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Global Warming, Climate Change, Eco-disaster…whatever you call it, it’s a hoax. The Global Warming Alarmists have fooled the media, but they have not fooled me. I don’t believe Human Released CO2 is a major contributor to temperature change on this planet.  However, those with big egos are convinced that we evil humans, with our electricity, and horseless carriages, and domesticated cow farts, are irreversably changing our planet forever.  I don’t have a problem with this….I have MANY problems with this.

My argument against Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is filled with common sense issues that any non-scientist should be able to understand.  I understand that it’s too much for a politician to follow, but anyone else with a 5th grade education should get it.

1. The Climate has always “changed”. Never in recorded history has the climate remained constant.  30-40 years ago, some scientists were concerned about Global Cooling, the last few decades have seen that change to Global Warming…and now that it’s been cooling againg for 10 years, it’s Climate Change.  Fancy how they keep moving the target.  They’ve finally hit it on the head.  The climate will ALWAYS change, regardless if we act or not.  Again egos….how can one believe we can put a thermostat on our atmosphere when we can’t control the smallest of mother nature’s forces. Can anyone make a thunderstorm?  How about a rainstorm for droughts, or a dry spell for flooded regions.  Can anyone change direction of a tornado, or a hurricane?  Can you make it snow (And I don’t mean the resorts’ snow machines), or make it stop snowing?  Can you create Arctic Ice or stop a volcano?  Can you explain ALL facets of our environement which you so confidently think we can control?  The answer to ALL of these questions is NO! Why on earth is it possible to control temperature through CO2 control alone.  It’s a ridiculous argument.
2. I don’t believe our temperature data is complete with all of the abnormalities in collecting the data. There are 1221 USHCN climate stations in the USA.  Anthony Watts created the project http://www.surfacestations.org to compile data on each of the weather stations throughout the US.  What he huas found is startling.  A HUGE number of these temperature devices have been placed in locations that could never give an accurate picture.  In Forest Grove, OR, you can see their weather station less than 10 ft from a building (that stores heat in it’s bricks, and releases it at night), it’s next to a window air conditioner unit that blows hot air on it all sunmmer long, and nearby parking lots that also store heat in the day and release at night.  Even more amazing are the examples when we have documented construction near a station.  Anthony DIRECTLY coorelates a new parking lot with temperature increase for that station.  BUT it’s being BLAMED on CO2!  The records are unreliable, and shouldn’t be trusted.
3. CO2 is their only enemy. Wonderful carbon dioxide gets the blame for all of it.  Without it, all animal and plant life would cease.  With it, we all flourish.  History shows CO2 levels lagging behind temperature rises (by about 800 YEARS!).  But now we’re told it’s the CO2 that drive the temperature.  That’s bass ackwards.  There must be something else at work.  I believe the Marxist, anti capitalist, environmental (anti-human) movement has found their golden goose egg.  By controlling all forms of CO2, they can control ALL industry, driving, even exhaling….and hasn’t that been their goal from the beginning?
4. Ice levels are at the same level as 30 years ago. Go back one year when the alarmists were saying the Arctic would be ice free in the summer of 2008.  Well, that didn’t happen (their scenarios never do), and instead the sea ice levels ROSE to 1979 levels when we started recording them!  Remember that the year of 2008 saw the Polar Bear put on the endangered species list due to the diminishing sea ice.  It’s back, so can we take them off the list?  OR, maybe we should put seals on the list since the bears can get to them easier now.  So, how did the alarmists get it wrong?  For one, they thought “new ice” would melt faster than old ice.  BUT, they neglected to consider the effect of snow cover on the ice.  Since the temperature dropped quickly at the end of 2008, the new ice formed much MORE new ice since it wasn’t insulated with snow.  Ice grew at the fastest rate EVER recorded. I guess NBC missed the scoop on that one.
   
5. Speaking of NBC…the media is clueless. Their main goal is to get/keep viewers.  They’ve found the formula for success is to scare the pants off of everyone.  That makes people pay attention and watch the news.  To promote the iceless summer, and the impact of global warming, NBC News highlighted the penguins at the North Pole.  There’s only one ENORMOUS problem with this.  All 17 species of penguins live at the South Pole.  OOPS.  This could be brushed off as a simple error by an over zealous editor, or it represents the TOTAL lack of knowledge and responsiblity held by the media as it relates to our climate.  I believe the latter.
6. There’s not enough man-made CO2 to make a difference! Carbon dioxide emissions worldwide each year total 3.2 billion tons. That equals about 0.0168 percent of the atmosphere’s CO2 concentration of about 19 trillion tons. This results in a 0.00064 percent increase in the absorption of the sun’s radiation. This is an insignificantly small number. The yearly increase is many orders of magnitude smaller than the standard deviation errors for CO2 concentration measurement.  97% of CO2 is from natural sources. Only 3% is produced from human activity. When you take into account that all CO2 makes up only .033% of the TOTAL atmosphere, you realize that our addition is minuscule at best.
7. Computer models are not accurate. Not a single dire prediction made by James Hansen 20 years ago has come true.  The computer models have predicted it all wrong.  Remember the Hockey Stick that started it all?  It has been THOROUGHLY debunked.  We can’t predict weather more than a few days in advance, but the alarmists have some magical computer that can see 100 years into the future.  BS.
   
8. Who decides where to set the thermostat? While some in Siberia might welcome some warming, those in the Middle East might prefer some cooling.  Who gets to decide the perfect global temperature?  Al Gore?  The UN?  The Marxists?  Greenpeace?  Silly rabbit, Mother Nature does.
   

Richard Cochrane writes:

“German politicians are so upset over crowded Christmas Eve church services that they are threatening to limit attendance to church tax payers only.  Germany’s Catholic and Protestant churches get over 70% of their funding from revenues collected by the tax office from community members.  Germans who officially leave their church are exempt from the church tax.

“Worried that regular churchgoers could not find a seat or get a ‘good’ seat due to the popularity of the traditional Christmas service, Thomas Volk, a top member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives in Baden-Württemberg, said the church should be selective.  Martin Lindner, a member of the liberal Free Democrats (FDP) in Berlin, also expressed alarm at the lack of places in church and told Bild that parish members should get tickets entitling them to the best seats.

“The Weimar Constitution of 1919 and Grundgesetz (Constiution) of 1949 are the legal basis for this practice.  In Germany, on the basis of tax regulations passed by the communities and within the limits set by state laws, communities may either:

‘require the taxation authorities of the state to collect the fees from the members on the basis of income    tax assessment (then, the authorities withhold a collection fee), or choose to collect the church tax themselves.’

“The church tax is only paid by members of the respective church.  People who are not members of a church tax-collecting denomination do not have to pay it.  Members of a religious community under public law may formally declare their wish to leave the community to state (not religious) authorities.  With such a declaration, the obligation to pay church taxes ends. Some communities refuse to administer marriages and burials of (former) members who have declared to leave it.

“The money flow of state and churches is distinct at all levels of the procedures. The church tax is not meant to be a way for the state to directly support churches, but since expenses for church tax are fully deductible in fact such support occurs on a somewhat large scale. That has atheists’ and non-members’ underwear in a bunch.

“The church tax is historically rooted in the pre-Christian Germanic custom according to which  the chief of the tribe was directly responsible for the maintenance of priests and religious cults. During the Christianization of Western Europe, this custom was adopted by the Christian churches (Arian and Catholic) in the concept of ‘Eigenkirchen’ (churches owned by the landlord), which stood in strong contrast to the central church organization of the Roman Catholic church. Despite the resulting medieval conflict between emperor and pope, the concept of church maintenance by the ruler remained the accepted custom in most Western European countries. In Reformation times, the local princes in Germany became officially heads of the church in Protestant areas and were legally responsible for the maintenance of churches.

“Not until the 19th century were the finances of churches and state regulated to a point where the churches became financially independent.  At this point the church tax was introduced to replace the state benefits the churches had obtained previously.

“Taxpayers, whether Roman Catholic, Protestant or members of other tax-collecting communities, pay between 8% (in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg) and 9% (in the rest of the country) of their income tax to the church or other community to which they live.  The tax payments are fully deductible.

“It was, to some extent, such federal support of religion through taxes that entrenched early American federalists who objected to both income tax and state supported religion.  It infuriated early separatists, many of whom joined pilgrims going to the New World.  Such freedom from religion morphed into the current debate, mostly by the ignorant—meaning uninformed—about freedom of religion.  Which is vastly different from current manufactured conflicts over trivial displays promulgated by atheists, agnostics and secularists determined to interfere in others’ faith and practices.”

How about the hypocrisy of unbelievers who block faithful church members from attendance, or at least decent seats, at Christmas services?  Apparently the atheists and other unbelievers like the feelgood pageantry, even though they consider it to be based on a delusion.  Someone has remarked, however, that if all the great deeds, art and architecture and the rest of Christianity are based on a delusion, it is still the grandest delusion imaginable.

Of course, the hypocrisy doesn’t stop there.  One poll found that 12% of those Americans claiming to have been born again don’t believe there is a God (!).  Now, THAT represents some sort of weird delusion!  I suppose it has to be classified with the Russians’ voting Josef Stalin as their third most admired head of state—right after one who suppressed the radical elements in Russian society.

What is happening, of course, is that we’re far advanced into the anti-Enlightenment, where feelings are all that matters.  But do we really want a society, an electorate and a government ruled by feelings instead of reason?

For my part, I’m still disgusted with a packed Christmas Eve service I attended in which many of those attending engaged in talking, laughing and horseplay even during communion.

Pro-Hamas Anti-Israel Protest In USA and Elsewhere - Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes Reported.

The unguided Grad-model Katyusha rockets that were fired into Beersheba on Wednesday were manufactured in China and smuggled into Gaza after the Sinai border wall was blown up by Hamas in January, Israeli defense officials said.

The Chinese rockets have a range of 40 kilometers (about 25 miles). They are very similar to the 122 mm (almost 5 inches) Soviet-made Katyusha that was used extensively by Hizbullah during the Second Lebanon War and are slightly more sophisticated than an Iranian-made Grad-model Katyusha that is also in Hamas’ arsenal.

The four rockets that hit Beersheba this week had warheads filled with metal balls that can scatter up to 100 meters from the impact site, officials said. These rockets have also been fired into other cities.

The three countries that manufacture Grad-model Katyushas are China, Russia and Bulgaria.

Defense officials told The Jerusalem Post the rockets were smuggled into Gaza in the 12 days after Hamas blew a hole in the border wall between Gaza and Egypt on January 23.

“Huge quantities of weaponry were smuggled into Gaza then from above ground, including the Grad rockets,” an official said, adding that even after the border wall was sealed, Hamas continued to smuggle the long-range rockets into Gaza via tunnels under the Philadelphi Corridor.

In some instances, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) has learned of weapons that came from Yemen and Eritrea, were moved to Sudan, then north to Egypt, and finally smuggled into Gaza.

“This is a complicated smuggling system that involves many different people around the world,” one official said.

The Grad-model Katyushas, officials said, were packed with large quantities of ammonia and less-than-maximum explosives to increase their durability and lethality.

Last Thursday, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit told Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni that Cairo was not responsible for Hamas’ military buildup and that the long-range rockets in the group’s arsenal were not smuggled through the tunnels from Sinai.

Defense officials said Wednesday that Aboul Gheit was partially correct, in that some of the rockets did not come into Gaza through tunnels, but that they did enter the Strip from Sinai.which is Egyptian controlled.

Egypt is complaining that Hamas leaders are abandoning Palestinians to their own devices as they hide in shelters. Egypt is concerned about a flood of refugees from Gaza as food and even water become scarcer. Israel is sending convoys of relief supplies into Gaza, and a Red Crescent (Islamic Red Cross) ship is enroute to Gaza from Iran.

As the rockets continue to shower down into Israel its warplanes are pounding Hamas targets in Gaza.

Pro Hamas and anti-Israel demonstrations have occurred in scattered locales around the USA and elsewhere. Spotty anti-Semitic acts have also occurred. Hate signs were found at an Orange County synagogue and swastika at a Jewish Pre-school in Ventura County among others.

Land for peace abject failure

Hamas is firing salvos of longer range Russian and Chinese-made Iranian supplied rockets into Israel. Yesterday a 39-year old woman was among four killed by just such an unguided terror weapon in the current barrage. The rockets was one among hundreds that have been launched from Gaza which Israel gave up in 2005 and is now ruled by Hamas militants who reject the existence of the Jewish state.

Such attacks with longer and longer range weapons are deflating any hope of peace and has completely discredited the so-called “land for peace” initiative as an abject failure.

Israeli warplanes continue to pound Hamas targets inside Gaza as Israeli Defense forces muster on its border with Gaza.

Israel rejected a French sponsored ceasefire saying it would simple be used for Hamas to rearm and fortify. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, in defending the Gaza offensive in a speech to parliament Monday, said Israel remains committed to the idea of a Palestinian state alongside it.

But the missile that hit Ashdod, Israel’s largest southern city with 207,000 residents 23 miles north of Gaza, drove home a grim new reality. Israeli hard-liners maintain that every withdrawal brings Israel’s enemies closer: They say the Oslo accords negotiated in the Norwegian capital in the 1990s turned parts of the West Bank into breeding grounds for suicide bombers; the 2000 pullback from south Lebanon brought Hezbollah closer to Israel.

New Years Eve Associated Press reports from Jerusalem say Israeli intelligence believes the Lebanese militia now has rockets that can reach 125 miles, far beyond Tel Aviv - meaning the vast majority of Israelis are in range.

“The historical lesson of Oslo, of Lebanon and of Gaza proves that with every concession, every territory we leave is used for attacks against us,” said Yaakov Amidror, a former general now with the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

The Jerusalem Post reports IAF continued its assault on Gaza terrorist targets on Wednesday afternoon, bombing a Gaza City mosque and destroying a large number of rockets hidden inside.

Israel Channel 10 reported that the IAF had received high-level orders to hit the mosque after Hamas terror operatives had run there with several rockets and Grad-type missiles.

On Wednesday morning, the IAF struck targets in the northern Gaza Strip. Most of the attacks were reportedly directed against rocket launchers that were being used.

The Post also reports in what seems to be a related story two Israeli men were wounded when they were shot by a group of “middleeastern-looking men” in a mall in Odense, Denmark on Wednesday afternoon.

Ground Assault Now Not “If” But When — Air Attacks Continue — Anti-Israel Demonstrations Errupt

AP is reporting that about 3,550 people registered by Monday with the Combatant Clergy Society’s (CCS) web site to fight against Israel. CCS is a group of influential radical Iranian clerics. The group, which has considerable political and economic power in Iran, did not provide further details on the program including how it would contact the volunteers or implement the program.

The conservative clerics decided to sign up volunteers after Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a religious decree on Sunday that said anyone killed while defending Palestinians in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip against Israeli attacks would be considered a martyr.

Khamenei’s religious decree was not considered a government decision and did not oblige the government to launch attacks against Israel.

But Iran considers Israel its archenemy, and its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for the destruction of the Jewish state. Iran also is Hamas’ main backer, though Tehran denies sending weapons to the Islamic militant group that took control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007.

Anti-Israel demonstrations are underway in Teheran and scattered incidents around Europe and elsewhere.

Israel’s air strikes on the Gaza Strip have sparked outrage in Iran and throughout the rest of the Muslim world. About 300 Palestinians have been killed and more than 1,000 wounded since the air assault began Saturday. Israel says it launched its campaign in retaliation for rocket fire aimed at civilians in southern Israel.

Also Monday, the Iranian Red Crescent sent a ship carrying 2,000 tons of food to Palestinians living in Gaza to be delivered via Egypt. An Iranian military plane also landed at Cairo International Airport carrying 24 tons of food and medicine destined for Gaza.

The head of Iran’s Red Crescent, Masoud Khatami, said three more ships were waiting to be loaded with humanitarian aid, and Iranian hospitals were ready to receive injured Gazans, according to the official Iran news agency, IRNA

CCS’s website gives volunteers three options on ways they can fight Israel: military, financial and propaganda.

At midday (U. S. time) Fox News reported from Israel that a ground invasion of Gaza is no longer a matter of if but when. Israel has called up several thousands of reservists, and they are mustering now as tanks continue to mass on Israel’s border with Gaza.

…the pinch of salt

A notoriously unreliable man told me Sunday that Israeli civilians had been firing rockets into Gaza trying to provoke a counter attack as an excuse for the current air strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza. His source, he said was “news clips” but he lacked any evidence. His analysis included a prediction of increased attacks on American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

His ideas are even more extreme than the news being reported by foreign media (CNN, Fox, Sky etc) that omits much of what is really happening.  

 
Israeli news has reported the following which you probably won’t be privy including::  

·        After several months of planning, and careful intelligense gathering Israel had 40 initial targets of Hamas.  Among those was a ceremony for the first “graduating  class” from a sophisticated Hamas terrorist training school. About 100 terrorist were killed there.

·        Egypt tightened security at their border with Gaza to prevent the  Palestinians from flowing across to Egypt .  Egypt has agreed to  accept some of the injured into their hospitals.  

·        Israel allowed 40  truck loads of humanitarian aide into Gaza just a couple of days ago, even  though on Wednesday 80 rockets were sent into Israel from Gaza  .  

·        All Israeli Embassies around the world are on high alert, as  is several areas in Israel including the North were we  live.

·        Thursday night 8 loaded  and timer-set rocket launchers were discovered 5km from Israel’s Northern  border with Lebanon.  These rockets were intended to hit Nahariya and  Maalot.  These were disarmed.  Lebananese sappers  found another 13.  

·        Israeli intelligence reports  that somewhere between 800-1,000 tunnels are being used to smuggle arms  and terrorists into Gaza . Israel had continued to  restrain from attacking thjose for many years while continually living  under attacks from Gaza .

·        Regardless of what you may  hear, Israel sent humanitarian trucks and money into Gaza during these  difficult years.  We have tried talks and truces which were never  fully honored by the  Palestinians.

 It is being reported on  foreign media that many of the dead were school children on their way home  from school. at 11 AM? Exactly why they were attending school on Saturday and had been dismissed at 11AM has not been explained.

I am grateful to Dr. Joel Strom for forwarding this first hand report to me.

Air Attacks Obliterate All Hamas Police Stations - “now is the time to fight”

A Jerusalem Post report Saturday says “There is a time for cease-fires and a time to fight, and now is the time to fight,” Defense Minister Ehud Barak said . “For months the IDF and security forces have been preparing for the operation that began today.”

Saturday’s Jerusalem Post also reports that at least 60 Israeli warplanes had smashed into some 100 targets in the Hamas dominated Gaza strip. The Post reports at least 200 have been killed and 310 wounded in fighting thus far. Among the dead was Hamas police chief Maj.-Gen. Tawfik Jaber. Hamas’s Interior Ministry said that all security compounds in Gaza were destroyed.

At this writing it is believed IDF ground forces have not cross into Gaza. President Shimon Peres told the London-based newspaper Asharq al-Awsat in a report published on Saturday said IDF will not invade Gaza.

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