Stones Cry Out

"For my conservative friends who still believe that all climate change we're seeing is simply cyclical, keep reading, because I'm not writing to argue that point (you wouldn't be convinced anyway, although the huge majority of scientists are)." --We certainly won't be convinced if you start out by insulting us. If you really care about global warming how about making an argument instead of an appeal to authority. We're sincere, fair-minded people too. If you make a good argument we will consider it.

I think Jim was trying to say that this post wasn't opening up a debate in the comment section, and neither is he trying to convince anyone. Instead, he's appealing to each Christian's command to be a good steward of our resources regardless of who you think should ultimately deal with it, or indeed what is causing it.

Fer instance, Jim and I have some different views on this, but I can get behind this effort. Recently started buying florescent replacement bulbs. Appeals to both the Christian and, incidentally, the "evil capitalist" in me. >grin<

I don't doubt global warming, but I question the rush to blame man as the sole reason for it. To name just one example, a recent study in Holland indicates that cosmic radiation plays a direct role in cloud formation, which leads to cooler temperatures. This sort of radiation has been on the ebb in recent decades.

I am sure that man is responsible in part for global warming, but we don't yet know how culpable we are. Regardless, we have to embrace mankind's role as stewards of the environment, but I don't think we understand all the elements at play yet.

I've posted a number of interesting links on my site...if you go there and sort by "global warming" you might find some interesting reading.

[This comment was posted earlier today but was, for some reason, rejected by the spam filters. -Doug]

No insult intended, Jeremy. I am a conservative and I have many conservative friends who see this one differently, including Doug (and also my wife, incidentally). I'm resigned to the fact that we won't persuade each other on the fundamental question of whether global warming is human-induced and will continue to worsen, or natural and cyclical.

(But the scientists are still lined up on my side.)

But I'll hope you'll consider the Cooling Creation program referenced the post.

Thanks for commenting. Stay cool.

"For my fundamentalist friends who belive there is no global warming, I'm not sure what world you're living in, but I hope you are enjoying it there." --Are you sure this is not meant as an insult? I'm not a fundamentalist and I do believe the earth is warming but this language doesn't exactly open up the discussion. I am a scientist in an unrelated field and I don't find your appeal to scientific authority to be at all helpful. If you have an argument, make it, or perhaps reference another site. I don't think it's fair to just gloss over the issue by pointing to a bunch of guys in lab coats. I have one too and I don't think it makes me infallible or immune to political pressure and group-think.

As I have posted before, I'm agnostic when it comes to Global Warming. However, I am not agnostic when it comes to the wise use of resources and the reduction of pollution. Pollution is a blight and a health risk, whether or not it helps to melt the ice caps and calcify the seas. Almost all of our resources are, to one degre or another, limited. It is essential that, as we think about passing the earth that our Lord created down to our children, grand children, and great grandchildren, that we think carefully and in a long-term manner. Jim's post, and the link he provides, only serves to forward this. If all Americans were to take some simple steps to change even some of our ways, we could do much and yet not hurt the economy.

If humans are causing global warming on earth, then how do you explain the global warming that is taking place on Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn's moon, Titan. The ice caps on Mars have shrunk tremendously over the past 20 years. Of course, that effect happens to coincide with the sun emitting heat at a greater rate over the past few decades.

I hate to disagree with a fellow Christian, but the global warming of the past several decades is more the result of normal changes in the sun, not by mankind. Besides, water vapor has many times the greenhouse effect that carbon dioxide and all the other greenhouse gases have.

I was in the environmental business for 15 years, have degrees in chemistry and chemical engineering, and left the environmental field because I was tired of all the lies promulgated by extremists and misleading good people.