the myth about
global warming

Notice I did not write: the myth of global warming, but rather the myth "about" global warming.
It is getting a little warmer lately. But if you believe the scientists whose work led to the conclusions in this article, it simply has nothing to do with human activity, and there is nothing we can do to prevent it.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- Barack Hussein said Friday that opponents of his energy bill are disputing the evidence of global warming in a cynical ploy to undermine efforts to curb pollution and steer the nation to greener energy sources. Obama says some opponents "make cynical claims that contradict the overwhelming scientific evidence when it comes to climate change ..." For example, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Manufacturers oppose reducing emissions by allowing companies to buy and sell permits to pollute, a system known as cap and trade.  [This "cap & trade" thing is a whole other fiasco for separate discussion in another post.]

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 Below I have included excerpts from another "cynical claim" that contradicts the myth that human industry is causing "global warming" ... and the accompanying myth that humans can affect any significant change in the world's average temperature. I think this author and his colleagues know a little something about the subject (review his credentials at the end). 

Twin Ice Cores From Greenland Reveal History of Climate Change, More

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Earth in Space, Vol. 9, No. 2, October 1996, pp. 12-13. © 1996 American Geophysical Union. Permission is hereby granted to journalists to use this material so long as credit is given, and to teachers to use this material in classrooms.

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Locked within two cores of ancient ice is evidence of unprecedented swings in Earth's climate throughout the ages. These icy archives tell us that large, rapid, global change is more the norm for the Earth's climate than is stasis.

by R. Alley, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park; P. Mayewski, University of New Hampshire, Durham; D. Peel, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, England; and B. Stauffer, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Two projects conducted from 1989 to 1993 collected parallel ice cores just 30 kilometers apart from the central part of the Greenland ice sheet. Each core is more than 3 kilometers deep and extends back 110,000 years. Scientists who have studied the cores agree that the Earth experienced large, rapid, regional-to-global climate oscillations through most of the last 110,000 years, of a scale that agricultural- and industrial-age humans did not face. Though a few of the stadial/interstadial oscillations such as the Younger Dryas event were known for decades, many more were found in the first Greenland deep ice cores, but most of the oscillations occurred in ice from close to bedrock where flow may have disturbed the climatic record. In the new cores, these events are recorded far enough above the bed that ice flow is unlikely to have altered the early section of the 110,000-year climatic record. The almost perfect match back to this date between records from the two cores should dispel any lingering doubt about the climatic origin of the events.

These millennial-scale events represent large climate deviations that probably include change in temperature of many degrees Celsius, twofold changes in snow accumulation, large changes in how much wind-blown dust and sea salt were carried by the atmosphere, and large changes in methane concentration. Changes during these events commonly occur over decades or less. Shifts in the patterns of atmospheric circulation could explain the rapidity and magnitude of these events. Most recently, subtle versions of these rapid climate change events were identified through the reconstruction of atmospheric circulation patterns in the Holocene portion of the Greenland ice record. Major climatic change events are also recorded in the isotopic temperature record of the Vostok core from central East Antarctica, but not as clearly as in cores from Greenland.

Ice Cores Challenge Standing Theories

Initial interpretation of the ice cores indicated that the large, rapid climate oscillations that dominate the record of the last 110,000 years also persisted through the previous warm period, the Eemian, which took place about 120,000–130,000 years ago. Both cores also show rapid oscillations in climate during that time period, but with different timing and character. In both cores, there is evidence of ice flow beginning at or slightly above the depth at which difference in their climate records appears—roughly 2800 m, or approximately 110,000 years ago. Ice flow disturbs the climate record by allowing ice from different layers to mix. The amounts of gases in both cores differ from those of the Vostok, Antarctica core, where the Eemian era ice is undisturbed by ice flow. Much remains to be learned about Eemian climate from these cores. Just as they were needed to confirm the rapid oscillations observed in older cores, a core from a site where the Eemian is farther above the bed and thus is less subject to flow disturbance will provide the best information. Scientists are already looking at sites in North Greenland and Antarctica capable of delivering such records.
    Measurements of gas-bubble compositions from Antarctic cores provide the best paleorecords of CO₂₂ in the Greenland ice is more complex than interpreting it in the Antarctic ice. However, the results do not question earlier findings about the increase of the atmospheric CO₂ concentration at the end of the last glaciation and a steady increase since the beginning of the industrial age. concentrations. Greenlandic records indicate some unexplained "noise"—data that may be added by random processes not related to the true environmental record or just plain high-frequency unexplained data—possibly related to chemical reactions with the more abundant carbonate dust in Greenland ice. Scientists agree that interpreting the record of CO

Ice Cores Lead to Progress in Related Research

Great progress is being made on more basic science as well. The ability to count annual layers in the cores well into the glacial period and probably through 110,000 years will help to answer questions about the timing of the glacial periods and the usefulness of radiocarbon calibrations. The use of volcanic markers (such as dust and certain gases) and atmospheric-oxygen isotopic ratios to determine the ages of ice cores and ocean records greatly extends scientists' ability to map climate changes and understand their causes.
    Reconstruction of atmospheric circulation patterns and their changes over time from chemical indicators and dust sources provides new insight into the large, rapid changes documented in the cores. Vigorous work on the air-snow transfer function for chemicals and particulates is clarifying the significance of the paleoclimatic records. Glacier geophysics and flow modeling, coupled with physical and electrical studies of ice cores, are leading to better understanding of the ice cores and ice-sheet behavior, and possible contributions to sea level change. Many studies are underway to help understand the Greenland record in more detail. Scientists expect to use the cores to learn more about changes in atmospheric acids, past extraterrestrial impacts, humankind's influence on the chemistry of the atmosphere, and details of Holocene climate variability.
Source: Eos, May 28, 1996, p. 209.

the Author of this article (Paul Mayewski)...

was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on July 5, 1946. He received a B.A. with Honors from the Department of Geological Sciences at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1968, a Ph.D. from the Institute of Polar Studies and the Department of Geology and Mineralogy at the Ohio State University in 1973, and from 1973–1975 was a postdoctoral student in the Institute for Quaternary Studies at the University of Maine at Orono. He joined the faculty of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of New Hampshire in 1975 and was appointed full professor in 1985.
Today his research team provides a primary building block for one of the better-known global change facilities in the world, the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space. As Director of Climate Change Research Center, which he founded, he has led more than 25 expeditions to the Antarctic, the Arctic, and the Himalayas. His early research in the Antarctic was honored by the naming of an Antarctic mountain, Mayewski Peak. Many of these expeditions entered uncharted regions and resulted in the ascent of several previously unclimbed peaks in the Antarctic. His expeditions to the Arctic as chief scientist of the Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two from 1987 to 1993 resulted in the recovery of a more than 110,000-year long record of climate change that is now recognized as vitally important to the understanding of climate change.  [Recognized by, apparently, everyone except Al Gore and Barack Obama.]


  

Brother Baa-aa-rock is serving Kool-Aid, if you'd like to join him in a drink. 
Washington (DC) AP -- President Barack Obama on Wednesday dangled $5 billion in federal grants to states willing to undertake a top-to-bottom overhaul of their schools in support of White House priorities.

Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus bill included the education grants - more money than any president has ever had for overhauling schools - for which states can compete. Only Education Secretary Arne Duncan - not Congress - has control over who gets it. And only some states, perhaps 10 to 20, will actually get the money.

The administration can't really tell states and schools what to do, since education has been largely a state and local responsibility throughout the history of the U.S. But the grants give Obama considerable leverage. He sees the test score data and charter schools, which are publicly funded but independent of local school boards, as solutions to the problems that plague public education.

[Of course, Barack has also been seeing fairies and unicorns flying around the Oval Office, so ... ?]

The national teachers unions disagree. They say student achievement is much more than a score on a standardized test and say it's a mistake to rely so heavily on charter schools.

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The national teachers unions disagrees because they don't want to be held accountable for their laziness and failures. Period. That's why teachers' unions exists: to prevent public school teachers from being held accountable. My experience is: if the pay of public school teachers was actually tied to performance (real performance), then only about one in every twenty would earn enough to pay his or her rent.

The public school system should be abolished for all but the poorest of the poor. Every other parent should have to either pay for their children's education ... or teach them personally.
Yes. It would be a huge sacrifice. The parents' "standard of living" might even drop a level or two (if you measure standard of living by how many "toys" and much junk you can purchase and accumulate over the course of your lifetime). So what? Our real standard of living would collectively improve. The standard that is measured by integrity, sacrifice, building strong relationships with one's children, and passing on lessons of character.

The law? Providing your own children with an education would be mandatory, and one would have to show a case of true hardship to be permitted to send one's child to a "public school". Otherwise,  the free market (and parents' willingness to sacrifice for their children) would determine quality of education. If Bob down the street would rather spend his money on a new car or a gigantic television than on getting his child a better education ... fine. My kids will govern his when they all grow up.
As it should be.

Besides ... the public school system has become the enemy of Jesus Christ. I do not now understand, nor have I ever understood) why any true believer -- any devout Christian -- would send his or her child to a public school. It is an abomination, and shirking of one's duty as a Christian parent. Why not just skip all the pretense and send them to a school that openly teaches them to worship Satan? The people who run the public school systems, who set their policies and approve or disapprove their curricula, hate the God of the Bible.

Now, don't get all offended yet. I'm not referring to every individual teacher or principal or administrator or lunch lady. I am referring to the ones who govern the schools. No, not local school boards. The federal bureaucrats who populate the Education Department, and the lawyers who populate the offices of the ACLU. That's who sets policy and approves or disapproves curricula.

the homosexual homeland

It started in 1994 with the lesbian bride of Frankenstein, Janet Reno, and is about to become very commonplace. Homosexuals from around the world are beginning to immigrate to the United States of Gomorrah.

STOP!  Don't delete this before you read it!
Please read this article all the way through ... if you can do it without throwing up or smashing your computer in disgust.

You know how Israel is the "homeland" for the "ingathering" of Jews?
Well, homosexuals are making the United States the homeland for the ingathering of homosexuals and other freaks (i.e. "transgender").

Do you want to understand why God's blessing and protection is being removed from this country?
You need not look any further than this single issue. About this subject, God's attitude has not changed from the Old Testament to the New.

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) -- For weeks, Nathaniel Cunningham and his boyfriend secretly lived together in rural Jamaica. [I CAN ALREADY TELL THIS IS GOING TO BE A SWEET STORY ... and not slanted at all to portray homosexuality in a favorable or sympathetic light.]
They showed no affection in public and rarely spoke to neighbors.
Then one morning, Cunningham picked up a local newspaper with a front-page story under the headline, "Homosexuals Move into Residential Neighborhood." His address was listed below.
For days afterward, Cunningham said an angry mob gathered on his lawn hurling rocks and bricks and calling them "batty boys" - a Jamaican slang term for gay. Eventually, the pair grabbed what they could and fled on foot.

The story was one of many that Cunningham, now 32 and living in Worcester, recently shared with a federal immigration judge in his successful bid to win asylum in the United States. And it's similar to other stories cited by a small but growing number of other gay, lesbian and transgender asylum seekers who are using U.S. immigration courts to argue that their sexual orientation makes it too dangerous for them to return home.

"I had no choice," said Andre Azevedo, 39, a transgender man from Brazil who recently won asylum and now lives in New York. "Where I'm from, heterosexual men practice hate crimes against us like a sport, and the police do nothing to stop it."

Since 1994, sexual orientation has been grounds for asylum in the United States. That's when former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno [Frankenstein's lesbian bride] ruled in a case that persecution based on sexual orientation could be potential grounds for asylum.

Until recently, those grounds have been rarely used and such cases represent only a fraction of all asylum cases. But now immigrant and gay activists say more asylum seekers from the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean are citing sexual orientation as reasons for seeking asylum. Activists say the asylum seekers are escaping rape, persecution, violence, and threats of death from places where homosexuality is either outlawed or strongly, socially shunned.

Federal immigration law allows individuals asylum if they can prove a well-founded fear of persecution in their country of origin based upon race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group. Those applying for asylum are already in the United States, legally or illegally.

No one knows for sure just how many have sought asylum on sexual orientation grounds. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services doesn't keep data on asylum cases won on that basis.

Still, last year Immigration Equality, a New York-based nonprofit group that helps gay clients with immigration cases, successfully won 55 asylum cases using sexual orientation as grounds, a record for the organization, said the group's legal director Victoria Neilson. That's up from 30 wins in 2007 and 27 in 2006, Neilson said.

And a Worcester, Mass.-based nonprofit group, Lutheran Social Services [God is holy ... and angry about this people], has recently won five cases and is looking to help others. "I think more people are finding out that this is an option," said Lisa Laurel Weinberg, an attorney with the group.

However, not all cases for asylum based on sexual orientation have been successful. For example, a gay Brazilian man who was married in Massachusetts and whose American husband remains in the state was recently denied asylum by the Obama administration on humanitarian grounds, despite pleas from Sen. John Kerry. Genesio "Junior" Januario Oliveira had originally requested asylum because he was raped as a teenager, but an immigration judge denied the application, saying Oliveira repeatedly said in the hearing that he "was never physically harmed" by anyone in Brazil.
He was forced to return to Brazil in 2007.

Cunningham said he decided to file for asylum after working for a few years in the United States on a work visa. Cunningham said he conducted research online but couldn't find an immigration group to help him with the case. "One group said my case clashed with their Christian values."
[Oh, how "non-diverse" that group must be! What horribly unenlightened people.]

Many gay rights groups, he said, also had limited services for immigrants.
It wasn't until Cunningham connected with Jozefina Lantz, the director of immigrant services at Lutheran Social Services [these are the people with "itching ears" to whom Paul refers in 2 Timothy 4:3], that Cunningham gained support.

To win, however, Cunningham had to revisit painful moments of running from mobs in Jamaica. Even the police would point him out for persecution, he said. In successfully arguing Cunningham's case for asylum, Weinberg also said Jamaica's sodomy laws banning sex between men and "dancehall" music - whose lyrics often advocate violence against gays - made life for Cunningham unbearable.

Cunningham won asylum in January 2008.
During his asylum hearing, Azevedo had to recall violent episodes in Brazil when he and a group of transsexuals were attacked in bars. He recalled a transgender woman set on fire. Each time Azevedo said he went to police about an attack or a threat, the officers didn't even bother to file a report.
"I had such a horrific experience," said Azevedo, who was granted asylum in July. "I was always in fear of being raped, maybe even killed."

After winning their cases, both Cunningham and Azevedo have become advocates for other asylum-seekers by giving them counseling and directing them toward legal help.
In Worcester, for example, Cunningham has helped a Lebanese and three others Jamaicans win asylum with the legal help provided by the Lutheran Social Services' "LGBT Human Rights Protection Project." Another case, involving an Ugandan woman, is pending in the courts.

...I'm thinking that maybe child molesters should start seeking asylum from other countries where sexually assaulting children is either outlawed or strongly, socially shunned. What do you think?

Hey. I have an idea! Instead of wasting money and troops in Afghanistan, let's invade Massachussetts and kick somebody's ass (starting with John Kerry and Lutheran Social Services).

a justified stigma

 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Obama said Friday the U.S. will overturn a 22-year-old travel and immigration ban against people with HIV early next year. 

In 1987, the Department of Health and Human Services added the disease to the list of communicable diseases that disqualified a person from entering the U.S.

More than 56,000 new infections are reported every year in the United States.

Rachel B. Tiven, executive director of Immigration Equality (an organization that promotes immigration for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and HIV-positive people). "Now, those families can be reunited, and the United States can put its mouth where its money is: ending the stigma that perpetuates HIV transmission, supporting science and welcoming those who seek to build a life in this country."

[How touching, Rachel. I think I'm gonna cry.]

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Gee. That's just swell. Thanks Barack Hussein for yet another brilliant decision.

ONE little clarification though: It is not the stigma that perpetuates HIV transmission. It is, in the vast majority of cases, perverted, impenitent and reckless sexual behavior that perpetuates THE transmission of HIV.

There should be a stigma attached to it. It is a completely justified stigma. Unless you are among the miniscule percentage of infected people who got that way from a blood transfusion or from your mother at birth, you've earned your suffering. You've certainly been warned enough times.

How shocking for a Christian to say such harsh things!
That's what you're being tempted to think ... right?
Oh, grow up -- SPIRITUALLY. Jesus said many things just as "harsh". It's just not culturally or "politically" correct to emphasize (or even to mention) those kinds of statements anymore in this watered down, God-is-like-Santa-Claus western brand of Christianity.

Of course God will forgive you if you repent ... but that doesn't mean you won't have to suffer the natural (as opposed to eternal) consequences of your sin.
I follow the same reasoning here as someone who has been convicted of a heinous murder and is sitting in prison for the remainder of his (or her) life, with no possibility of parole. If he (or she) repents, then he (or she) will be forgiven by God and spared from hell -- granted eternal life, but he (or she) will still have to suffer the "natural" consequences (punishment) for the crime committed.

Another applicable analogy: If you insist on playing with fire after being warned over and over again, then don't cry foul when you get burned. And if you make a habit or lifestyle of starting fires (in other words, become a practicing arsonist), then don't expect to live free of "stigma" ... and don't expect to be welcomed into our communities with open arms ... or even more absurdly, to insist that you have the right to be welcomed with open arms.