OK, here's my latest entry on the Global Warming debate. (Remember I do this because my son Connor was openly mocked by his teacher and class mates for suggesting that it wasn't man made and cooling is our bigger worry.) For the record, I don't believe that man is increasing the warming on the planet. I believe it's volcanic activity, sun spots and natural cycles of the earth. I've been around for the global cooling scare and the global warming scare and now Climate Change. What!? The climate changes! That's not news to a Minnesotan, our climate changes every 5 hours! I do believe that we need to be good stewards of the earth, but not extremists about it. Many of the world's poor will suffer the worst if we do what is being proposed by those in Copenhagen.
Here are a few links: Snow in Australia - in the summer! Canada has one of the worst freezing snow stormsever. Harsh cold weather in Massachusetts kills dolphins and turtles. It's all about the moneyas poorer nations want the rich to pay more. Here's a youtube video done by Minnesotans 4 Global Warming called Hide the Decline, and lastly, here's an article about cooling problems for the future.
Here are some more good links from Greg Boyd's blog as well. BTW the "Anthropogenic Theory" is that humans are to blame for global warming (if there really is global warming :) )
* For those who are interested, the best critiques of the anthropogenic theory I read several years ago were B. Lomborg, Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming; P. Michaels, ed. Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming; and S. Singer and D. Avery, Unstoppable Global Warming – Every 1,500 Years. Several of the more interesting websites on the topic I found are http://www.climate-skeptic.com
http://www.climatepolice.com/
http://www.marshall.org/
Posted by: Tom | December 15, 2009 at 08:08 AM
Here are some more links for the global warming debate...journalists freeze waiting to get in - http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/12/15/journalists-freeze-waiting-get-global-warming-conference - 100 reasons climate change is normal http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/146138
Posted by: Pastor Rob | December 15, 2009 at 05:02 PM
A group of journalists stood for many hours in near freezing temperatures Monday waiting to get into the United nations climate change conference in Copenhagen. Marvelously among them was Associated Press science writer Seth Borenstein who regularly reports on the dire consequences of -- wait for it! -- global warming.
Posted by: Steve Hadrits | December 16, 2009 at 12:36 AM
I think it is great that we have a pastor that stays on top of current events. Way to go Pastor Rob!
Posted by: Steve Hadrits | December 17, 2009 at 07:26 PM