100-Plus Scientists: Obama ‘Simply Incorrect’ on Global Warming

Over 100 prominent scientists from more than a dozen countries — including a Nobel Prize winner — have signed a letter to President Barack Obama charging that his views on climate change are “simply incorrect.”

The letter — sponsored by the Cato Institute — cites a statement Obama made in November: “Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.”

Under the headline, “With all due respect, Mr. President, that is not true,” the scientists state:

“We, the undersigned scientists, maintain that the case for alarm regarding climate change is grossly overstated. Surface temperature changes over the past century have been episodic and modest and there has been no net global warming for over a decade now…

“The computer models forecasting rapid temperature change abjectly fail to explain recent climate behavior. Mr. President, your characterization of the scientific facts regarding climate change and the degree of certainty informing the scientific debate is simply incorrect.”

The 115 signatories include Ivar Giaever, Ph.D., who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1973 for his work with superconductors at General Electric; John Blaylock, formerly with the Los Alamos National Laboratory; Richard Lindzen, Ph.D., at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and William Gray, Ph.D., the respected hurricane expert at Colorado State University.

The signers include scientists at Princeton University, U.S. Naval Academy, University of Kansas, University of Oklahoma, University of Colorado, and University of Missouri.

Among the countries represented by the signers are Britain, Canada, Italy, Norway, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Argentina and South Africa.

A number of the scientists are current or former reviewers with the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with climate change crusader Al Gore — and have since reversed their views on man-made global warming.

Stranglehold or Embrace?

From this week's "Pastor's Page"...

"I know some people who are afraid to become students of God’s Word because they are afraid God might just reach out and touch their lives with the kind of change we might not want. That’s understandable to me. As a human race, we’re pretty comfortable with our habits and our way of life. As Christians, we know that Jesus always accepts everyone right where they are, but never leaves them there. He always transforms us, grows us up, and matures us.

That can be a bit scary. There’s always the worry that He might ask me to do something like Abraham: leave home on a faith adventure. Or He might do something like He did for Samuel: God made him a full time church worker. Augghhhh!

We hesitate to let the Lord have His way with us, until, like Abraham and Samuel and countless others, we realize that when God reaches out to us in His Word, it is not a grab to drag us captive, but an embrace of love to set us free!

I know we’ll hear from Abraham and Samuel one day that the greatest thing that ever happened to them was when the Lord spoke and they listened."

This is so true and something I think almost every Christian struggles with to one degree or another. You would think after all God has done for me that I would trust him more...but you would be wrong.

Priceless

My understanding is that this kid was an intern and he was inserted into the broadcast at the last second when the regular sports guy failed to show up. He is probably scarred for life now.

We Have a Crucial Role to Play

In this desperate hour we have a crucial role to play. Of all the Eternal Truths we don’t believe, this is the one we doubt most of all. Our days are not extraordinary. They are filled with the mundane, with hassles mostly. And we? We are . . . a dime a dozen. Nothing special really. Probably a disappointment to God. Certainly a disappointment to ourselves.

But as C. S. Lewis wrote, “The value of . . . myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familiarity.’” You are not what you think you are. There is a glory to your life that your Enemy fears, and he is hell-bent on destroying that glory before you act on it. This part of the answer will sound unbelievable at first; perhaps it will sound too good to be true; certainly, you will wonder if it is true for you. But once you begin to see with those eyes, once you have begun to know it is true from the bottom of your heart, it will change everything.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

Today's Laugh

By the time Thursday afternoon comes around my mind starts turning to mush...even after a 10% bear market rally over the past 3 days. So this is the video I have watched about 10 times today and laughed every...single...time.

Historic

But then again...isn't everything?

So, the first two months of the year were the worst start to the year for the market since 1933 and for small-caps since 1926. That is on top of the debacle that was last year. In case January and February weren't bad enough, the first week of March was the WORST week of the year. How many worsts are we going to get?

It's tough...no doubt about it. In fact, it doesn't really get any tougher than this. Usually when that is the case a big rally is right around the corner. You are supposed to buy when there is blood in the streets. Well, believe me...people are bleeding...and yet the rally is unable to materialize. At least so far.

The market is saying things are going to get worse than we think they will. Unemployment hit 8.1% this morning although the government stats understate the true numbers. Where are we going? 10%? 12%? 15%? At this rate, it's difficult to say that anything is impossible.

A co-worker told me the other day that he had heard that terrorists were involved in shorting the stocks of financial companies and helped accelerate this debacle. I have no idea if that is true or not. I know there was some evidence of overseas accounts shorting airline stocks ahead of 9/11, so who knows? If they did they are smarter than I gave them credit for. After all, knocking down a few buildings and killing a few thousand Americans only brought the country together and strengthened our collective resolve (at least for awhile). But take away our "stuff" and watch us turn on each other and tear each other apart...effectively doing their job for them.

I Understand

If you have a vice or an addiction that you rely on to get through your day...

...believe me.

I understand.