Monday, October 28, 2013

The science of global warming


John Kerry

Posted: August 31, 2009 12:21 PM




We Can't Ignore the Security Threat from Climate Change


Scientists tell us we have a 10-year window -- if even that -- before catastrophic climate change becomes inevitable and irreversible. The threat is real, and time is not on our side.
Facts, as John Adams said, are stubborn things. 
The truth is that the threat we face is not an abstract concern for the future. It is already upon us and its effects are being felt worldwide, right now. Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013. Not in 2050, but four years from now.
The people of the tiny coastal village of Newtok, Alaska offer a harbinger of the challenges ahead. Citizens there recently voted to move their village nine miles inland because melting ice shelves made their old home too dangerous.
But don't take my word for it. Anyone who doubts the reality of climate change should go to Alaska and see the melting permafrost for themselves
This time we have to connect the dots before we face catastrophe.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-kerry/we-cant-ignore-the-securi_b_272815.html

2 comments:

  1. Yeah, but... science. In case you missed it: S-C-I-E-N-C-E! Hello! Climate change is a major threat. Science.

    Besides, 2009 was like two centuries ago by hip standards. Instagram hadn't even been created yet. You can't hold anyone responsible for what they said that long ago.

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  2. The problem is the state-sanctioned "religion" behind this that blithely dismisses evidence contrary to its conclusions, and catalyst this is for increasingly state control with its dangers. As is the ACA. The same powers used for punishing evil doers can be used against those who do good.

    While those who are not governed from within must be governed from without (and i am not saying this is the cause behind CC, if indeed there is much of a historical abnormality), who governs those who govern? In a democracy, the people do, but when they cast off the Light of God then they will vote for darkness.

    But while we are to seek to see God's will be done on earth as it is in Heaven, mainly by evangelism, here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come. (Hebrews 13:14) And the church needs to focus on Christ and thus being an alternative to a decaying society and works, rather than bring back Mayberry RFD, which i think has been too much the goal for many.

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