Different Viewpoints

Can Scientists Really Predict a Global Climate Catastrophe?

By Zach Krajacic at “The American Thinker”

Just as Al Gore did not invent the Internet, he did not invent global warming theory. Scientists invented it, and they continue to fuel the mass hysteria they created by making predictions about climate change and its dire consequences for our planet. But have any of their followers stopped to consider how scientists are able to predict a global catastrophe in the distant future without being able to make accurate short-term predictions?

For the last two years, scientists were predicting high hurricane activity in the United States. Yet, according to David Demming, writing in the Washington Times last year, “…neither the intensity nor the frequency of hurricanes has increased.” The article points out that “the 2007 season was the third-quietest since 1966,” and that “in 2006 not a single hurricane made landfall in the U.S.”

Seasonal predictions are also challenging for scientists, which might help explain why we have been consulting a groundhog for so long. I live in Buffalo, and when scientists try to forecast our summer or winter weather, they are rarely accurate. Although scientists have sophisticated maps and models and cutting-edge technology, my own predictions based on intuition and conjecture would probably be just as accurate – if not more so.

Even the next day’s weather forecasts are a formidable task for scientists. This past winter, on several occasions, they predicted one to two feet of snow in our area, and we barely got a white coating. Last summer, when my wife and I were trying to grow our new lawn, forecasters predicted rain every day for a week, but it hardly rained at all. Of course, weather predictions are not always wrong. Sometimes scientists are right on target with their predictions, but often they are not, and sometimes they are way off the mark. The point is that their weather predictions should be significantly more accurate before trying to predict the destiny of the planet 50, 100 or 1000 years from now. Otherwise, it would be analogous to a student struggling with arithmetic but mastering calculus. It just doesn’t happen.

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And a second article by David Huddleston gives sheds some interesting light on how we are being duped….

The ‘greatest scam in history’

If you have friends and family concerned about global warming, have them watch this small video from the founder of the Weather Channel. This guy has more experience and common sense than all the scientist in the IPCC put together. Here is the introduction to the video at The New American:

Interview of John Coleman by William F. Jasper

“Many believe that global warming is one of the most critical challenges that face our planet today. According to the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, many scientists and most environmentalists and their allies in the media and academia, uncontrolled rising temperatures will cause more frequent droughts, food shortages, melting polar ice caps and coastal flooding, and the extinction of polar bears and many other species. They claim that modern, industrialized society is causing global warming, and they predict climatic calamity including frequent category five and numerous other severe storms resulting in great suffering.

“After years of study, John Coleman is convinced that none of this is true. And thousands of scientists and other meteorologists hold this same dissenting view.

“Currently, John Coleman is a TV weatherman for KUSI News in San Diego. But Coleman is most famous for being founder of the Weather Channel. He has had a long career in predicting the weather, working for the first time as a TV weatherman during his freshman year in college in 1953. With this extensive background, we might take John Coleman seriously when he states bluntly that global warming ‘is the greatest scam in history.’”

Fifteen killed in Mexico drug battle near U.S. Border

Without secure borders, we will be seeing more of this.

By Lizbeth Diaz, Reuters

TIJUANA, Mexico — Fifteen Mexican drug gang members were killed near the U.S. border on Saturday, their bodies scattered along a road after one of the deadliest shootouts in Mexico’s three-year-long narco-war.

Rival factions of the local Arellano Felix drug cartel in Tijuana on the Mexico-California border battled each other with rifles and machine guns in the early hours of the morning, police said.

Fourteen bodies were lying in pools of blood on a road near assembly-for-export maquiladora plants on the city’s eastern limits. The corpses were surrounded by hundreds of bullet casings, and many of their faces were destroyed.

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observations from africa on the agent of change…by Heidianne

Heidianne at the “Big Girl Pants” blog has done a well researched and verified blog post that is a warning about Obama and his true motivation for wanting power in the USA. It is a long post, but worth the read. I am posting the letter from Kenya that started her research efforts.  Click the link at the end to read the full,  information packed post at Big Girl Pants.

HoosierArmyMom

Thanks for sending out an alert about Obama.

We are living and working in Kenya for almost twelve years now and know his family (tribe) well. They are the ones who were behind the recent Presidential election chaos here.

Thousands of people have been displaced by election violence (over 350,000) and I don’t know the last count of the dead.

Obama under “friends of Obama” gave almost a million dollars to the opposition campaign who just happened to be his cousin, Raila Odinga, who is a socialist trained in East Germany. He has been trying to bring Kenya down for years and the last president threw him in prison for trying to subvert this country!

December 27th elections brought cries from ODM (Odinga Camp) of rigged election. Obama and Raila speak daily. As we watch Obama rise in the US we are sure that whatever happens, he will use the same tactic, crying rigged election if he doesn’t win and possibly cause a race war in America.

What we would like you to know is what the American press has been keeping a dirty little secret. Obama IS a Muslim and he IS a racist and this is a fulfillment of the 911 threat that was just the beginning. Jihad is the only true Muslim way. We have been working with them for 20 years this July! He is not an American as we know it.

Please encourage your friends and associates not to be taken in by those that are promoting him. It is world wide jihad. All our friends in Europe are very disturbed by the Muslim infiltration into their countries. By the way. His true name is Barak Hussein Muhammad Obama. Won’t that sound sweet to our enemies as they swear him in on the Koran!

God Bless you.

Pray for us here in Kenya. We are still fighting for our nation to withstand the same kind of assault that every nation, including America, is fighting. Takeover from the outside to fit the new world order. As believers, this means we will be the first targets.

Here in Kenya, not one mosque was burned down, but hundreds of churches were burned down, some with people in them, burned alive.

Jesus Christ is our peace but the new world order of Globalism has infiltrated the church and confused believers into thinking that they can compromise and survive. It won’t be so. I will send you a newsletter we sent out in February documenting in a more cohesive manner what I’ve tried to say in a few paragraphs.

Celeste and Loren Davis

celeste and loren davis are, indeed, missionaries serving in the kenya area. you can read about their missions here. in an email, mr. loren indicated to me that this was a personal email sent to a friend of theirs in response to some information sent to them on obama; they had no idea the information had begun to be disseminated to the world wide web.

Click the link below and read the full story, then decide for yourself.

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You won’t see this story in the MSM.

        Read the entire story at Black Five.

4th ID Soldiers Make Incredible Find

Sergeant Zach Mott of the 3rd BCT of the 4th ID wrote this story (and took the photo after the Jump):

BAGHDAD – Spotting irregularities is a tactic that is drilled into the minds of Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers throughout training and in practice while in Iraq.

Soldiers recently watched as a car pulled up to an entry control point at Forward Operating Base Callahan in northern Baghdad. They continued to watch as a woman stepped out of the car holding a bag. Once the woman dropped the bag near the gate, internal alarms were ringing and a careful search was called for and conducted…

…That search yielded a newborn baby wrapped tightly in several cloths. Soldiers raced to the bag, retrieved the child and brought him to the aid station to be examined.

“We unwrapped it to make sure he was alive – and he wasn’t sick, he wasn’t dead, he wasn’t injured,” said Staff Sgt. Paul Briscoe, the aid station non-commissioned officer in charge at FOB Callahan. “He was a perfectly healthy baby. I’m guessing three to seven days old. He was in perfect health. There wasn’t a scratch on him.”

This unlikely sight brought images of the Las Vegas native’s two children to mind.  (Continue reading by clicking the Black Five link above,)

 One feeling I get from reading this story is pride.  Pride in how our troops seem to be prepared for whatever challenges come up.  If our troops had freaked out in fear and shot “the bag” to pieces, the MSM, much to their own shame, would have been all over the story, but that is not what happened.  Whatever the story is behind this baby, maybe a young woman who has carefully “hidden her sin” behind her burka and fears for her life, or a widow who can no longer deal with another child, it is obvious from this story… the Iraqis trust our military to help and do the right and kind thing.  It is an act of faith to take your own baby someplace like that.  One would have to know that the child would be cared for, plus your anonymity would be respected as well.  God bless this mother, these troops who cared for this child and are so quick to raise funds to help him and the childless Iraqi couple who are being blessed with this child.  Great story, definately don’t miss reading it on Black Five.    HoosierArmyMom

Patiently Trust His Timing – by Steve Troxel – GDW

Patiently Trust His Timing

God’s direction and timing is always perfect and always with a purpose – but it’s often with a purpose we may not initially see or understand. Even when we earnestly ask for direction through prayer and the study of His Word, God’s answers are usually not what we expect and are often perceived as slow in arriving. But His direction and timing still remains, always perfect and always with a purpose.

God called Abraham to follow Him when Abraham was already seventy-five years old. But God blessed Abraham with great abundance and soon promised he would have many descendants … “I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted” (Genesis 13:16).

Although this was a wonderful promise from God, it certainly didn’t seem possible. Not only was Abraham an old man, but his wife, Sarah, had never been able to have children and now was long past the normal child bearing years. Therefore, when Sarah failed to become pregnant – when God’s promise was apparently going to be unfulfilled – she formulated a plan to “help” God.

Genesis 16:2 … “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her.”

Since this was an accepted practice and seemed like a reasonable way to fulfill God’s promise, Abraham agreed. Not surprisingly, great tension soon developed between Sarah and her maidservant. This tension increased when Ishmael was born and even continues today with the unfortunate hostilities we see in the region of the Middle East. Abraham clearly heard the call and promise of God, but he became impatient with God’s timing and resorted to a worldly solution.

It was another thirteen years before God fulfilled His promise through the birth of Isaac. These were thirteen long years of waiting and wondering if God had forgotten … but God’s direction and timing is always perfect and always with a purpose. With Abraham one hundred years old and Sarah ninety, the birth of Isaac left no doubt that God was in complete control and guiding the events in Abraham’s life.

In a very real sense, we are foreigners in this place and time … “Aliens and strangers on earth” (Hebrews 11:13).

We will never understand how all the pieces fit together until we stand before the Creator of the Universe.

Until then, we must continue to love and worship Him with all our heart … continue to seek His face and ask His guidance for every step … continue to follow His direction and patiently trust His timing.

Without Compromise

King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon desired to unite his kingdom by instituting a centralized form of worship. He built a statue of gold about 90 feet tall and 9 feet wide and ordered that everyone must fall down and worship the statue whenever the royal music began to play.

A report was delivered to the King that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were refusing to worship the golden image. The King summoned these three young Jewish men and gave them one more chance to conform to his rules for worship.

Daniel 3:15 … “If you are ready to fall down and worship the image I made, very good. But if you do not worship it, you will be thrown immediately into a blazing furnace. Then what god will be able to rescue you from my hand?”

These three followers of Almighty God were faced with an ultimatum … “Compromise your beliefs, or die!” They could have found a way to rationalize this false worship. They could have found a variety of excuses for compromise. But rather than fall to the pressures of their surrounding environment, the three decided to live a life of unwavering faith and unashamed devotion to the One True God.

Daniel 3:17-18 … “If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it, and He will rescue us from your hand, O king. But even if He does not, we want you to know, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.”

Very few will ever face a “Compromise or die!” ultimatum. But almost everyone will be tempted to push aside convictions and bow to such “golden images” as financial gain, physical pleasure, recognition, or conflict avoidance. We are also constantly tempted to “bow down” with the “entertainment” we watch, listen to, or read. Standing firm requires a determined effort to remain solidly on God’s path.

Hearing God’s direction for our life can sometimes be difficult … but one truth remains … God NEVER asks us to compromise His standard in order to follow His path. We can therefore be assured that ANY compromise represents a deviation from His plan.

Let’s strengthen the convictions God has already placed on our heart. We need not be ashamed of, nor fear, what we know is true; and we need never doubt the perfection of His path.

Let’s live a life of consistent belief and trust such that what we believe is directly reflected in the way we live … take a stand and live a God-honoring life … without compromise.

The REALITY of the Anti-War Liberals

History does repeat itself and only the most radical thinkers refuse to believe it … so, let’s take a closer look under the microscope…

It’s no secret that Liberals hate Bush … perhaps the MOST unreasonable hatred any politician has EVER endured in history … but they have never let up.

It’s this hatred that drives the Anti-War Left and sends them beyond reason and common sense.

Anyone with even the smallest amount of common sense knows that when we left Vietnam TWO MILLION PEOPLE WHERE MURDERED … you can thank the peaceniks for that.

They also know that if we leave Iraq TWO MILLION PEOPLE WILL BE A DROP IN THE BUCKET … thirty year old history will repeat itself.

Yet they seem more than willing to watch millions die in order to play “gotcha’ politics” with President Bush … they want to be able to blame Bush for everything for the next 100 years and it doesn’t matter if millions die in order to make that happen.

If this is what they want I just want them to simply admit it … I want them to admit that they are okay with millions of people dying in order to be able to blame everything on Bush.

But NOOOOOOO … the radical left try to tell everyone a fairytale about how everything will be just fine if we leave because, “WE are the problem”.

I am so sick of the disingenuous crap coming from the hardcore Left-Wing-nuts!

If this reasoning holds any water at all, then, shouldn’t we also blame FDR for the holocaust?

How about Truman, shouldn’t he be blamed for the millions who died in the Soviet Gulags?

Hell, Truman’s already getting blamed for dropping two A-bombs, thus saving untold thousands of lives by bringing world war II to a swift end.

Let’s see … when they are through with Bush, who’s gonna be their next scapegoat?

Puppy Recovering from Sensless Act of Cruelty

Young Dog Thrown Off I-15 Overpass, Receives Broken Jaw And Other Injuries – KUTV, Salt Lake City, UT news story.

SALT LAKE CITY – The Humane Society of Utah is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of whoever threw a dog off an overpass in Murray — breaking the animal’s jaw and inflicting internal injuries.

Officials say a red pickup truck parked on an overpass along Interstate 15 and tossed a one-year-old Boxer named “Seven” into traffic.  A driver stopped, picked up the injured dog and took him to a veterinarian.

The vet contacted the dog’s owner, who now faces up to $1,500 in medical bills. The dog has a broken jaw and other injuries from the 24-foot fall.

The Humane Society is outraged that someone would throw a dog off a bridge. Executive Director Gene Baierschmidt called it “an act of stupid, senseless violence.”

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What kind of monster could harm this darling pup?  Just looking at her face, I see the love and trust in those eyes.  Everyday we read about people throwing children and pets like this one off bridges and all manner of cruelty being exhibited toward innocents, and I am always left wondering… how could anybody be filled with the kind of hatred and angst, to do such a thing.  Whoever saw fit to do this, well, I hope he/she is caught and maybe his/her punishment should fit the crime… drop him/her off an interstate overpass and see how he/she responds???   What a sociopathic, lowlife, scum sucking, wretch!