IMHO- 5 Feb Global Warming & other stuff

Colts' coach more proud of Christ than 'blackness'
2/5/07
Super Bowl XLI had been hyped as a major social milestone in U.S. history, since for the time, the head coaches of both teams were black.

But when the game was over and the Indianapolis Colts had defeated the Chicago Bears 29-17, the winning coach said Jesus Christ was more important than any racial moment.

During the nationally televised post-game show on CBS, coach Tony Dungy was asked specifically about the "social significance."

Jim Nantz of CBS Sports: This is one of those moments, Tony, where there is also social significance in this victory, and to have your hands on the Vince Lombardi Trophy. Tell me what this means to you right now.

Tony Dungy: I'll tell you what. I'm proud to be representing African-American coaches, to be the first African-American to win this. It means an awful lot to our country. But again, more than anything, I've said it before, Lovie Smith and I, not only the first two African-Americans, but Christian coaches showing that you can win doing it the Lord's way. And we're more proud of that.

The Associated Press reported Dungy's comments about God in stories it moved on its wire service, but the Bloomberg News Service only published the portion regarding African-Americans, and edited out the mention of Christian coaches.

Colts' owner Jim Irsay credited God with the victory as he held the sparkling Vince Lombardi trophy in his hands.

"Now there's an awful lot of shining glory, even more than last time up here," Irsay said. "But we're giving it all to God again because that's what got us here ... sticking together and believing that we could, and I know God has looked after us on this journey and bonded us into such a tight family."

Dungy has had a close relationship with Bears' head coach Lovie Smith since 1996, when Dungy hired Smith to coach linebackers for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

"My relationship, first, is with Jesus Christ, and he is the center of my life," said Smith when asked about his faith earlier this week. "I try to live a Christian life. I would like for players to know my faith based on what they see on a day-to-day basis."

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54098

Tortilla Facts (and the problem with subsidies)
Wall Street Journal, 1/29/07

It's not the higher cost of corn per se that has Mr. Calderón denouncing "speculators" and "hoarders." Rather, it's what rising corn prices are doing to push up the cost of tortillas -- the most fundamental of Mexican staples.

...The sharp increase in Mexican corn prices, which fueled the tortilla price spike, followed big price increases for corn on international markets over the past year. The main cause, according to most commodity analysts, was the U.S. decision to subsidize ethanol made from corn. Growers who previously marketed their harvests to food and livestock companies suddenly have new demand from ethanol producers, who are also armed with a subsidy to make their bids more attractive. The increase in demand from government-subsidized ethanol producers pushed up prices.

http://users1.wsj.com/lmda/do/checkLogin?mg=wsj-users1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2Fthe_americas.html

Hillary Clinton Beginning to Sound Like Hugo Chavez
The New Media Journal
February 5, 2007
...2008 presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton blatantly threw down her gauntlet on Friday. In an apparent attempt to outdo Venezuela’s Marxist leader Hugo Chavez, Hillary announced that—if elected president of the United States—she will seize (in a true and pure communistic manner) all profits made by oil companies and redirect them into her [own] programs.

Clinton said: “I want to take those profits and put them into an alternative energy fund that will begin to fund alternative smart energy alternatives that will actually begin to move us toward the direction of independence.”

Although the mainstream media has summarily ignored and not reported on it until recently, President Bush has been proposing alternative energy sources’ legislation since his first administration. However, the president’s program does not include the theft of oil companies’ profits from their stockholders.

...Recently, Emperor-to-be Chavez announced that he is confiscating the Venezuelan media, telecommunications companies, oil companies, banks etc. and placing them under his personal control...

...more at http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/zieve/02052007.htm
Did anyone ever explain to her just who "big oil" really is? It's hundreds of thousands of shareholders like me. It's teachers, lawyers, doctors, steel workers, truck drivers, professional military, dock workers, policemen, firemen, and many others. It's not just some nameless entity with a fat purse.

Whether you like Exxon's "profits" or not, what do you think would happen to their business (or any business) if the government starts seizing profits? There would be no point in being in business. "Welcome to the Soviet Union style government and shortages (except for Polit bureau members)"

Hillary: 'We're Going to Take Things Away From You'
June 30, 2004 (note date)
Hillary Clinton knows better than you do how to spend your paycheck. Really she does. Just ask her.

"Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you," she said at a fund-raiser for radical Sen. Barbara Boxer.

"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good," the former first lady admitted.

Hillary, naturally, knows what "the common good" is.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/6/30/91013.shtml

Did any of you catch the tear-jerker photo last week of the poor polar bears stranded on an iceberg? It's a faked article on Global Warming. If there were Global Warming there would be no need for such tricks…

Here’s the original article:

Global warming sees polar bears stranded on melting ice
Daily Mail (UK) Feb 1, 2007

They cling precariously to the top of what is left of the ice floe, their fragile grip the perfect symbol of the tragedy of global warming.

Captured on film by Canadian environmentalists, the pair of polar bears look stranded on chunks of broken ice. (photo at http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/02_1/polarbrsDM010207_468x762.jpg)

Although the magnificent creatures are well adapted to the water, and can swim scores of miles to solid land, the distance is getting ever greater as the Arctic ice diminishes.

The plight of the bears was highlighted as the prospect of a gloomy future emerged from leaks of the most comprehensive report into global warming yet undertaken, which is to be published on Friday.

Concluding that it is "highly likely" that mankind is to blame for climate change, it talks of more droughts, torrential rains, shrinking Arctic ice and glaciers, and rising sea levels for the next century...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=433170&in_page_id=1770

The truth about the photo is it is:

…the same picture was first published in 2004 with a credit to another person on the trip and the caption made it clear what was really going on:

Mother polar bear and cub on interesting ice sculpture carved by waves. photo © Amanda Byrd.
read the article at http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2007/02/the_polar_bear_.html

Claims about the imminent demise of the polar bear are overblown.

A leading Canadian polar bear biologist wrote recently:

Dr Mitchell Taylor, Dept. of the Environment, Government of Nunavut, in The Toronto Star, May 1, 2006.

“Climate change is having an effect on the west Hudson population of polar bears, but really, there is no need to panic. Of the 13 populations of polar bears in Canada, 11 are stable or increasing in number. They are not going extinct, or even appear to be affected at present.”

NO: It's a fact that their numbers [Polar Bears] are up fivefold since the 1970s
The Charlotte Observer Mon, Jan. 22, 2007

...In lieu of evidence, environmentalists offered mostly anecdotes that polar bears are at risk: isolated reports of a few polar bears drowning in Arctic waters normally containing sea ice as well as a few instances of cannibalism among polar bears.

Then they took a long leap of logic to posit that human-caused global warming will melt most of the ice at the North Pole within 50 years, and that without the ice, polar bears will be unable to hunt seals, their preferred prey.

Fortunately, both for policy and the polar bears, the plight of this one population does not reflect the population trend as a whole. Indeed, since the 1970s, while the world was warming, polar bear numbers increased dramatically from around 5,000 to as many as 25,000 today.

Historically, polar bears have thrived in temperatures even warmer than at present -- during the medieval warm period 1,000 years ago and during the Holocene Climate Optimum between 5,000 and 9,000 years ago.

Polar bears have thrived during warmer climates because they are omnivores just like their cousins the brown and black bears. Though polar bears currently eat seals more than anything else, they also will feast on fish, kelp, caribou, ducks, sea birds, the occasional beluga whale, musk ox and scavenged whale and walrus carcasses.

Mitchell Taylor, a biologist with Nunavut Territorial government in Canada, pointed out in testimony to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that modest warming may be beneficial to bears since it creates better habitat for seals.

Alaska's polar bear population is stable, and Taylor's research shows that the Canadian polar bear population has increased 25 percent from 12,000 to 15,000 during the past decade.

Where polar bear weight and numbers are declining, Taylor thinks too many bears competing for food, rather than Arctic warming, is the cause.

That's right, the problem confronting polar bears may be overpopulation, not extinction! The World Wildlife Fund, while arguing that polar bears are at risk from global warming, presented data that actually undermine their fear.

According to the WWF there are 22,000 polar bears in about 20 distinct populations worldwide. Only two populations -- accounting for 16.4 percent of the total number of bears -- are decreasing, and they are in areas where air temperatures have actually fallen.

Many Americans may view this polar bear gambit as just another backdoor attempt by dedicated greens to restrict energy use in the United States. They might well be right.

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/opinion/16516171.htm

Hurricane expert says global warming claims overblown

February 2, 2007

A man who has been called "the world's foremost hurricane expert" is dismissing a new United Nations report on global warming that implies that fossil fuel emissions are to blame for the purported phenomenon.

A veteran meteorologist says a new United Nations report on global warming is "grossly exaggerated." The report from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims global warming is "very likely" caused by human-induced fossil fuel emissions and warns of dire weather conditions to come.

Dr. William Gray is a professor emeritus in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, and has been a meteorologist for 53 years. He strongly disagrees with the conclusions of the U.N. report...

...Gray, who heads the Tropical Meteorology Project at CSU, believes rising global temperatures over the last 30 years are due to deep ocean circulation pattern changes, and predicts that in five or ten years, temperatures will be slightly lower than they are now.

The meteorologist says proponents of human-induced global warming have been attempting to send the public into a panic. "The problem with these global models [is that] they're getting grant money and living off this," he states.

"See, if you scare people and this goes out to the general public, you can get research funds and so on to continue this," he continues. "And they've gradually painted themselves into a corner where they've got to claim worse and worse things to keep their funding going."

Dr. Gray, who is currently finalizing a report on Al Gore's global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth, says the film is a "gross exaggeration" and contains may factual errors.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/02/hurricane_expert_says_global_w.php

Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?

By Timothy Ball Ph.D. Monday, February 5, 2007

Global Warming, as we think we know it, doesn't exist. And I am not the only one trying to make people open up their eyes and see the truth. But few listen, despite the fact that I was the first Canadian Ph.D. in Climatology and I have an extensive background in climatology, especially the reconstruction of past climates and the impact of climate change on human history and the human condition.“Few listen, even though I have a Ph.D, (Doctor of Science) from the University of London, England and was a climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg.” . For some reason (actually for many), the World is not listening. Here is why.

...Believe it or not, Global Warming is not due to human contribution of Carbon Dioxide (CO2). This in fact is the greatest deception in the history of science. We are wasting time, energy and trillions of dollars while creating unnecessary fear and consternation over an issue with no scientific justification. For example, Environment Canada brags about spending $3.7 billion in the last five years dealing with climate change almost all on propaganda trying to defend an indefensible scientific position while at the same time closing weather stations and failing to meet legislated pollution targets...

entire article at http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warming020507.htm

Harder Than Ever for Cynics to Dismiss Global Warming (IPCC Conclusion Scientifically Robust)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1778282/posts

Inconvenient Kyoto Truths
Msnbc 02/05/2007
...Was life better when a sheet of ice a mile thick covered Chicago? Was it worse when Greenland was so warm that Vikings farmed there? Feb. 12, 2007 issue - Enough already. It is time to call some bluffs. John Kerry says that one reason America has become an "international pariah" is President Bush's decision to "walk away from global warming." Kerry's accusation is opaque, but it implies the usual complaint that Bush is insufficiently enthusiastic about the Kyoto Protocol's binding caps on emissions of greenhouse gases. Many senators and other experts in climate science say we must "do something" about global warming. Barack Obama says "the world" is watching to see "what action we take."...

(Excerpt) Read more at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16960409/site/newsweek/

Brief History of Ice Ages and Warming
http://www.clearlight.com/~mhieb/WVFossils/ice_ages.html#anchor29241

The New York Times admits Palestinians use hospitals to fire from and colleges for arsenals.
Read at http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/02/new_york_times_and_palestinian.html

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