[Goanet]Indonesian Eartquake
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.
RE: [Goanet]Indonesian Eartquake
--- Tim de Mello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder how fellow Goans might explain the catastrophic Indonesian earthquake and its aftermath. Was it the act of a very angry God? Cornel God seems to be a rather ungrateful creature, at least to me. Here we are, indians, some of the most credulously religious folk, and he visits this on us. And the ungodly europeans and americans get milk and honey. Thank you God, for nothing. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [Goanet]Indonesian Eartquake
From: cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder how fellow Goans might explain the catastrophic Indonesian earthquake and its aftermath. Was it the act of a very angry God? Cornel === Hi Cornel: I hope not. Why would God be so angry with Sri Lankans and South Indians? How about this for a pseudo-scientific theory. Most of the North American continent has been gripped by severe winter weather. This unseasonal cold could perhaps (?) have caused the surface of the earth in this area to unseasonally shrink - faster than usual. Could this have caused the tectonic plate in this region to tend to curve concavely (like a bi-mettalic strip) thus easing the frictional force between plates in this area causing them to shift a little thus affecting the plates in other areas that constitute the ring of fire? Good to blame it all on to global warming . . . and even better if you factor the US as a non signatory to Kyoto? Whaddya think, Mario? Hey, I said it was pseudo-scientific . . . . so please no flames. Tim de Mello [EMAIL PROTECTED] CANADA
[Goanet]Indonesian Eartquake
cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote:- To: goanet@goanet.org Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 6:55 PM Subject: [Goanet]Indonesian Eartquake I wonder how fellow Goans might explain the catastrophic Indonesian earthquake and its aftermath. Was it the act of a very angry God? Cornel RESPONSE: Certainly, Insurance and Re-insurance companies would call it an act of God and depending on the fine print will not pay up! In their terminology it is called Force Majeure. So now you have it, from the horses mouth! Gabe.
[Goanet]Indonesian Eartquake
I wonder how fellow Goans might explain the catastrophic Indonesian earthquake and its aftermath. Was it the act of a very angry God? Cornel
