As for the Al Gore farm, the fact that they don’t purchase electricity from turbines doesn’t really undermine his point that much although I do believe from reading a while ago that the majortiy of Tennessee power does come from that always toxic hydro power from the TVA and some emission free nuclear power plants. (yes some of that comes from coal plants but there are very low emission coal plants although I don’t know if they are low emission in Tennessee).

As for a big house? I have a small house, under 900 square feet over one and a half stories that is probably a bigger energy sieve than many mansions built today. I don’t know the details of the Gore ranch but as Bush’s Crawford ranch shows, one can have a large place with little environmental impact.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4520665474899458831&q=%22The+Great+Global+Warming+Swindle%22

What bugs me most is the uninformed reaction of the man on the street. People in Ottawa have noticed that the winters are reducing in duration. So they suppose that anthropogenic global warming is the cause. Not having read the science, how do they know that a shortened winter cycle did not obtain, say, a million years ago in the same area? Their expecatation is that the climate system, in the absence of anthropogenic influence, would be in relative “equlibrium” in their neck of the woods.

I remember the comment of an environmentalist after the South Asian Tsunami. He pointed out that, had the Thai villagers in a certain area not cut down the trees that once lined the beach, the trees would have dampened the Tsunami wave. It was a bad idea to cut down the trees. Now it may be true that if the trees had still been standing, they would have mitigated the impact of the wave, but does it make sense to say that the earth grew the trees for that purpose? The earth is not a conscious agent, like you or I. It doesn’t place trees in a certain place to prevent human death.

This is the same kind of mistake a lot of other uninformed observers make – how do they know that we have disturbed an equilibrium if they don’t know what an equilibrium amounts to in the first place?

For the record, I don’t think Dobson and his gang of hit men are any more believable than Al Gore. That is one of the benefits of being a moderate!

You can watch it here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4520665474899458831&q=The+great+global+warming+swindle

The link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues.

The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature.

Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment.

Subject : In a fast society slow emotions become extinct.
Subject : A thinking mind cannot feel.
Subject : Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys the planet.

Emotion is what we experience during gaps in our thinking.

If there are no gaps there is no emotion.

Today people are thinking all the time and are mistaking thought (words/ language) for emotion.

When society switches-over from physical work (agriculture) to mental work (scientific/ industrial/ financial/ fast visuals/ fast words ) the speed of thinking keeps on accelerating and the gaps between thinking go on decreasing.

There comes a time when there are almost no gaps.

People become incapable of experiencing/ tolerating gaps.

Emotion ends.

Man becomes machine.

A society that speeds up mentally experiences every mental slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.

A ( travelling )society that speeds up physically experiences every physical slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.

A society that entertains itself daily experiences every non-entertaining moment as Depression / Anxiety.

Fast visuals/ words make slow emotions extinct.

Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys emotional circuits.

A fast (large) society cannot feel pain / remorse / empathy.

A fast (large) society will always be cruel to Animals/ Trees/ Air/ Water/ Land and to Itself.

To read the complete article please follow either of these links :

PlanetSave

TheHolisticWheel

sushil_yadav

An environmental site that I have been reading a lot lately is http://www.worldchanging.com/

have you seen it?

in some ways it’s a really hopeful site. there are sooo many ideas and so much brain power out there that i think there are solutions….if people are willing to go to the hard work of learning, doing and thinking about these things…

but I haven’t seen Al Gore’s movie yet. i will have to watch it.

btw, Happy Birthday!!!!

http://newsbusters.org/node/11330

I do think we should be good stewards of the earth that God has given us. For that reason, I am all for using alternative energy sources, recycling, etc.

However, this issue has developed into a political issue rather than a truth issue. Some on the far right could care less about the issue at all. They take that view point because of politics. Those on the far left think everything from cows farting to McDonald’s cups are the harbinger of doom. They are also not interested in truth, but rather are in it for the political factors.

The fact is that there is vast scientific data from both sides that is intentionally ignored by the opposition. But that is why you will find many people not that overworked about the issue. They simply don’t believe it is as bad as folks like Gore (and others) make out. Honestly, I tend to agree.

But it isn’t that they (or should I say we) have our heads in the sand. As I mentioned there is a large body of scientific data (more and more becoming visible and mainstream) that suggests Gore is off base a bit (along with the whole “world destruction is imminent” crowd). We simply choose to believe those particular scientists.

But as I started out, that doesn’t mean we are all draining our vehicular oil pans into the water supply or anything.

Dobson is funded by large numbers of small contributions, so media events are what’s used. Whenever Dobson needs another million dollars, he writes a letter to his 6 million, and the money flows. Eventually, even politico-religious topics like abortion and homosexuality wear out the audience and new “enemies” are sought. Sensationalism drives the Dobson economy.

You answered my question with your final comments on Al Gore.

I guess because I have lived in a place where the economy can be ravaged by drought, I have followed the debate for far longer than most and I haven’t relied on Al Gore to change my mind but the scientific evidence is overwhelming. Studies in peer reviewed journals show an overwhelming amount of support for global warming that is separated from politics. Sadly, the only country that doesn’t see it as a problem is the United States and China right now and they only produce 40% of the global problem.

I have to say that I disagree with you in a couple of ways on this issue. First, I am a Christian who believes that the global warming debate is pure political propaganda based on bad scientific evidence. Just because we are experiencing global warming doesn’t mean that it is the result of greenhouse gasses. Global warming is here with us, but I don’t believe it is a human-made phenomenon. I believe it is part of a natural cycle. I’ve noticed in the last month that more and more climatologists are coming out of the closet and agreeing with me. They are being severely persecuted for their beliefs. I have posted a couple of times over the last month or so on the subject at my blog at: http://gideonshorn.blogspot.com.

The second issue that I have to disagree with you on is that the religious right aren’t concerned with the environment. Maybe I’m not far enough to the right to be part of the environmental-bashing crowd, but alhough I don’t happen to believe that global warming is a result of human-made pollutants I still consider myself to be an environmental activist. God has charged each one of us to be the best stewards of the world he has trusted to us. That means the church should be on the front line of environmental activism. If we truely believe we are living in God’s Creation, then the Body of Christ should be doing everything possible to clean up the world.

I don’t like Al Gore’s agenda, not because it isn’t a worthy cause, or not because I am not a fanatical steward of my environment, but because I don’t feel Al Gore is believable.

Thanks for the post and I love your blog.

It gets dirtier than that though, they are actually sending letters telling Christians in positions of influence to stop drawing attention to this issue.

You can read the Washington Post article HERE