1. Religion's role in the climate debate

Comment #205659 by Dane on July 7, 2008 at 3:40 pm

Brian,

Brian Sussman is an award-winning meteorologist who quoted Michael Crichton. I was just quoting Brian Sussman.

Gregg, here's a link to the page just before that PDF document from post #54. Just click on the link on the page.

http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/13681217.html

2. Religion's role in the climate debate

Comment #205649 by Dane on July 7, 2008 at 3:27 pm

Read the two links I posted, I know pollution is bad, and I know temperatures may be on the rise, but is human induced output of CO2 to blame?

To quote Brian Sussman who quotes Michael Crichton;

[quote]In his must-read eco-thriller, State of Fear, Michael Crichton creates a brilliant visual to assist us in wrapping our minds around the components of Earth's atmosphere. On page 387, he likens the atmosphere to a football field. The goal line to the 78 yard-line contains nothing but nitrogen. Oxygen fills the next 21 yards to the 99 yard-line. The final yard, except for four inches, is argon, a wonderfully mysterious inert gas useful for putting out electronic fires. Three of the remaining four inches is crammed with a variety of minor, but essential, gases like neon, helium, hydrogen and methane. And the last inch? Carbon dioxide. One inch out of a hundred-yard field! At this point I like to add, if you were in the stands looking down on the action, you would need binoculars to see the width of that line. And the most important point-how much of that last inch is contributed by man-made activities? Envision a line about as thin as a dime standing on edge.[/quote]

Mars, Jupiter, Pluto and Triton are all increasing in temperature as well:

Climate change hits Mars
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1720024.ece

New Storm on Jupiter Hints at Climate Change
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060504_red_jr.html

Global Warming on Pluto Puzzles Scientists
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/pluto_warming_021009.html

MIT researcher finds evidence of global warming on Neptune's largest moon
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1998/triton.html

and then there are the Inaccuracies in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth
http://www.newparty.co.uk/articles/inaccuracies-gore.html


Is our "dime standing on edge" amount of CO2 to blame for this increase in temperature or are there other aspects that we're ignoring?

Please read the other two links I posted above.

Just like Atheists say regarding religion, "The majority isn't always correct." Take a look at the alternate perspective.

31,000 American scientists have signed a petition against global warming.
http://www.oism.org/pproject/

3. Religion's role in the climate debate

Comment #205596 by Dane on July 7, 2008 at 1:48 pm

I'm "agnostic" in regards to Global Warming...

http://media.kusi.clickability.com/documents/Comments on Global Warming02.pdf
A paper by John Coleman, Founder of The Weather Channel

also,

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/06/global_whining_vs_the_truth.html
An article by Brian Sussman, an Award-winning television meteorologist.

4. Aliens need Christ's redemption, too

Comment #203282 by Dane on July 2, 2008 at 3:01 pm

From what I gather, the writer of the article wants us to go to our local bookstore and move all copies of the Bible into the Science Fiction section (or all Science Fiction/Fantasy books into the religious section?).

Silly christians. No wonder we haven't had 1st Contact (or whatever you'd call it), the "aliens" must just look at our planet and roll their eyes(or whatever they'd have).

5. Lawsuit filed over 'I Believe' plates in S.C.

Comment #196845 by Dane on June 20, 2008 at 1:36 pm

From what I've gathered from the above article, it is just a novelty plate similar to the ones we have in Ontario.

http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/dandv/vehicle/graphic1.htm

Big deal.

I think we should ban the Ontario Square and Round Dance Federation's license plate too.

6. Rapture site sends unbelievers their last chance ... via email

Comment #195056 by Dane on June 17, 2008 at 4:00 pm

For an annual fee of $20 (£10), I will send out emails* every day confirming that the Rapture did not happen.


*emails may include: advertisements for Viagra, hot XXX action and the occasional "legal" marijuana alternative to tempt you before the return... Jesus don't want no sissies!

7. An Atheist Goes Undercover to Join the Flock of Mad Pastor John Hagee

Comment #176540 by Dane on May 7, 2008 at 2:53 pm

"Hello," I said, taking a deep breath. "My name is Matt. My father was an alcoholic circus clown who used to beat me with his oversize shoes."

The group twittered noticeably. Morgan's eyes opened to tea-saucer size.

I closed my own eyes and kept going, immediately realizing what a mistake I'd made. There was no way this story was going to fly. But there was no turning back.

"He'd be sitting there in his costume, sucking down a beer and watching television," I heard myself saying. "And then sometimes, even if I just walked in front of the TV, he'd pull off one of those big shoes and just, you know -- whap!"

I looked around the table and saw three flatlined, plainly indifferent psyches plus one mildly unnerved Morgan staring back at me. I could tell that my coach and former soldier had been briefly possessed by the fear that a terrible joke was being played on his group. But then I actually saw him dismissing the thought -- after all, who would do such a thing? I managed to tie up my confession with a tale about turning into a drug addict in my mid-twenties -- at least that much was true -- and being startled into sobriety and religion after learning of my estranged clown father's passing from cirrhosis.

It was a testament to how dysfunctional the group was that my story flew more or less without comment.

8. Resentment Over Darwin Evolves Into a Documentary

Comment #165586 by Dane on April 21, 2008 at 6:22 pm

Phadrus, I think you pretty much nailed it on the head. I'm far from "smart" but damn... some people... wow...