone involved. In effect, the leftist rallies spit in the face of every victim of communist oppression, living or dead. That count is in the hundreds of millions.
"There’s nothing heroic in disparaging democratic institutions, dishonoring the American flag, and carrying placards with anti-capitalist, anti-American slogans pre-printed for them by communist front groups with the money donated by corrupt foreign dictators. The protesters absurdly accuse this free country of being a fascist dictatorship, fully aware that an hour later they’ll be drinking expensive coffee at Starbucks - and not dragged to a political prison and getting their teeth knocked in - a likely prospect for dissidents in the countries whose leaders they idolize.
"They may believe their protest leads to more freedom - but freedom can’t be increased by abusing and disparaging it."
My husband and I were in the Ukraine in 1992, and we saw with our own eyes the practical fruit of "progressive" policy enacted by the former communist government. People who never smiled, empty store shelves, bread lines at 4 in the morning, because if you wait till 7 in the morning to get your bread, there won't be any. Of course, you can't make your own bread, because there is no flour on those empty store shelves. Broken down factories, plumbing, public works; everything broken down and disintegrating. The ladies room at the main public building did not even have any toilets in it -- just open sewer pipes in the floor. There were warning signs posted by the river not to fish in the river, because the water was contaminated from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown, but people fished in the river anyway -- they couldn't get enough food otherwise. And no churches, no Christian bookstores, no Christian radio stations, no mention of Jesus Christ anywhere -- because atheism was the state religion.
That is the utopia the "progressives" in this country want for us and for our children. With themselves excluded, of course, because the ruling class in such states never suffers the same fate as the serfs who are forced to support them.
The homo[s-x]ual lobby is merely an oppressed minority just reasoning with fellow citizens to live and let live, lobbying for the same rights all citizens enjoy, like the right to life (oh wait, that is not yet a right, sorry), liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, right?
Well, let's see. In Italy an archbishop who reminded lawmakers of their duty to uphold the biblical definition of marriage and oppose legalizing same- sex unions now must serve flanked by policemen, because those same tolerant activists are threatening to kill him.
In California, the tolerant activists are once again pushing for privileged status in California's public schools, even going so far as to eliminate such "oppressive" hate speech against gays as "mom" and "dad". The gay lobby, perhaps emboldened by nationwide legislative success it sees just around the corner, has threatened to "bury" the Capitol Resource Institute, which works among California lawmakers to uphold biblical and family values, if they continue in their first amendment- protected activities of presenting the biblical view of marriage and family to lawmakers. "We demand tolerance to practice our abominable lifestyle in public, AND to cram it down the throats of your children, and not only tolerance, but acceptance and approval," the homo[s-x]ual lobby is screaming, "and we also demand to silence every statement not only against our lifestyle, but in support of any and all other lifestyles!"
Oh, but that couldn't happen here in America, could it? Keep sleeping, church, and we will find out.
The war in which we are engaged, against Islamist terrorists, is not by any means the first war we have successfully waged against terror, or against Islamists. And the kidnapping of Britain's sailors is not the first time Islamists have captured Europeans on the high seas. When our country was still young, under Thomas Jefferson the third president, we paid tribute, as did all European countries whose merchant ships sailed the Mediterranean Sea, to the Barbary States of northern Africa. Northern Africa had been home to pirates who preyed upon European shipping since the Vandals settled there during the collapse of the Roman Empire. Of course, by the time Thomas Jefferson was president, all the pirates of the Barbary States were Muslim, and had been for a very long time.
In 1800, one of our brave naval officers, William Bainbridge, was sent to carry the agreed tribute to the dey, or ruler, of Algiers. While Bainbridge was in the harbor, directly under the guns of the fortress, the dey suddenly ordered him to transport his ambassador to Constantinople, while flying the Algerine flag at the American ship's masthead. Bainbridge refused, saying that the Americans were not the dey's slaves. But the pirate haughtily answered, "You pay me tribute, by which you become my slaves, and therefore I have a right to order you as I think proper."
As the guns of the fort were pointed straight at him, and resistance would bring about the destruction of his ship and slavery for his crew, Bainbridge had no choice but to obey. But as soon as he was out of gunshot, and long before he had lost sight of Algiers, he ordered the dey's flag hauled down and again hoisted our stars and stripes.
Of course, Bainbridge was very indignant at the way his country had been treated. ... While still in Constantinople, Bainbridge wrote home, saying "I hope I shall never again be sent to Algiers with tribute unless I am authorized to deliver it from the mouth of our cannon." The insulting and treacherous behavior of Algiers and the other Barbary States roused the anger of our countrymen. But Jefferson once remarked that what had happened proved the truth of Franklin's famous words, "If you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you;" and declared that no more tribute should be paid.
We did not pay any more tribute, and we severely crippled Mediterranean piracy, by forcing the Barbary States to respect us or pay the consequences. I fear the problem today is that too many of us are not indignant at the way our country was treated on 9-11, and too many of us think that making ourselves sheep is the best plan of action. Why we possibly think that, I have no idea; human nature has not changed so much in two hundred years. The wolves will not lie down with the lambs until the reign of the Prince of Peace, and if we expect it to happen in this era of the world's history, we are deluding ourselves.
A native Dutchman was shot by police, in an incident in Holland when the Dutchman intervened with "Muslim youths" who were harassing a pregnant Dutchwoman. This sparked outrage among the native Dutch citizenry, who have endured Muslim aggression with little police intervention for years (summary here). The Utrecht Revolt inspired the first draft of the European Declaration of Independence [from the EU] over at The Brussels Journal. God speed to the Old World, but I seriously doubt the power- mongers in Brussels are going to go home meekly. What Europe really needs is honest- to- goodness revival, just as America experienced prior to our Declaration; for "where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." It might also be true that where the Spirit of the Lord is not, there is tyranny.
In the meantime, the EU court is going to try to force Poland to pay restitution to a young woman who was refused an abortion inside Poland's not- so- sovereign- anymore borders. The EU court believes that simply because murdering an innocent human being is illegal in Poland, that is no excuse for Poland to unfairly deny abortions to young women. The EU is also going to try to force Poland, Malta, and Italy to recognize gay "marriage." Let's hope Poland fights this. I wonder who a sovereign nation appeals to from the EU high court? Just as Thomas Jefferson did, you appeal to God. Time to get on board with the European Declaration, I suppose. Poland's greatest export is their beautiful china from Boleslawiec, if anyone wants to support the country.
Since we last checked in with Al Gore and his great global warming crusade, the BBC aired a documentary, The Great Global Warming Swindle, in the UK. This documentary is not in the line up on the Discovery Channel, either. London's Daily Mail reviewed it, as did Pajamas Media, and our own intellectual powerhouse, Thomas Sowell. Meanwhile, in "global warming" news, scientists who disagree with a human cause of global warming, or that we are experiencing global warming at all, have been threatened with death (leftist activists are so like the medieval catholic church when one disagrees with their pet theories). In spite of the danger from radical leftists, a prominent French scientist has become a warming skeptic, based on the evidence. What evidence? Live Science reports on the solar cause of global warming, while Australian archaeologists have just determined that the great city at Angkor Wat was abandoned due to climate change ... 500 years ago. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that predates human industrialization. Staying down under for a moment, oceanographers are puzzled by a giant ultra- cold whirlpool that has formed in the ocean off the continent's southwestern coast. And in another great bit of irony, the recent North Pole expedition "meant to bring attention to global warming" was called off due to "extreme cold temperatures". It seems to me that if the earth was getting warmer, it wouldn't be getting colder. But maybe that is just me.
More concerning the General Pace and Senator Warner incident: it turns out the Democratic leaders fear to tread where Republican Senator Warner boldly rushed in. But General Pace can't please everyone on his side of the debate, it seems: a watchdog group rebuked the general because his comments on gays in the military were "too weak." ::: sigh ::: And while we are on the subject of the morality (or lack thereof) of the homo[s-x]ual lifestyle, five Episcopal priests in the Boston area are refusing to perform any marriages at all unless gay "marriage" becomes accepted, while the openly homo[s-x]ual Episcopal priest that started it all today equated his struggle to make the gay lifestyle welcome in the Church with the ministry of Jesus. Next some lunatic will claim Jesus meant to legitimize idol worship. And the French, for all their faults, still refuse to extend the state's blessing to gay "marriage."
Last but not least, to add insult to injury, the Illinois school district intent on indoctrinating 14- year- olds into the homo[s-x]ual lifestyle today banned parents from attending the freshman seminar that started the ruckus. Parents are not the enemy, and any school district that thinks they are does not deserve the privilege of educating young minds.
"The attacks against us are becoming more brazen. Drug cartels have instructed their people to go down fighting, to do whatever is necessary to get the narcotics through," said Rick Flores, Webb County sheriff in Laredo, Texas.
Now if citizens of one country were allowed by their government to invade the borders of another country, attacking the border guards of that country with lethal force if necessary, isn't that an act of war? Drug cartels are not arms of the Mexican government, that is true, but it also seems true that Mexico could be doing a lot more to discourage the whole concept of illegal border crossing among its citizens. And, if the Mexican government is so impotent that it cannot exert any influence or control over the illegal invasion of its citizens into another sovereign country, then it is time for that impotent government to be replaced with one that can respect the borders of its neighbors.
In the glow of Al Gore's "documentary" An Inconvenient Truthrecent Oscar win, the news came out that the Gore mansion complex uses 20 times the energy that most American families use during the winter. His "carbon footprint" is one of the biggest among the global warming doomsayers. Okay, I'll believe the hype about global warming destroying the planet when you do, Al.
In the meantime, my home state of Colorado experienced its coldest winter on record this year. We had snow on the ground for over two months straight, something you would expect to see in Buffalo, New York, but which I have never experienced in my 40+ years as a Colorado resident. We are known, rather, for our mild winters. If this is global warming, I can't take it anymore, it's too cold! And in a rare bit of irony, the Minnesota Public Radio forum on global warming was cancelled ... due to a blizzard.
Now National Geographic is reporting that the melting of the polar ice caps on Mars suggests a solar, not human, cause of global warming, something the scientists at globalwarming.org have been saying for some time. When the biggest polluter in the state of Washington is Mount St Helens year after year*, I tend to agree that human industrialization has not had as much an impact on global climate change as some energy-hogging celebrities would like us to believe.
*“Mount St Helens the State's No. 1 Air Polluter,” Seattle Times, December 1, 2004.
Anti- illegal immigration congressman Tom Tancredo was slated to deliver a speech yesterday at Michigan State University Law School, at the invitation of the school's college Republicans, and Young Americans for Freedom. Protestors who disagreed with the congressman's immigration policies disrupted his speech by pulling the fire alarm, and spitting on, kicking, and punching student supporters. Why is it that "peace lovers" invariably turn violent when their attempts to supress the free speech rights of dissenters fail?
First, a little background. This November, Coloradoans can either vote for or against Amendment 43 to the state constitution, which would prohibit gay marriage, or vote for or against Referendum I, which would grant domestic partners additional rights and responsibilities previously reserved for married couples.
The pro- homo[s-x]ual agenda folks started a local ad campaign which shows a dog mooing instead of barking. The idea is that some creatures are just born different, so they can’t help being cows mistakenly born in a dog’s body. To dog parents. I guess to atheists and evolutionists this all must make some kind of sense, but it is pretty ridiculous for most people. Anyway, Focus on the Family, which is based in Colorado, countered with an ad campaign in which a dog says “woof” instead of “moo,” directing interested parties to the website www.no-moo-lies.com.
“But
internal Pentagon briefings show intelligence analysts have reached a
wholly different conclusion after studying Islamic scripture and the
backgrounds of suicide terrorists. They’ve found that most Muslim
suicide bombers are in fact students of the Quran who are motivated by
its violent commands – making them, as strange as it sounds to the
West, "rational actors" on the Islamic stage.”
See The Religion of Peace for more statistics about the “bloody” edges of Islam: the theory that the vast majority of conflicts in the modern world today take place at the boundaries where the Islamic world meets any other civilization.
PRESIDENT KARZAI:
“Ma’am, before I go to the remarks by my brother, President
Musharraf, terrorism was hurting us way before Iraq or September 11.
The president mentioned some examples of it. These extremist
forces were killing people in Afghanistan and around for years, closing
schools, ----- burning mosques, ----- killing children, ----- uprooting
vineyards with
vine trees, grapes hanging on them, ----- forcing populations to
poverty and
misery.
“They came to America on September 11, but
they were attacking you before September 11 in other parts of the
world. We are a witness in Afghanistan as to what they are and how they
can hurt. ----- You are a witness in New York.
“Do
you forget people jumping off the 80th floor or 70th floor ----- when
the
planes hit them? ----- Can you imagine what it will be for a man or a
woman
to jump off that high?
“Who did that? ----- And
where are they now? And
how do we fight them, how do we get rid of them, other than going after
them? ----- Should we wait for them to come and kill us
again?
“That’s
why we need more action around the world, in Afghanistan and elsewhere,
to get them defeated. Extremism, their allies, terrorists and the likes
of them.”
*** Original post dated 09/26: Afghan president Hamid Karzai responded to a reporter’s question this morning about the war on terror; his answer was the most eloquent exposition on the war on terror we have seen this year. The link goes to the must- see video.
Both of these statements are believed to be true by radical Islamists. While I cannot say for sure that the green flag of Allah will not ever fly over the Vatican, I think I can say for sure that Jerusalem will not ever be the capital of the Muslim caliphate. Jerusalem is the city where Jehovah God has chosen to put His name forever. I do not think He will share His glory or the place of His name with Allah.
Visit with Christine Miller awhile and let's share our thoughts on homeschooling, education, and life.
:: home :: rss site feed
:: archives :: email me
next biblical feast day
feast of trumpets
7th biblical month new moon
:: projected ::
sunset, wed 1 oct 2008
(feast days run from sunset to sunset the next day)
this holiday is a sabbath celebrating the feast of trumpets
"The Story of the Romans provides an introductory context for the culture and ideas so foundational to the development of Western thought.”
Anne Weiland :: The Old Schoolhouse Magazine
:: read a chapter from this book
:: more books
"For new and veteran homeschool families alike, this extensive new release from the editors of The Old Schoolhouse Magazine serves as a homeschool convention in a book. It details today's most viable education models, helping parents formulate an educational game plan and choose teaching methodologies. There are more than twenty contributors." Including Christine Miller, who wrote a chapter on Classical Education.
christine's reading
I am researching the holy days which were instituted by God as a celebration of the Messiah, instead of celebrating the holy days which were instituted by man to honor nature in place of nature's God.
:: Israel's Feast - Wooten
:: Annals - Ussher
