question for christians

Marcia527 said:

I didn't mean to imply that
I didn't mean to imply that ALL Christians are this way. I get forwarded emails from a relative which has been to lots of other inboxes first. This relative is very intelligent and I've pointed out before how most of these forwarded things aren't true. I still get them. I just got one the day before I posted this thread and was just discouraged. I might have worded my post wrong but did not mean to group everyone together.

I have a sister who belongs to a progressive church so I shouldn't have used the blanket term Christian. I was thinking of the other relative.

mariam_11_09 said:

well the far left, very far


well the far left, very far left believe that global warming is not real either, that is it something created by the government to divert our attention away from what is real. Ummm .....what is real as you put it Marcia is that our ice-caps are melting!!

Some of these people I am talking about on the far, far left are well educated people with degrees and not one I know is a Christian.

mariam_11_09 said:

or they will drown in the rising oceans

and think the government has targeted them.

Apparently the island you are referring to only appeared when there was a low tide and was uninhabited. Global warming resolves a dispute. However some other nearby islands have also been submerged displacing the people living there as early as 1996.

Then there is Tuvalu ... slowly disappearing .... Wow!

Great, here in America we have the luxury of pretending nothing is happening or the government is out to get us.

PhillieG said:

I know...
isn't it moronic, I mean ironic?
I'm surprised there are so many cases of colon cancer in the US. We sometimes have our heads so far up our _ _ _ _ _ that you'd think we'd spot the polyps early!
;-)

DennisR said:

Well...there does appear to
Well...there does appear to be some evidence that the Earth is entering another mini Ice Age beginning several years ago, temperature recordings in the middle of growing urban centers not withstanding.
If the cooling trend does indeed continue, than the global warming issues re: whether it is indeed man caused will either be proven, if the temps continue to rise, and the Glaciers continue to melt, and the oceans continue to rise, or will be somewhat disproven when they don't.
Still, I am a believer in using sound technology to lessen our dependence upon fossil fuels, I do however wish those who are proponents of Solar, Nuclear, and Wind energy solutions would get their acts together and stop fighting amongst themselves by using pure fiction as fact and "their sky is falling" fear tactics to prove their points. If Global warming is as important and solveable through Green Energy techniques as we are led to believe, than it stands to reason that we shouldn't be blocking the construction of such facilities in the most ideal and effective locations on the continent. ie: Wyoming for the Wind generation (Prarie Chickens are scared of them), and the Mojave in California for Solar (Desert tortises might have to walk around them), and Nuclear Energy Plants wherever they are proposed (Who knows why?). There also seems to be a complete disinterest in improving any forms of public transportation that would enable people to commute to their ever dwindling job opportunities without driving. It also occurs to me that while driving does contribute to CO2 emissions, at least those emissions have some chance to be absorbed by plants which require them in order to survive, as opposed to Airplanes which deposit their considerable emissions right up there next to the ozone layer with no chance whatsoever of them doing anything but adding to the problem. I calculated that Nancy Polosi puts more pollution into the atmosphere in one trip hauling her "pretty little head" to California than I will contribute in my entire lifetime driving my truck...and that's without taking any carbon credits at all for growing my own garden.

PhillieG said:

Global warming
I think it's the planet's way of telling us that something is wrong. Many times throughout the billions of years of the existence of the earth, life has been destroyed over and over again by natural phenomena. It's going to happen again, that's just how nature works. Dinosaurs were wiped out which gave way for mammals to start their rise to prominence and the cycle will continue again and again with other forms of life being the "top dog" so to speak until our star, the sun, eventually burns itself out. That is unless we speed things up and destroy our rein of "ruling" the earth ahead of schedule.
-p

PhillieG said:

So
You admit then to having eggs. Which came first, the chicken or global warming?