Cornel and Tim de Mello, Cornel, You asked whether it was an angry God that was responsible for the Indonesian earthquake.
I have been around long enough to quit asking such questions. Maybe HE was just issuing another one of HIS challenges to see how the world will handle it. Maybe it was just an earthquake at the wrong place at the wrong time. Tim de Mello, who operates on feni fumes and would like to believe that global warming is something unnatural, especially if he can blame it on the US, asks, "Good to blame it all on global warming . . and even better if you factor the US as a non signatory to Kyoto? Whaddya think, Mario?" Tim, put down the feni bottle, and read the following article that appeared in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on December 27, 2004. I would like you to focus on paragraphs 7 and 8 in the article. Maybe you will learn something. Global warming: The new religion Monday, December 27, 2004 History says the rise of reason and revulsion stopped religious witch-burning. Or maybe they just got all the witches. Likewise, the global warming hysterics of today may run out of steam when reason prevails. Or when they get all the capitalists. MIT professor Richard Lindzen, heretical scientist, has an insight into the global warming industry. "Do you believe in global warming? That is a religious question," he said at the National Press Club this month. But it keeps a lot of preachers of the faith employed and the folks stirred up. Continuing on the professor's theme: Either the Earth will warm catastrophically, or not. Belief has nothing to do with it. As historical facts, global warming and cooling have occurred. The Earth warmed in the Middle Ages, up to a peak around 1300 when it was perhaps 2 degrees warmer than now, whereupon the Little Ice Age ensued until about 1900. We'd like to have that explained in the context of "man-made global warming." So, during Christmastide when someone wakes from a dream that the North Pole is melted and Rudolph has to take off from a nuclear Santaship, he might consult the words of Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama, a former senior scientist for climate studies at NASA. " ... I wish all those global-warming extremists would simply confess their faith -- and stop giving science a bad name."
