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An Overlooked Aspect of the Climate Change Debate

 by Mike Bennett Estimated reading time: 3 minutes

The Bible talks about a cause of future climate change that no scientific model can predict and that no amount of debate can debunk. The core of the Bible teaching is simple, but the future predictions are earthshaking.

On Monday the UN climate change conference began in Copenhagen with 192 countries represented. About 100 world leaders are expected to attend various parts of the two-week conference intended to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. An international survey commissioned by the BBC found that “64% of people questioned said that they considered global warming a very serious problem—up 20% from a 1998 poll.” But the recent so-called “ClimateGate” scandal has led to “widening concern about the state of climate science” that “could jeopardize any agreement at this week’s summit in Copenhagen,” said CBS correspondent Declan McCullagh. “To be sure, many—perhaps even most—climate researchers say any flaw in the leaked data assembled by the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) does not mean the theory of man-made global warming is false. Nicholas Stern, chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, calls evidence for that theory ‘overwhelming,’” Mr. McCullagh wrote. Still, a Rasmussen Reports survey shows many Americans are not convinced. Over half think it is likely that some scientists have falsified research data, and 35 percent believe it is “very likely.” Also 49 percent think the United Nations is not a reliable source of information on global warming. Besides these doubts, economic realities and different priorities between industrialized and developing countries seem likely to limit the final agreements of the conference. But in all the debate, is there an important aspect of climate change that is being totally overlooked? The Bible talks about a cause of future climate change that no scientific model can predict and that no amount of debate can debunk. The core of the Bible teaching is simple, but the future predictions are earthshaking. Cause and effect One of the key lessons of the Bible is the lesson of cause and effect. There’s the farming analogy that says you reap what you sow (Galatians 6:7). The wisdom of Proverbs 26:2 tells us that “a curse without cause shall not alight.” And two long chapters in the books of Moses spell out the causes of blessings and the causes of curses (Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28). These blessings and curses include physical things like good or bad weather and agricultural abundance or famine. Interestingly, the cause of these climate changes goes far beyond our decisions about how to treat the environment. God says the blessings and curses are the consequences of whether we obey His laws (Deuteronomy 28:1, 15). Part of God’s commands deal with how we care for His earth, and God is angry with those who destroy the earth (Genesis 2:15; Revelation 11:18). But God tells us that how we treat each other and how we treat Him is also a part of the cause-and-effect equation. Sin—disobedience to God’s laws—will lead to disastrous climate changes. Punishment for sin The mysterious book of Revelation is full of warnings of end-time plagues brought about because of humanity’s rejection of God. The calamities predicted include the death of “every living creature in the sea” and the sun scorching people with “great heat” (Revelation 16:3, 9). Sadly, God tells us that these plagues on the physical environment are necessary to wake people up to the evil effects of sin. But thankfully the God who sends these plagues will also reverse them, and will create a beautiful new environment in which to start over. In the Kingdom of God under Jesus Christ’s rule, the nations of the world will learn not only to care for the environment, but to obey the spiritual laws that create a peaceful climate between people and with God. The prophet Isaiah pictured it like a return to Eden, with hunger and disease removed and joy and gladness in their place (Isaiah 51:3; 35:1-2, 5-7) For a deeper understanding of God’s warnings for the end time and the hope He offers on beyond, read Are We Living in the Time of the End? More details are available in “The Destruction of Satan’s Kingdom” from the booklet The Book of Revelation Unveiled.

“President Embraces Flat Earth Science… and Economics” by Clark Judge

Here is an interesting article from www.hughhewitt.com about the President's energy policy, including the coal policy. This follows this post about the Trayvon Martin case.  In the meantime, you can read an interesting take on society's problems HERE and an interesting book HERE.

“President Embraces Flat Earth Science… and Economics” by Clark Judge



posted by Hugh Hewitt

The weekly column from Clark Judge:



President Embraces Flat Earth Science… and Economics

By Clark S. Judge: managing director, White House Writers Group, Inc.; chairman, Pacific Research Institute



Yesterday President Obama joined the Flat Earth Society.



That’s not how he put it, of course. Just the opposite. He said, “We don’t have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society,” i.e. those not prepared to join him in embracing radical anti-fossil fuel policies.



Put another way, he meant forget about Congress. Congress has repeatedly rejected legislation to authorize what Mr. Obama announced yesterday he would do anyway, essentially by decree. For example, the administration backed a cap and trade bill in 2010. Designed to limit the use of coal and oil, it was so unpopular in that year’s overwhelmingly Democratic Congress that Majority Leader Harry Reid ultimately withdrew it. The issue was not overcoming a filibuster. Reid knew that the bill would have lost an up and down vote on the Senate floor.



Of course, the president was also saying that opponents of anti-climate change legislation are so ignorant of science that they aren’t worth talking to. Who is the truly ignorant one?



Hasn’t anyone told the president that the average global temperature has not increased in fifteen years? As Pacific Research Institute senior fellow Steven Hayward reported recently in The Weekly Standard:







After two decades of steady and substantial global temperature increase from 1980 to 1998, the pause in warming is causing a crisis for the climate crusade. It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. The recent temperature record is falling distinctly to the very low end of the range predicted by the climate models and may soon fall out of it, which means the models are wrong, or, at the very least, something is going on that supposedly “settled” science hasn’t been able to settle. (full article at: http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/climate-circus-leaves-town_718070.html )







Just last week, Germany’s Spiegle Online International posted an interview with Hans von Storch, professor at the Meteorological Institute of the University of Hamburg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Hamburg and among Germany’s most renowned climate scientist. Storch said:







If things continue as they have been, in five years, at the latest, we will need to acknowledge that something is fundamentally wrong with our climate models. A 20-year pause in global warming does not occur in a single modeled scenario. But even today, we are finding it very difficult to reconcile actual temperature trends with our expectations. (full interview here: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-hans-von-storch-on-problems-with-climate-change-models-a-906721.htm l)







Recently I reviewed a new book on climate change (see here: http://spectator.org/archives/2013/06/13/overheated-frauds-and-fools ). Titled The Age of Global Warming: A History, it was written by British policy intellectual Rupert Darwall. Darwall helped found the major British think tank Reform. He is also affiliated with the firm I head. Reading him it is clear that the scientific underpinnings of the global warming theory were always shaky.



The critical “evidence” of catastrophic trends turns out to have been neither repeatable experiments nor hard data but computer models. As noted by one University of Cambridge physicist and investigator of the notorious University of East Anglia “climategate” scandal, the characterization of computer runs as experiments – the norm in the climate change community — “does a disservice to centuries of real experimentation and allows simulations output to be considered as real data…a very serious matter, as it can lead to the idea that ‘real data’ might be wrong because it disagrees with models!” He added, “That is turning centuries of science on its head.”



The president alluded yesterday to economic damage that had resulted from not taking drastic actions against climate change already. Perhaps he was referring to the British government’s 2006 Stern Report. The report concluded that failure to act against global warming “could create economic and social disruption on a scale associated with the First and Second World Wars and the Great Depression of the 1930s.”



But that globally influential report turns out to have been perhaps the most inept – or disingenuous — policy study by a major government in modern history. As I noted in the review, to reach its conclusion, the bureaucrats involved had simply ignored basic rules of economic analysis, counting costs in the nearly infinite future as if they were being faced today. So more than half the damages it attributed to global warming came after… 2050? (No). 2100? (No). 2200? (No). Try after 2800.



All of this wouldn’t be so bad — politicians, like children, will play – except for the consequences. Fracking, the Keystone pipeline and coal technology are promising North America true net energy independence within the decade, arguably the single greatest step we could take to ensuring long-term global peace and domestic prosperity. Apparently all that is to be thrown out the window, assuming the president has his way.



Which just goes to show, in this administration flat earth thinking doesn’t stop at science.

Stop EPA's Assault on Affordable Electricity

A very interesting post from http://actformining.org/ about the EPA's mining rules. This follows this post about natural petroleum  reserves in Alaska. This follows this post about the Keystone XL pipeline.  This follows this article about the recent news about ending the ban on offshore drilling which would encourage American energy independence This is a key issue to prevent money from going to hostile countries such as Iran and Venezuela. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and you can read the very interesting book that is shown HERE!

Stop EPA's Assault on Affordable Electricity


Tell your Senators to Support S.J. Res 37



Join us in calling on Congress to stop the EPA from driving up the price of electricity through backdoor mandates. The EPA is piling on new regulations on Coal - America’s most abundant and affordable source of electricity. These regulations will cause household electricity bills to skyrocket.



With the price of gas reaching $5 a gallon, American's simply can't afford to have the cost of their household electricity being driven up by the misguided energy policies of the EPA.


http://actformining.org/national-actions/stopUMACT/


Ask your Senator to support S.J. Res. 37, which would prevent this misguided rule from increasing your electricity rates and dampen economic growth.

http://actformining.org/national-actions/stopUMACT/

Help Block the Most Expensive EPA Rule Yet!

A very interesting post from http://www.votervoice.net/ about the EPA and stringent coal regulation. This follows this post about the Keystone XL pipeline.  This follows this article about the recent news about ending the ban on offshore drilling which would encourage American energy independence This is a key issue to prevent money from going to hostile countries such as Iran and Venezuela. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and you can read the very interesting book that is shown HERE!

Help Block the Most Expensive EPA Rule Yet!

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is at it again. The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) is set to become the most expensive rule the EPA has ever written for power plants and would cost a total of almost $90 billion.




While the purpose of MATS is to control mercury and similar pollutants, the EPA is attempting to justify the rule and its unprecedented cost because MATS also reduces particulate matter even though the rule was not written for that purpose. However, particulate matter has been subject to other EPA regulations for more than a decade.



The MATS rules could drastically disrupt electricity reliability for the nation. Many public officials and experts have expressed widespread concerns that the new rule would force the premature retirement of many coal-fired power plants. So far, it has been announced that more than 140 coal-fired electricity generating units in 19 states will retire by 2015 because of MATS and other EPA regulations.



The rule will wreak havoc with electricity rates for all Americans and destroy jobs in Appalachia -- we need your help to stop it.



TAKE ACTION now and contact your lawmakers and urge them to disapprove the MATS rule by voting for S.J. Res. 37.



Thank you for your support,

Federation for American Coal, Energy and Security

(FACES of Coal)







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Oppose Obama's $1.8 Billion Tax on American Mining

A very interesting post from http://actformining.org// about restrictive mining operations. This follows this post about the EPA's regulations against American industry.  This follows this previous article about it to encourage American energy independence. This is a key issue to prevent money from going to hostile countries such as Iran  and Venezuela. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and you can read a very interesting book  HERE!

You can also write your two Senators about anti-industrial environmental regulations HERE!

Oppose Obama's $1.8 Billion Tax on American Mining

At a time when America is recovering from one of the worst economic downturns in recent history, President Obama has proposed a $1.8 Billion new tax on American mining.






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Know U.S. Minerals Mining?





Visit our action center today and tell Congress to oppose a new tax on American mining that could destroy American jobs and harm our nation's economic growth.




The new tax would threaten thousands of high-paying American mining jobs and has the potential to seriously harm the economic competitiveness of American mining by driving investments - and much needed to jobs - to other mineral producing countries.



Tell Congress to Protect Our Economy and Oppose a 1.8 billion Tax Increase on American Mining

Coal Industry Mocks Ashley Judd’s Crusade to Destroy a Way of Life

An interesting post from http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ This follows this post about the drilling ban. This follows this post about a creative solution to Gulf drilling and this previous article about the recent news about the ban on offshore drilling to encourage American energy independence This is a key issue to prevent money from going to hostile countries such as Iran and Venezuela. For more posts like this click here.



Coal Industry Mocks Ashley Judd’s Crusade to Destroy a Way of Life
by John Nolte
Ashley Judd’s been running around on a crusade to strengthen the power our oil rich-enemies hold over us and to put coal miners out of work. She calls it “opposing mountaintop removal mining,” but those of us who live in the real world understand the human consequences of her thoughtless narcissism. Speaking for all “hillbillies,” the actress went so far as to single out for criticism golf courses that have been built atop former mining sites, stating “I don’t know a lot of hillbillies who golf.”
Well, the “hillbillies” have struck back. The poster below was on display at a recent coal industry-sponsored golf tournament in Kentucky:
If you want to understand why Hollywoodists are so enamored with dictators, look no further than this. Ashley Judd and Oliver Stone and Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn despise being questioned, mocked and challenged by the hoi polloi, which is why you’ll never hear them criticize a Hugo Chavez for putting the “opposition media” out of business.
Judd’s crusade against the “rape of Appalachia” epitomizes thoughtless and cruel activism. If you remember, when she was asked how she planned to replace the working class jobs her activism against “environmental genocide” would eliminate, she freaked out and accused the interviewer of playing a trick on her.
I own a home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina less than a mile off the famous and stunningly beautiful Appalachian Trail. From my front porch I can also see a golf course. No one loves and wants to preserve the natural beauty of that region more than the people who live there. Coal mining is not just a source of jobs, it’s a way of life, and these good, common sense folks have been remarkably effective at balancing the environment they love with the jobs they need. And they also understand that a golf course qualifies every bit as much as — oh, say – Central Park as “natural beauty.”
“Country” doesn’t mean “dumb.” If Ashley Judd needs validation she should stop searching for it at the expense of bankrupting and upending the lives of countless working-class families and a noble way of life that goes back generations.

Stop the EPA from Setting a Precedent that Threatens Mines Across Appalachia

A very interesting post from www.facesofcoal.org about the attack on domestic fuel development. This follows this post about foreign condemnation of the United States from WITHIN the UNITED STATES and this previous article about the recent news about offshore drilling to encourage American energy independence This is a key issue to prevent money from going to hostile countries such as Iran and Venezuela. For more posts like this click here.


The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has steadily increased its attacks on Appalachian coal mining throughout the year – and has severely overstepped its authority with the revocation on the Spruce No. 1 mining permit.
Why is Spruce No. 1 so important? It’s the first and only time that the EPA has pulled an existing permit and only the 12th time since 1972 that a permit has been vetoed.
The arbitrary actions of the EPA are completely unlawful since the Spruce No 1. mine received all of the necessary approvals after a decade-long process that required authorization from the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and yes, the EPA.
With those approvals, the mine was in operation for three years before the EPA revoked the permit utilizing a provision of the Clean Water Act that only applies before a permit has been issued and against the opinion of the USACE – and the EPA fully acknowledges that they have never used this authority in the 38 years since the Clean Water Act was enacted.
The public comment period on the Spruce No. 1 Mine announcements is open until June 1, 2010 and we need our FACES members to write the EPA and tell them that this unprecedented action should be reversed. We cannot allow the EPA to turn this action into a disastrous precedent that endangers the future of mining in Appalachia.

To submit your comment, you must use the online form at: www.regulations.gov / docket number EPA-R03-OW-2009-0985-0001

When writing, introduce yourself and describe your opposition to the EPA’s action against the Spruce No. 1 mine. Feel free to copy and paste the text below into your message. Federation for American Coal, Energy and Security(FACES of Coal)Suggested text:

I am writing to oppose the revocation of the Spruce No. 1 Mine permit. After three years of operation and after over a decade of permit review by state and federal regulators the EPA revoked the Spruce No. 1 without proper authority or precedent.
To shut down the mine, the EPA is claiming authority under a provision of the Clean Water Act – § 404(c) – that only applies before a permit has been issued, an authority the EPA did not use when the permit was under review in 2007 and goes against U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) opinion, which contends that the EPA has no grounds for revoking the permit.
The EPA is using a Clean Water Act provision and yet, an environmental impact statement compiled by the USACE and reviewed by the EPA concluded that the Spruce No. 1 mining site would “contribute minimally to cumulative impacts on surface water quality” and would add waterways and wetlands after reclamation of the mined lands.
The action against the Spruce No.1 mine is unfair, outrageous and wholly exceeds the authority of the EPA. It threatens of hundreds of jobs at the mining site and could have serious repercussions for all mining jobs in West Virginia and throughout Appalachia.
Coal mining operations already comply with strict environmental standards set by the local, state and federal governments. In addition to complying with all environmental laws and regulations, the coal industry creates new economic opportunities, while meeting the nation’s energy requirements. I strongly urge you to reinstate the Spruce No. 1 permits and provide a fair and realistic approach to evaluating environmental and economic priorities in Appalachia.

Don't Let Federal Regulators Choose Appalachia's Economic Future

A very interesting post from www.FACESofCoal.org about mining. This follows this post about safe offshore drilling and this previous article about the recent news about offshore drilling to encourage American energy independence This is a key issue to prevent money from going to hostile countries such as Iran and Venezuela. For more posts like this click here.

Don't Let Federal Regulators Choose Appalachia's Economic Future
A group of federal agencies have teamed up to make decisions on the future of Appalachia – decisions that could impact our jobs, our communities, our towns and even our own backyards.
The Appalachian Regional Development Initiative, which consists of representatives from the Appalachian Regional Commission, Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Labor, Small Business Administration and Environmental Protection Agency are developing strategies for pushing economic development and allocating federal resources in Appalachia.
Do you want these agencies making decisions without letting them know what you think?
The bureaucrats in Washington have already shown that they do not understand the importance of coal to Appalachia. The ongoing attack on coal by the EPA demonstrates an unwillingness to recognize that the region and nation depend on coal. They fail to see that without the economic base of coal, Appalachia would lose its main economic driver and effectively turn the region into a “no jobs zone.”
The Appalachian Regional Development Initiative has held listening sessions over the past few months and the sessions and comments have been taken over by anti-coal activists pushing their activist agenda. We need you to act now to set the record straight and demonstrate that Appalachian residents support coal!
Time is tight – the online comment period for the Appalachian Regional Development Initiative ends today, April 30th. To submit your comment, you must use the online form:
http://survey.sc.egov.usda.gov/survey.aspx?surveykey=89
The comment section is a little challenging to navigate but this is very important. The online comment section lists five categories. Please add your comments to every section, but pay special attention to the Economic Base Strength category. Coal is Appalachia’s base strength, supplying the region with thousands of jobs and billions to the regional economy while also helping to fund our communities. Make sure the Appalachian Regional Development Initiative hears the voices of the Appalachian residents that are going to be impacted by the decisions they make.
The online comment section limits entries to 150 words and under. If the comments are longer than 150 the survey will not accept the comment. Please tailor your comments to the 150 word limit and ensure that your voice is heard or feel free to copy and paste the text below into your message. Thank you for exercising your voice and your patience in this process.
Federation for American Coal, Energy and Security (FACES of Coal)
Suggested text:
Coal is the BASE STRENGH of Appalachia. Coal can support long-term economic development and will create jobs in the Appalachian region for years to come – as long as the government doesn’t regulate coal mining out of existence! Everything the Appalachian Regional Development Initiative is looking at, from self-sustaining communities with strong leadership, to a skilled work force or the physical infrastructure of the Appalachian region is related to coal mining in some degree. The funding needed for schools, public works and communities are provided by the revenue and taxes generated by coal. Coal is the nation’s most abundant resource and with a two hundred year reserve it’s by far the best long-term guarantee for jobs and economic security in Appalachia – no other industry even comes close to providing the level of support, good-paying jobs, economic growth and stability that coal mining can guarantee.