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Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board
BendingSpoons writes "A Seattle school board has placed a moratorium on screenings of 'An Inconvenient Truth', having found its subject matter too controversial. Echoing the language of the evolution debate, the school board found that students must be told that global warming is only a theory and presented with an opposing viewpoint. The ban was prompted by the complaints of a parent: '"Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He's not a schoolteacher," said Frosty Hardison, a parent of seven who also said that he believes the Earth is 14,000 years old. "The information that's being presented is a very cockeyed view of what the truth is ... The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn't in the DVD."'"
I haven't read or seen An Inconvenient Truth, so I won't comment on it specifically. But Global warming is far from fact. It is fact in the same way that the war on drugs and the war on terrorism are fact. They are a creation by some entity to gain power and take money. There are a lot of specious claims about what the truth is, but no one knows for sure. The scientific evidence is cobbled together from disparate sources and mostly taken completely out of context, by someone who already has an opinion. This is the opposite of the way science is supposed to work. There are more than a few studies that endorse global warming. There are just as many (though not as well publicized or funded) that dispute it. Just for giggles let's assume that the average temperature of the entire earth is actually rising. There is no proof, but let's pretend. There is no proof of the cause. It might be green house gases, but green house gases were much higher during the last ice age. It also might be changes in the Atlantic currents, but the Atlantic currents have moved around since there was an Atlantic to have currents. It might be the decrease in pirates since the 1800s, nobody knows. The earth has been heating up an cooling down since the beginning. As evidenced by the preface to every global warming report I have ever seen: This year is the warmest since (insert any random year here). If you would like to read a well researched and footnoted fiction (yes fiction) about the science behind global warming, try State of Fear by Michael Crichton. If might be a lot of tripe, I don't really know, but just like all of the global warming stuff, there is evidence to support his position.
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels.
Um...I don't think Al Gore's political film should be shown in schools, either. Regardless of what you think causes global warming or the "science" in Al Gore's film, the fact is that the film is mostly about him going around the country giving his presentations and criticizing the Bush administration. It's a political film.
Of course it shouldn't be shown. Surely there is some sort of objective documentary about global warming they can show instead?
"Sufferin' succotash."
I'm getting disgusted with these people whose minds are so narrow that they are oblivious to the world around them. I am a Christian myself and people making comments like the ones in the article only make all of us look ridiculous.
And that's exactly why this article is posted on Slashdot. Slashdot is a leftist web site. Hatred of Christians is one of the left's platform planks. This article was posted to feed that hatred. And so you see it here.
And that's undoubtedly also why the article appeared in the Seattle newspaper.
Get used to it.
While we may not be entirely responsible and there may very well be natural forces causing the Earth's weather to act in a drunken manner, that does not mean we can not change it!
Practically, we can't. Short of cataclysmic events like global nuclear war, humanity cannot affect the entire planet in any reliably predictable way - primarily because the timescales are simply too big but also because there are simply too many variables to account for.
Attempting to deliberately change climate on a global scale is the epitomy of "chasing the dials".
It took nearly four years to get to this point. Bill Clinton's inaction and ineptitude in the years leading up to 9/11 got 3000 people killed in less than two hours. The two are hardly comparable.
20 January 2017: the End of an Error.
This kind of 'Bible says' opinions would be a minority (and we would be living in a better world) if it was not the people who have them who always have many children...
And that's exactly to be attributed to Bible's self-preservation, which wisely states 'Thou shalt not use condoms'!