...the burning of gasoline produces carbon dioxide....
Indeed it does, but where was all this carbon dioxide, before it became fossil fuel? Was not the carbon from every bit of fossil fuel and coal that has already been burned and that is still underground in the atmosphere once upon a time? The earth was a lot warmer then, but that seems to be good, because living things not only survived, but thrived. Aside from the unproven theory that the ocean levels would be significantly higher, why would a warmer Earth be bad?
Why don't you stick to science, rather than bringing religion or politics into the discussion? The pilfered e-mails show that these supposedly neutral scientists have a political agenda. That is why they labeled it a "travesty" that the data doesn't support their socialistic political agenda.
...I highly doubt that climatologists consist of some dark, left-wing communist sect of economy-destroying conspirators...
However, the pilfered e-mails show that these so-called scientists have an axe to grind. They labeled it a "travesty" that the data do not support their socialistic political agenda. They also tried to pervert the open peer review process by not allowing those who have contrary papers to publish them. That, to me is a most terrible thing for anybody who wants to call himself a scientist to do. Those guys should hand their degrees back and go drive a garbage truck.
....Rising sea levels, which you already acknowledge, would displace a whole lot people.....
It would certainly be rather traumatic if this happened suddenly, say over a decade or two. However, even if global warming were real, it is projected to happen over a century or more. Humans as well as other lifeforms are pretty adaptable. There are many areas for example, around New Orleans, that should never be built on. It is too bad that global warming is fake, because it would be nice to live on a uniformly warmer planet. There is plenty of land in northern Canada, Siberia and Greenland and other places that are now literally ice cold.
.... but I believe the concern is that we would spiral towards becoming like the planet Venus....
If that were true, it would have already happened. All the carbon we have already burned and all the carbon that is still in the ground in the form of fossil fuels was once in the atmosphere of the earth. The earth was uniformly warm from pole to pole and orders of magnitude more productive of living things, especially plants.
The Emperor of global warming is naked and the high priests of global warming know that. The hacked e-mails give strong evidence that they know that it is a "travesty" that their socialistic agenda is not supported by the data.
...*IF* you have serious data for this I'll believe it.....
Is oil in Alaska and coal in Antarctica good enough? These are fossil fuels produced by dead plants and animals. All fossil fuels represent carbon that was once were? Oh yeah, in the atmosphere were plants and sunshine could turn them into hydrocarbons which we now burn in our SUVs.
(...More hurricanes is the problem,...)
All weather on earth, including hurricanes, tornadoes and nasty blizzards, such as the Midwest is experiencing as I write this, are the result of temperature DIFFERENCES both vertically and horizontally in the atmosphere. If it were true that the earth is getting warmer overall, these differences would be reduced, because the atmosphere would hold more water and carry more heat that would be distributed more evenly. It is just too bad, that the wishful thinking of climate scientists is not happening. It would be rather nice to have a more uniformly warm earth. It would mean we would burn fewer fossil fuels to heat our houses. The vast iced over land areas of Siberia, northern Canada and Greenland would be habitable.
...increasing temperatures will help to reverse desertification?....
Because a warmer atmosphere will hold a LOT more water which then can precipitate out in places that get little or no rain today. Warmer, moist air also distributes temperature variations more efficiency because it holds more heat. This means that rather than more violent weather, the weather will calm down because there is less difference between the hot places and the cool places on earth. This applies vertically in the atmosphere as well, reducing the temperature differences that drive violent storms such as hurricanes and tornadoes.
When the fossil fuels were formed, the earth was uniformly tropical and life was much more prolific because of that.
(...farmland nearer the equator, and the equator covers far more land area...) Maybe that is true of farmland, but not land as a whole. The vast areas of northern Russia and China as well as northern Canada would once again be usable by humans. This tremendous increase in usable land area would far outstrip a possible small loss of land in coastal areas. There is also evidence that the areas now known as continental shelves were once free of water. A warmer atmosphere, say 10 C. warmer on the entire earth would hold a tremendous amount of water in suspension. Water vapor is lighter than either oxygen or nitrogen. This means that pure water vapor could accumulate above the oxygen nitrogen atmosphere. Water vapor is orders of magnitude more effective as a greenhouse gas than CO2.
All that presupposes that global warming is actually taking place. In the last 10 years at least, there has been no evidence of this. That is why, in one of the hacked e-mails, one of the so-called global warming scientists called it a "travesty" that the data doesn't support their foregone conclusions.
....LHC dipole magnets are created in such a way that they automatically accelerate particles....
In a particle accelerator, including the LHC, magnets don't accelerate anything. Magnets are used purely for focusing and guiding the beams. The acceleration of the beams takes place in RF cavities, which are fed energy generated by klystrons. Klystrons are high-power vacuum tubes especially designed to generate/amplify high-frequency radio waves. Klystrons are also commonly used in powerful radar systems.
...Global warming carries with it a huge risk of reducing food supplies....
That is completely and utterly false. Most plants, including most crops grow better when it's warmer and moister. If every last bit of ice on earth melted, it might raise the ocean level a few feet, but there would be vast areas of earth that would then be agriculturally productive, whereas now they are frozen wasteland or desert. Greenland would be once again a green land, covered with forests similar to what is on the east coast of North America today.
If such warming did happen, which the data in the last 10 years refutes, it would be generally good for humanity as a whole. This is especially true if the warming happened over a century or more, so that coastal areas and others could adapt.
It is nonsensical how almost everybody automatically assumes that global warming, even if it were happening, is universally bad. There are very few things on this earth that are either all good or all bad, but it is always a mixture of the two.
...It would be a fundamental transformation, like a caterpillar into a butterfly....
which could well be a physical demonstration of a spiritual truth as found in God's Word the Bible. There are many mysteries found in the Bible and the makeup of the man himself is a mystery. If we were living in a computer simulation, such as the Matrix, the question arises as to who made the computer and wrote the program therein. Since we are talking about computers, you do understand that the "soul" of a computer is its software. My Macintosh computer hardware can run several operating systems, the "personalities" of the computer if you will. Even the minutest and most careful examination of the hardware itself will tell you nothing about the soul of the computer, its software or soul. Neither the soul of man nor the software in the computer are subject to some of the laws of physics that matter must obey.
Similarly, a human being, according to the Bible, lives in a body of flesh and blood, the hardware, but the soul or spirit is the essence of a human being. The biblical definition of death is quite different from humanistic materialistic thought. Throughout the Bible, especially in the teaching of Jesus, death is spoken of as a separation. According to the Bible, there are two deaths or separations. The first death occurs when the soul or spirit is separated from the body. The second death happens when that spirit is separated from God, whom the Bible teaches is Spirit. Nobody will argue that all humans are subject to physical death.
The Bible in general and Jesus in particular gives us much insight. Jesus asked many searching questions of which one was:
Matthew 16:26 For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Jesus claimed to be God come as a man, Emmanuel, God with us. God, as it were, put on the human body, an earth suit, which is subject to death. He proved his claim to deity by rising from the dead. Other than Jesus, religious leaders and gurus have come and gone throughout the ages and they're all still very much dead. Because he is alive, he can give you or anybody else life. The only condition we have to meet is to simply believe and trust him.
...they are legally binded to protect your privacy...
Unless it is the government wants your information or someone who has the ability and money to use the government (lawsuits & courts) to get the information. You might as well face it, there is no privacy whatsoever in any shape or form on the Internet. Anybody who has the will and the money can get whatever they want if it's there. Even the data on your own hard drive is subject to the legal system's access.
....Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel....
You left out the one big bright spot in all of this dismal story. It is the promise of God that the seed of the woman will bring forth the Redeemer who will reverse the result of this sad episode, death, commonly referred to as the fall of man.
Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He will crush your head, and you shall bruise His heel.
In human biology, the seed is commonly referred to as that of the man, the sperm, not the female egg. There was one exception to this and that is in the birth of Jesus. He was born of a virgin and the seed of fallen man was not involved. He was thus eligible to be the Redeemer of all mankind, because he was not tainted by God's curse upon mankind. Jesus took the curse of death, but because he was the only person who was not tainted with sin and never sinned himself, the curse of God, namely death, could not contain him.
Even a cursory reading of the biblical resurrection accounts, shows that the body that Jesus had after his resurrection was very different from the kind of body we now have. It was a transcendent body not subject to the laws of physics as we know them.
Jesus says to all who are willing to believe Him:
John 6:57 As the living Father has sent Me, and I live through the Father, so he who partakes of Me, even he shall live by Me.
That is why Christians, throughout almost 20 centuries now have been celebrating communion, which is the partaking of Christ. All who do this by faith, are given the promise of a resurrection to eternal life.
The apostle Paul gives a little more detail of what is in store for every true Christian in 1Corinthians 15:12 to 15:26
For a true believer in Jesus Christ, there is in store, not another body buttressed by the technology of modern medicine, yet in the end subject to death, but a resurrected, transcendent, eternal, immortal body, with powers and abilities we cannot even imagine.
almost anything made artificially illegal can be used to frame somebody that is considered undesirable by the powers that be or even a nasty neighbor, relative or competitor for the affections of some man or woman. How easy is it for somebody to put something declared to be illegal, such as dope, into somebody's car or even into the pocket of an article of clothing hung on the coat rack in a restaurant? After that, simply "anonymously" call the cops and the victim is salted away in prison for many years.
I think an ACTION or failure to take an action ought to be the only reasons for which a person could become a felon. Our prisons would be about half empty, if only those people who actually did something wrong or failed to do something right, (such as pay taxes rightfully due) were put into prison.
It is interesting that the 10 Commandments, which long have been the basis of Western civilization's laws, contain no prohibition against the possession of something. You actually have to DO something bad to break God's law.
Apple's OS X includes a feature called secure erase. How much more secure is that, then the normal delete? Does Windows 7 have something similar? If so what do they call it.
....Musicians are NOT special people who deserve special rights....
Before recording devices and cameras were invented, all performing artists were paid like most of us are. Every time an actor or musician performed in front of an audience, they were paid for that performance. Sound and picture recording enables them to perform for a vastly larger audience. The audience is simply shifted in time and space. Does this now mean that the artist should no longer be paid when performing in front of a virtual audience instead of living people?
...Greenland was never named as such because it was "green." It was named in order to lure colonists.....
How do you then explain the ice cores from the bottom of up to 8000 feet of ice, which clearly show pollen and other plant matter just like we find on the East Coast of North America? You can look at this if you have not already:
In World War II with some airplanes were lost in Greenland. They were found some 40 years later under 250 feet of ice. That 250 feet of ice was in hundreds of layers giving the lie to the assumptions that ice layers are annual. Those layers are nothing more than the result of successive storms with perhaps a warm period in between. If you approximately extrapolate 250 feet of ice in about 40 years to the say the year 800, it comes out to a very deep ice pack.
.... these very evil people will have the resources of an entire planet to accomplish even more evil....
It is interesting that both Daniel of the Old Testament and the apostle John and Paul in the New Testament of the Bible, prophesy of a world government with an evil ruler called the antichrist. It also foretells that this evil ruler will institute an identifier placed physically on each person, without which nobody will be allowed to buy or sell. Is your Social Security number, debit card and credit card a precursor to such a system?
Jesus prophesied of a time so terrible, the likes of which has never been on earth before and never will be again. He adds that if this time were not cut short (by God's intervention), no human being would live through it.
Just think what a modern-day Hitler could do with computers, weapons of mass destruction and other modern-day technology that was not yet available to that madman.
It looks to me like the world is lurching toward the fulfillment of these prophecies.
....has pushed global warming as a way to scare people into world governance....
Both the prophet Daniel and the apostle John speak of a one world government. Its leader is referred to as the antichrist. You may be right about the global warming scare, but it will probably take something bigger than that, such as World War III, or at the very least a big war in the Middle East with a nuke or two lobbed by Iran and Israel at each other.
which was in the atmosphere before man started burning fossil fuels, before the fuels were formed a long time ago. We call them fossil fuels, because they come from living things. No fossils or fossil fuels are being made today, because the CO2 content of the atmosphere and its temperature are much lower today than they were. The more CO2 there is in the atmosphere, the more plants flourish. Even if global warming were true, which it doesn't appear to be, at least by the last 10 years or so data, it would not be the end of the world. It would be very different, but not necessarily bad.
....You mean the 800-1300 AD warming period seen in Europe...
That was also the time when Greenland was a green land and the Vikings explored the ice free northwest passage. Where is all the evidence that all that molten ice raise sea level around the world?
.....there's no cow that they have to feed antibiotics or sheep brains.....
I guess you have never eaten naturally grown grass fed beef. Cows are supposed to eat grass, because that is how their digestive system is made. If the digestive system of the cow remains acid, which it is supposed to, then the harmful bacteria can't grow, so you don't need antibiotics to prevent them from getting sick. When cows are fed grain or other things they were not intended to eat, their digestive system become alkaline, allowing bacteria harmful to them and humans to flourish.
The problem with raising cattle on grass, is that it requires lots of land and time until they can be slaughtered. To reduce the requirement of both of these limited resources, cattle are crammed together in feedlots where they are fed grain, mostly corn. The combination of crowded conditions and unnatural food promotes sickness which the feedlot operator keeps under control with antibiotics.
...By and large people want to buy stuff that is cheap, filling and tastes good regardless of health issues....
That is one of the major reasons why health care is so expensive these days. Highly processed, artificial foods that have the enzymes and other natural substances removed to increase shelf life, are a big reason why health costs are so high. Copious consumption of sugary soft drinks made with high fructose corn syrup makes people fat and sick. It basically boils down to this. What you save in the grocery store on cheap highly processed food, you then will more than make up for at the doctors office and in the pharmacy.
...below it is the seed that God, errm, Erik the Red himself planted 800 years ago....
It is patently obvious that you and many others are UNWILLING to admit the assumption of ANNUAL ice layers is wrong. You are also unwilling to do the simple arithmetic necessary to determine at least approximately how much ice might have accumulated since about the year 800.
When they do take ice cores from the bottom of Greenland ice, they find this:
You are no better than the so-called climate scientists, who manipulated data, falsified data or ignored data that does not fit into their foregone conclusions.
Your reference to creationism is nothing but a red herring. Just because they use the buried airplanes to support their arguments, does not change the fact that these airplanes were buried under hundreds of layers of ice, about 250 feet thick. The facts clearly show that these so-called "layers" have nothing to do with years, but alternate cycles of freezing, thawing and more snow in successive storms.
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...the burning of gasoline produces carbon dioxide....
Indeed it does, but where was all this carbon dioxide, before it became fossil fuel? Was not the carbon from every bit of fossil fuel and coal that has already been burned and that is still underground in the atmosphere once upon a time? The earth was a lot warmer then, but that seems to be good, because living things not only survived, but thrived. Aside from the unproven theory that the ocean levels would be significantly higher, why would a warmer Earth be bad?
Why don't you stick to science, rather than bringing religion or politics into the discussion? The pilfered e-mails show that these supposedly neutral scientists have a political agenda. That is why they labeled it a "travesty" that the data doesn't support their socialistic political agenda.
...I highly doubt that climatologists consist of some dark, left-wing communist sect of economy-destroying conspirators...
However, the pilfered e-mails show that these so-called scientists have an axe to grind. They labeled it a "travesty" that the data do not support their socialistic political agenda. They also tried to pervert the open peer review process by not allowing those who have contrary papers to publish them. That, to me is a most terrible thing for anybody who wants to call himself a scientist to do. Those guys should hand their degrees back and go drive a garbage truck.
... where I live it began snowing earlier than ever ....
And where I live, we have had the coldest early December in about 20 years. It must be caused by all this global warming.
...You can prove anything when you're allowed to select the peers reviewing....
Here is an article that would have likely been rejected by those who have control over the peer review process:
http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm
You will find other interesting stuff on this website, that many if not most on Slashdot would disagree with.
....Rising sea levels, which you already acknowledge, would displace a whole lot people.....
It would certainly be rather traumatic if this happened suddenly, say over a decade or two. However, even if global warming were real, it is projected to happen over a century or more. Humans as well as other lifeforms are pretty adaptable. There are many areas for example, around New Orleans, that should never be built on. It is too bad that global warming is fake, because it would be nice to live on a uniformly warmer planet. There is plenty of land in northern Canada, Siberia and Greenland and other places that are now literally ice cold.
.... but I believe the concern is that we would spiral towards becoming like the planet Venus....
If that were true, it would have already happened. All the carbon we have already burned and all the carbon that is still in the ground in the form of fossil fuels was once in the atmosphere of the earth. The earth was uniformly warm from pole to pole and orders of magnitude more productive of living things, especially plants.
The Emperor of global warming is naked and the high priests of global warming know that. The hacked e-mails give strong evidence that they know that it is a "travesty" that their socialistic agenda is not supported by the data.
...*IF* you have serious data for this I'll believe it.....
Is oil in Alaska and coal in Antarctica good enough? These are fossil fuels produced by dead plants and animals. All fossil fuels represent carbon that was once were? Oh yeah, in the atmosphere were plants and sunshine could turn them into hydrocarbons which we now burn in our SUVs.
(...More hurricanes is the problem,...)
All weather on earth, including hurricanes, tornadoes and nasty blizzards, such as the Midwest is experiencing as I write this, are the result of temperature DIFFERENCES both vertically and horizontally in the atmosphere. If it were true that the earth is getting warmer overall, these differences would be reduced, because the atmosphere would hold more water and carry more heat that would be distributed more evenly. It is just too bad, that the wishful thinking of climate scientists is not happening. It would be rather nice to have a more uniformly warm earth. It would mean we would burn fewer fossil fuels to heat our houses. The vast iced over land areas of Siberia, northern Canada and Greenland would be habitable.
...increasing temperatures will help to reverse desertification?....
Because a warmer atmosphere will hold a LOT more water which then can precipitate out in places that get little or no rain today. Warmer, moist air also distributes temperature variations more efficiency because it holds more heat. This means that rather than more violent weather, the weather will calm down because there is less difference between the hot places and the cool places on earth. This applies vertically in the atmosphere as well, reducing the temperature differences that drive violent storms such as hurricanes and tornadoes.
When the fossil fuels were formed, the earth was uniformly tropical and life was much more prolific because of that.
(...farmland nearer the equator, and the equator covers far more land area...)
Maybe that is true of farmland, but not land as a whole. The vast areas of northern Russia and China as well as northern Canada would once again be usable by humans. This tremendous increase in usable land area would far outstrip a possible small loss of land in coastal areas. There is also evidence that the areas now known as continental shelves were once free of water. A warmer atmosphere, say 10 C. warmer on the entire earth would hold a tremendous amount of water in suspension. Water vapor is lighter than either oxygen or nitrogen. This means that pure water vapor could accumulate above the oxygen nitrogen atmosphere. Water vapor is orders of magnitude more effective as a greenhouse gas than CO2.
All that presupposes that global warming is actually taking place. In the last 10 years at least, there has been no evidence of this. That is why, in one of the hacked e-mails, one of the so-called global warming scientists called it a "travesty" that the data doesn't support their foregone conclusions.
....LHC dipole magnets are created in such a way that they automatically accelerate particles....
In a particle accelerator, including the LHC, magnets don't accelerate anything. Magnets are used purely for focusing and guiding the beams. The acceleration of the beams takes place in RF cavities, which are fed energy generated by klystrons. Klystrons are high-power vacuum tubes especially designed to generate/amplify high-frequency radio waves. Klystrons are also commonly used in powerful radar systems.
...Global warming carries with it a huge risk of reducing food supplies....
That is completely and utterly false. Most plants, including most crops grow better when it's warmer and moister. If every last bit of ice on earth melted, it might raise the ocean level a few feet, but there would be vast areas of earth that would then be agriculturally productive, whereas now they are frozen wasteland or desert. Greenland would be once again a green land, covered with forests similar to what is on the east coast of North America today.
If such warming did happen, which the data in the last 10 years refutes, it would be generally good for humanity as a whole. This is especially true if the warming happened over a century or more, so that coastal areas and others could adapt.
It is nonsensical how almost everybody automatically assumes that global warming, even if it were happening, is universally bad. There are very few things on this earth that are either all good or all bad, but it is always a mixture of the two.
...It would be a fundamental transformation, like a caterpillar into a butterfly....
which could well be a physical demonstration of a spiritual truth as found in God's Word the Bible. There are many mysteries found in the Bible and the makeup of the man himself is a mystery. If we were living in a computer simulation, such as the Matrix, the question arises as to who made the computer and wrote the program therein. Since we are talking about computers, you do understand that the "soul" of a computer is its software. My Macintosh computer hardware can run several operating systems, the "personalities" of the computer if you will. Even the minutest and most careful examination of the hardware itself will tell you nothing about the soul of the computer, its software or soul. Neither the soul of man nor the software in the computer are subject to some of the laws of physics that matter must obey.
Similarly, a human being, according to the Bible, lives in a body of flesh and blood, the hardware, but the soul or spirit is the essence of a human being. The biblical definition of death is quite different from humanistic materialistic thought. Throughout the Bible, especially in the teaching of Jesus, death is spoken of as a separation. According to the Bible, there are two deaths or separations. The first death occurs when the soul or spirit is separated from the body. The second death happens when that spirit is separated from God, whom the Bible teaches is Spirit. Nobody will argue that all humans are subject to physical death.
The Bible in general and Jesus in particular gives us much insight. Jesus asked many searching questions of which one was:
Matthew 16:26 For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Jesus claimed to be God come as a man, Emmanuel, God with us. God, as it were, put on the human body, an earth suit, which is subject to death. He proved his claim to deity by rising from the dead. Other than Jesus, religious leaders and gurus have come and gone throughout the ages and they're all still very much dead. Because he is alive, he can give you or anybody else life. The only condition we have to meet is to simply believe and trust him.
...they are legally binded to protect your privacy...
Unless it is the government wants your information or someone who has the ability and money to use the government (lawsuits & courts) to get the information. You might as well face it, there is no privacy whatsoever in any shape or form on the Internet. Anybody who has the will and the money can get whatever they want if it's there. Even the data on your own hard drive is subject to the legal system's access.
....Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel. ...
You left out the one big bright spot in all of this dismal story. It is the promise of God that the seed of the woman will bring forth the Redeemer who will reverse the result of this sad episode, death, commonly referred to as the fall of man.
Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He will crush your head, and you shall bruise His heel.
In human biology, the seed is commonly referred to as that of the man, the sperm, not the female egg. There was one exception to this and that is in the birth of Jesus. He was born of a virgin and the seed of fallen man was not involved. He was thus eligible to be the Redeemer of all mankind, because he was not tainted by God's curse upon mankind. Jesus took the curse of death, but because he was the only person who was not tainted with sin and never sinned himself, the curse of God, namely death, could not contain him.
Even a cursory reading of the biblical resurrection accounts, shows that the body that Jesus had after his resurrection was very different from the kind of body we now have. It was a transcendent body not subject to the laws of physics as we know them.
Jesus says to all who are willing to believe Him:
John 6:57 As the living Father has sent Me, and I live through the Father, so he who partakes of Me, even he shall live by Me.
That is why Christians, throughout almost 20 centuries now have been celebrating communion, which is the partaking of Christ. All who do this by faith, are given the promise of a resurrection to eternal life.
The apostle Paul gives a little more detail of what is in store for every true Christian in 1Corinthians 15:12 to 15:26
For a true believer in Jesus Christ, there is in store, not another body buttressed by the technology of modern medicine, yet in the end subject to death, but a resurrected, transcendent, eternal, immortal body, with powers and abilities we cannot even imagine.
... I'd say that simple POSSESSION of...
almost anything made artificially illegal can be used to frame somebody that is considered undesirable by the powers that be or even a nasty neighbor, relative or competitor for the affections of some man or woman. How easy is it for somebody to put something declared to be illegal, such as dope, into somebody's car or even into the pocket of an article of clothing hung on the coat rack in a restaurant? After that, simply "anonymously" call the cops and the victim is salted away in prison for many years.
I think an ACTION or failure to take an action ought to be the only reasons for which a person could become a felon. Our prisons would be about half empty, if only those people who actually did something wrong or failed to do something right, (such as pay taxes rightfully due) were put into prison.
It is interesting that the 10 Commandments, which long have been the basis of Western civilization's laws, contain no prohibition against the possession of something. You actually have to DO something bad to break God's law.
...Do multiple wipes on your harddrive ....
Apple's OS X includes a feature called secure erase. How much more secure is that, then the normal delete? Does Windows 7 have something similar? If so what do they call it.
....Musicians are NOT special people who deserve special rights....
Before recording devices and cameras were invented, all performing artists were paid like most of us are. Every time an actor or musician performed in front of an audience, they were paid for that performance. Sound and picture recording enables them to perform for a vastly larger audience. The audience is simply shifted in time and space. Does this now mean that the artist should no longer be paid when performing in front of a virtual audience instead of living people?
...Greenland was never named as such because it was "green." It was named in order to lure colonists .....
How do you then explain the ice cores from the bottom of up to 8000 feet of ice, which clearly show pollen and other plant matter just like we find on the East Coast of North America? You can look at this if you have not already:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/317/5834/111?hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&FIRSTINDEX=0&maxtoshow=&HITS=10&fulltext=(Willerslev+AND+greenland)&searchid=1&resourcetype=HWCIT
In World War II with some airplanes were lost in Greenland. They were found some 40 years later under 250 feet of ice. That 250 feet of ice was in hundreds of layers giving the lie to the assumptions that ice layers are annual. Those layers are nothing more than the result of successive storms with perhaps a warm period in between. If you approximately extrapolate 250 feet of ice in about 40 years to the say the year 800, it comes out to a very deep ice pack.
.... these very evil people will have the resources of an entire planet to accomplish even more evil....
It is interesting that both Daniel of the Old Testament and the apostle John and Paul in the New Testament of the Bible, prophesy of a world government with an evil ruler called the antichrist. It also foretells that this evil ruler will institute an identifier placed physically on each person, without which nobody will be allowed to buy or sell. Is your Social Security number, debit card and credit card a precursor to such a system?
Jesus prophesied of a time so terrible, the likes of which has never been on earth before and never will be again. He adds that if this time were not cut short (by God's intervention), no human being would live through it.
Just think what a modern-day Hitler could do with computers, weapons of mass destruction and other modern-day technology that was not yet available to that madman.
It looks to me like the world is lurching toward the fulfillment of these prophecies.
....Our industrial processes are massive....
Compared to what? If you compare the entire human output in CO2 and other pollutants, it is miniscule compared to an event like Krakatoa.
....has pushed global warming as a way to scare people into world governance....
Both the prophet Daniel and the apostle John speak of a one world government. Its leader is referred to as the antichrist. You may be right about the global warming scare, but it will probably take something bigger than that, such as World War III, or at the very least a big war in the Middle East with a nuke or two lobbed by Iran and Israel at each other.
....of carbon into the atmosphere ...
which was in the atmosphere before man started burning fossil fuels, before the fuels were formed a long time ago. We call them fossil fuels, because they come from living things. No fossils or fossil fuels are being made today, because the CO2 content of the atmosphere and its temperature are much lower today than they were. The more CO2 there is in the atmosphere, the more plants flourish. Even if global warming were true, which it doesn't appear to be, at least by the last 10 years or so data, it would not be the end of the world. It would be very different, but not necessarily bad.
....You mean the 800-1300 AD warming period seen in Europe...
That was also the time when Greenland was a green land and the Vikings explored the ice free northwest passage. Where is all the evidence that all that molten ice raise sea level around the world?
.....there's no cow that they have to feed antibiotics or sheep brains.....
I guess you have never eaten naturally grown grass fed beef. Cows are supposed to eat grass, because that is how their digestive system is made. If the digestive system of the cow remains acid, which it is supposed to, then the harmful bacteria can't grow, so you don't need antibiotics to prevent them from getting sick. When cows are fed grain or other things they were not intended to eat, their digestive system become alkaline, allowing bacteria harmful to them and humans to flourish.
The problem with raising cattle on grass, is that it requires lots of land and time until they can be slaughtered. To reduce the requirement of both of these limited resources, cattle are crammed together in feedlots where they are fed grain, mostly corn. The combination of crowded conditions and unnatural food promotes sickness which the feedlot operator keeps under control with antibiotics.
...By and large people want to buy stuff that is cheap, filling and tastes good regardless of health issues....
That is one of the major reasons why health care is so expensive these days. Highly processed, artificial foods that have the enzymes and other natural substances removed to increase shelf life, are a big reason why health costs are so high. Copious consumption of sugary soft drinks made with high fructose corn syrup makes people fat and sick. It basically boils down to this. What you save in the grocery store on cheap highly processed food, you then will more than make up for at the doctors office and in the pharmacy.
...below it is the seed that God, errm, Erik the Red himself planted 800 years ago....
It is patently obvious that you and many others are UNWILLING to admit the assumption of ANNUAL ice layers is wrong. You are also unwilling to do the simple arithmetic necessary to determine at least approximately how much ice might have accumulated since about the year 800.
When they do take ice cores from the bottom of Greenland ice, they find this:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/317/5834/111?hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&FIRSTINDEX=0&maxtoshow=&HITS=10&fulltext=(Willerslev+AND+greenland)&searchid=1&resourcetype=HWCIT
You are no better than the so-called climate scientists, who manipulated data, falsified data or ignored data that does not fit into their foregone conclusions.
Your reference to creationism is nothing but a red herring. Just because they use the buried airplanes to support their arguments, does not change the fact that these airplanes were buried under hundreds of layers of ice, about 250 feet thick. The facts clearly show that these so-called "layers" have nothing to do with years, but alternate cycles of freezing, thawing and more snow in successive storms.