WHATEVER HAPPENED TO COMMON SENSE REGARDING CLIMATE CHANGE?
By Susan Stamper Brown
Fear mongering is quite lucrative in what seems to be a burgeoning “climate change industrial complex,†where certain people benefit monetarily or politically in their promotion of global catastrophic risk due to catastrophic global warming.
Al Gore got filthy rich railing over imminent destruction due to rising sea levels, then purchased multiple beachfront properties, despite the “danger.†Now Pope Francis seems to think marketing it as a moral issue may be a handy tool to transfer wealth along with the Obama administration, which just released an EPA report suggesting that climate change may kill 57,000 people by year 2100. France’s environmental minister says the edible spread, Nutella, is damaging the environment.
Alarmists watch a glacier calve into the sea in Greenland, and have a meltdown over a meltdown that has happened before and will most likely happen again. Were they not so overcome by the desire for wanton gain and/or ridiculously debilitating fear, they might actually savor the moment to witness the rugged, unmatched majesty of God’s creation. And maybe realize the One which created it is powerful enough to maintain it, despite bovine flatulation, vehicle exhaust or edible spreads.
Whatever happened to common sense?
Consider Greenland. Historical knowledge would help us understand that the ice field known as Greenland was once warmer than it is today. So warm in fact, back in AD 1000, it is said the Vikings took advantage of ice-free waters during the Medieval Warm Period to settle and farm there. A few years back, archaeologists uncovered rubble to find the Vikings even grew barley and corn. During that same warm period, it is well documented that Europeans did not drown from sea rise, but instead enjoyed long, hot summers, thanks to that scary greenhouse gas plants love, resulting in sumptuous crops and overwhelmingly abundant harvests. Oh, the horror!
And then the earth cooled, but the world did not end.
During the Little Ice Age that followed, from AD 1300 to AD 1850, mountain glaciers expanded and temperatures across the Northern Hemisphere dropped by 1.1 degrees. The deep cold triggered extreme weather elsewhere on the planet (cause and effect), prompting crop failure, widespread famine and death. And alarmists are worried about warming? If I didn’t know better, I’d think some are not looking out for our best interest. Earth scientists say the Little Ice Age was caused by volcanic eruptions, increased El Nino episodes and the reduction of solar sunspots. The New York Times accidentally stumbled on the truth in a March 22, 2014 op-ed, “Lessons from the Little Ice Age,†acknowledging, “No human intervention can avert volcanic eruptions, halt an El Nino episode or delay the onset of drought.â€
God’s nature also seems to be the culprit in Greenland, according to new research indicating that melting of selective Greenland Glaciers is related to geologically-induced heat flow, and not manmade atmospheric global warming.†A December 29, 2014 Climate Change Dispatch article, Greenland Ice Melt Geothermal, Not Manmade, advocates the melting is geothermal, not my V-8 engine (whew!), blaming a “faulted linear valley†for increased heat flow and other natural events they claim “would not occur with atmospheric global warming.â€
Sometimes, it just boils down to common sense — when you consider that an iceberg melts in one part of Greenland while residents in its capital city, Nuuk, feel as if they were entering another Little Ice Age due to a record-cold June. Or, the shipload of climate change scientists which set sail on a “we told you so†mission only to get stuck in the ice in Antarctica during the Southern Hemisphere’s summer last year, surrounded by so much ice, two icebreaker rescue vessels couldn’t cut through to their aid.
Quite obviously, someone’s in control, but it’s not us.
Arrest Made in Burglary of West Side Church
Rickard was charged with the below counts and booked into the Vanderburgh County Detention Center.
CT. I Burglary of a Church
CT. II Theft
CT. III Criminal Mischief
Suspect in Burglary while Armed with a Deadly Weapon Arrested
Duff was charged with the following charges and transported to the Vanderburgh County Detention Center. Case Number: 15-14291
Ct. I Burglary – While Armed with a Deadly Weapon
CT. II Burglary – Breaks and Enters
CT. III Intimidation – Draws / Uses a Deadly Weapon
CT. IV Theft – Receiving Stolen Property
CT. V Theft
CT. VI Criminal Mischief
In April, 2002 Duff was accused of breaking into an Evansville Poli
Convicted Felon Arrested for Possession of a Handgun after Fleeing Officers
On Friday, July 3rd at approximately 5:45p Patrol Officers were following up on a narcotics complaint at 1601 S. Kerth Avenue. During the course of the investigation the officers observed a subject, later identified as Iren Malique Outlaw, frantically trying to get in the front door of the Kerth Avenue address. As the officers approached, Outlaw turned, reached into his pants and ran away. Outlaw was told to stop as the officers pursued him on foot. Outlaw was observed throwing a handgun over a fence and then falling over the fence. Outlaw was then taken into custody and the handgun was recovered. The handgun was loaded with a round in the chamber and the “safety†of the weapon was in the “fire†position.
Outlaw was arrested on the following charges and booked into the Vanderburgh County Detention Center. Case Number: 15-14299
CT. I Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon
CT. II Resisting Law Enforcement
Outlaw has four prior felony convictions in Vanderburgh County.
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EMANCIPATION by Jim Redwine
Gavel Gamut
By Jim Redwine
(Week of 06 July 2015)
EMANCIPATION
Every year of my public education my classmates and I received instruction in American history. The themes were perforce the same for twelve years. 1492 was usually the date given for our “discoveryâ€; 1776 was our birthday; and 1861 – 1865 was when we became the United States.
Within these last four years many lessons were taught of war and freedom. The Emancipation Proclamation, preliminarily issued September 22, 1862 and officially declared January 1, 1863, was said to, “free the slavesâ€. Of course, it only freed those in bondage in states of the Confederacy.
Still it was an act of great courage and good will. And Posey County’s own Robert Dale Owen was influential in its creation. On September 19, 1862 Owen’s friend, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, directly gave President Lincoln a letter from Owen that called for emancipating all those in bondage wherever they were in America.
Robert Dale Owen had served two terms in Congress, 1843 – 1847, and was leaving Congress as Abraham Lincoln was starting his only term, 1847 – 1849. While Owen knew Lincoln, he feared his call for radical reform would fail without Chase’s help.
Today we have a former member of Congress from Illinois serving as president during times of great challenges and opportunity. President Obama’s unlikely election and re-election are similar to the odds Lincoln faced.
However, President Obama’s poll numbers are rising as he completes his last term. Perhaps he will seize the opportunity to go boldly where Lincoln led the way and call for equality for our current pariahs.
It seems every age must have its whipping boy and ours are Muslims, Arabs and Persians. After freeing Blacks, Indians, Jews, Catholics, women, Irish, Italians, Poles, Germans, Japanese, homosexuals and Hispanics, it is time to emancipate our current nemesis and, perhaps, derive the same great benefits for ourselves we received when freedom and equality was afforded to these other groups.
Every year of my public education my classmates and I received instruction in American history. The themes were perforce the same for twelve years. 1492 was usually the date given for our “discoveryâ€; 1776 was our birthday; and 1861 – 1865 was when we became the United States.
Within these last four years many lessons were taught of war and freedom. The Emancipation Proclamation, preliminarily issued September 22, 1862 and officially declared January 1, 1863, was said to, “free the slavesâ€. Of course, it only freed those in bondage in states of the Confederacy.
Still it was an act of great courage and good will. And Posey County’s own Robert Dale Owen was influential in its creation. On September 19, 1862 Owen’s friend, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, directly gave President Lincoln a letter from Owen that called for emancipating all those in bondage wherever they were in America.
Robert Dale Owen had served two terms in Congress, 1843 – 1847, and was leaving Congress as Abraham Lincoln was starting his only term, 1847 – 1849. While Owen knew Lincoln, he feared his call for radical reform would fail without Chase’s help.
Today we have a former member of Congress from Illinois serving as president during times of great challenges and opportunity. President Obama’s unlikely election and re-election are similar to the odds Lincoln faced.
However, President Obama’s poll numbers are rising as he completes his last term. Perhaps he will seize the opportunity to go boldly where Lincoln led the way and call for equality for our current pariahs.
It seems every age must have its whipping boy and ours are Muslims, Arabs and Persians. After freeing Blacks, Indians, Jews, Catholics, women, Irish, Italians, Poles, Germans, Japanese, homosexuals and Hispanics, it is time to emancipate our current nemesis and, perhaps, derive the same great benefits for ourselves we received when freedom and equality was afforded to these other groups.
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This week’s show features Indiana State Police Public Information Officer, Captain Dave Bursten and Church Brothers Collision Repair President, Ted McClintic. Captain Bursten and Mr. McClintic discuss the upcoming Indiana State Police/Church Brothers car show on August 29th to benefit the Gary Dudley Memorial Scholarship Foundation.
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