Please plot the "human contribution to global temperature" on this chart.
Posted on 02/08/2006 12:52:43 PM PST by familyop
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- A group of 86 evangelical Christian leaders are reportedly supporting a major initiative to fight global warming.
Warning "millions of people could die in this century because of climate change," the leaders include the presidents of 39 evangelical colleges, aid groups and churches, such as the Salvation Army, and pastors of megachurches, including Rick Warren, author of the best seller "The Purpose-Driven Life," The New York Times reported Wednesday.
"For most of us, until recently this has not been treated as a pressing issue or major priority," the Christian leaders said in a statement to be officially released Wednesday. "Indeed, many of us have required considerable convincing before becoming persuaded that climate change is a real problem and that it ought to matter to us as Christians. But now we have seen and heard enough."
The religious leaders are urging enactment of federal laws curtailing carbon dioxide emissions through "cost-effective, market-based mechanisms."
The leaders told the Times their statement represents the start of an "Evangelical Climate Initiative" that will include television and radio ads, informational campaigns in churches, and educational events at Christian colleges.
Evangelicals are not immune from dilusion.
Looks like the Salvation Army is off my list of charities now.
And if it turns out that global warming is a phenomena that occurs naturally due to a combination of solar activity, earthly trajectory through space, cyclic transactions between various components within the atmosphere, and all are substantially greater than any human-caused contribution...what then?
The earth has shown to increase and decrease in temperature for billions of years on a cyclic basis. (See Ice Age)
What these guys should do is STFU and stop generating all that hot air.
To bad they don't have the time to pump up some emotion on Darfur. Millions there "ARE" dead.
Sorry to hear that about the Salvation Army. I used to contribute as generously as I could. That's finished. No support to anyone who follows the global warming cult.
Yea, verily, let him who expels not hot air cast the first stone.
It 50 years when global cooling is all the rage, I wonder if they will be as committed to the cause of stopping the next ice age.
Maybe they should stick to something they are supposed to know.
They are going to stop giving sermons? ;)
"cost-effective, market-based mechanisms" means rewarding companies that emit less carbon monoxide. As opposed to "mechanisms" proposed by Leftists that put liens and higher taxes on non-compliant companies.
If companies want tax breaks to lessen their emissions, so be it.
Makes about as much sense as asking a movie "star" about an opinion about the war. Why would anyone consider these people "experts?"
www.iceagenow.com
Answer this then, why is the temprature on Mars rising ar the exact same rate as the average temprature on earth (over the last 50 years anyway).
Now, you can say that it is "good" to have hot climate, because it is summer all around. That I understand and agree completely!
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