Great article. Here's another link:
http://geology.com/united-states-satellite-images.shtml
Start at Bermuda. It's the little dry spot in the Atlantic that's East and South of Cape Hatteras (North Carolina/Virgina area). Then continue to scroll East (with right arrow button). Do you see the sand? It's ALL over North Africa.
Continue past the Suez Canal and check out Saudi Arabia.
Do you see the sand?
Continue scrolling and check out Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, and China.
What color is it?
Could this be where all that global "warming" is coming from?
Has it been centuries of hard core industrialization and the burning of "fossil" fuels that brings on our hurricanes?
If those greedy ancient capitalist North Africans, Middle Easterners, and Central Asians industrialists had only been more environmental friendly!!!! They should have used cleaner burning technology back when they were sacking Jerusalem, spreading their religion with the sword, and shooting arrows with their composite bows while on horseback.
See the picture of Israel:
http://www.science.co.il/images/satellite/f/Negev-STS037-151-124.jpg
See where the irrigation ends?
Here's a photo with political boundaries added.
http://leskameleons.free.fr/index.php?mod=gallery&action=img&id_gal=2&id_img=80
Why do we have wacky quacky science using faulty models?
Psalm 36:
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Sin directs the heart of the wicked; their eyes are closed to the fear of God.
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For they live with the delusion: their guilt will not be known and hated.
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Empty and false are the words of their mouth; they have ceased to be wise and do good.
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In their beds they hatch plots; they set out on a wicked way; they do not reject evil.
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There has never left us the Command and Curse to Adam that we should labor over the land:
Proverbs 12:11
He who tills his own land has food in plenty, but he who follows idle pursuits is a fool.
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Considering our modern technologies and how hard our ancestors had it, we should feel blessed to refocus on agrarian ecologies and economies.
Genesis 3:
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To the man he said: "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat, "Cursed be the ground because of you! In toil shall you eat its yield all the days of your life.
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Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you, as you eat of the plants of the field.
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By the sweat of your face shall you get bread to eat, Until you return to the ground, from which you were taken; For you are dirt, and to dirt you shall return."
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Message of Hope from all of this:
Revelations 6:6
I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures. It said, "A ration of wheat costs a day's pay, and three rations of barley cost a day's pay. But do not damage the olive oil or the wine."
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and the footnote:
6 [6] A day's pay: literally, "a denarius," a Roman silver coin that constitutes a day's wage in Matthew 20:2. Because of the famine, food was rationed and sold at an exorbitant price. A liter of flour was considered a day's ration in the Greek historians Herodotus and Diogenes Laertius. Barley: food of the poor (John 6:9, 13; cf 2 Kings 7:1, 16, 18); it was also used to feed animals; cf 1 Kings 5:8. Do not damage: the olive and the vine are to be used more sparingly in time of famine.
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Personally, I think the "oil" and the "wine" have to do more with Catholic Sacraments. And the Irrigation I consider most important is Baptism and the River of Souls God desires.
