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Comment on Pope And Ian Alterman Respond Faithfully To Climate Change by Laura

Laura — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:46:06 +0000

I don’t think it really matters whether this round of climate change is caused by humans or not — we still have to deal with the consequences. Of course, even if humans didn’t start the fire, we probably shouldn’t be throwing more fuel on it….

Comment on Pope And Ian Alterman Respond Faithfully To Climate Change by Alison

Alison — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:59:48 +0000

Colleen: Good point, good distinction. I agree.

Richard: I’d love for AGW to be a false alarm. But all the scientific evidence is to the contrary. Please review the massive body of research done by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Their research is objective, spans many years and continents, and isscrupulously peer-reviewed.

Concerning Mr. Alterman, I don’t know why he is hard to find. I’d ask the New York Times about it, since they find him credible enough to publish.

Comment on Pope And Ian Alterman Respond Faithfully To Climate Change by Richard Boren

Richard Boren — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:09:28 +0000

By the way, I tried to find contact info for Mr. Alterman, who is supposed to be pastor of Spirit Fellowship Ministries. I can’t find him or that organization anywhere. His letters have often been published in the Times–you’d think that finding him would be easy. Does he exist?

Comment on Pope And Ian Alterman Respond Faithfully To Climate Change by Richard Boren

Richard Boren — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:36:03 +0000

The Earth may be warming and the climate may be changing as it has innumerable times in the past, but what Alterman and others conveniently ignore are the questions of whether humans have anything to do with it this time, whether their contribution is significant, whether the warming will be severe enough to be a net “bad” for the planet, whether it can be halted, and whether the cost of trying to halt it will be worth it.

We cannot forget that it is only computer models–full of estimates and so wrong so far–that point the finger at humans and predict dire consequences. In scientific terms, anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is an unconfirmed hypothesis. What worries me greatly is that so many of the “warmers” seem to want a global crisis so that they can implement their various social agendas. They seem to not want to hear any evidence to the contrary. If AGW turns out to be a false alarm they’ll be disappointed.

Comment on Pope And Ian Alterman Respond Faithfully To Climate Change by Colleen

Colleen — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:52:25 +0000

I read the letter, and I really like the phrase “creation care.” That means we take care of all of it — people, animals, plants, air, everything. We should not squander God’s greatest gift to us … life on this amazing planet! Certain human actions are simply an obvious squandering of what we’ve been given. When we honor life — a tenet of Christianity and other religions’ — we honor God. The challenge, as I see it, is communicating this as a necessity (rather than a ‘good thing to do’) to the masses.

Comment on Needed: Dance Partner/Instructor by martha

martha — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:32:20 +0000

Hi Alison:

We met at Vicki’s yesterday. Re: dancing and singing next November, several ideas come to mind. I sing with an awesome new chorus, the Portland Peace Choir and our director, Marion Van Namen, is fantastic… and plays African drums, also teaches drumming and has dance/music parties at her home. Alisa Looney, an improvisational dancer I know, has choreographed some outdoor performances; she and I have both taken classes with Susan Banyas.

Comment on When Deniers Of Global Warming Are Hurting Us All by David Marsden-Ballard

David Marsden-Ballard — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:33:23 +0000

Well said Richard. I saw the same issues arise when researching The Greening of the Australian University system. Every champion of sustainability was being sabotaged for a stack of reasons, all the bad Byzantine political reasons as well as the the CLODDs on sustainability reasons. None of the champions were really in a position to make “on-the-record” statements.

In the meantime, universities are turning out 95% of their graduates as part of the “global problem” of consumption and destroying the planet….. while a small few come out as part of the solution with a knowledge of the problems, the solutions and how to move people between the two.

If Al Capone was taken down for tax evasion, these CLODDs who are committing crimes against humanity and the biosphere need to go one legitimate and ethical way or another, as they are through ignorance, arrogance, greed and ODD misleading the people and heading civilisation towards oblivion.

Comment on Heating Our House With Biodiesel, II by down alternative comforter

down alternative comforter — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:29:26 +0000

I loved that part about down comforters to save a lot of money during the cooler months. People don’t realize how much this adds up.

Comment on Cattails, Not Corn, Into Ethanol by Mark

Mark — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:15:31 +0000

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Comment on Checking In: On Joyful Sabbatical by Marci

Marci — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:37:56 +0000

Thanks for the update. Congrats on your new endeavor. It’s been a real joy and inspiration to read your work.