[MissEdie]

A wee bit of humor for today, I thought ya'll may enjoy reading this.

[BenLurkin]

The lefties sure are unhappy about Zark catching hell.

[Red Badger]

I hate it when I get refutted............

[Wonder Warthog]

"What rational people reject isn't climate change, but rather the baby boomer fantasy that, this time, climate change is somehow different and special."

Excuse me, please--but this fantasy isn't limited to "baby boomers", but to eco-fanatics of all ages. It is the eco-fanaticism that is the problem, not the baby boomers (I know 'cuz I are one--baby-boomer, that is.).

[PBRSTREETGANG]

When did he get his first "futt"?

[griswold3]

Speaking of volcanoes and tsunamis....
What's Gore gonna do about THEM!!! (especially the ones in the artic ocean)

[Jaxter]

I'm super serial.

[GBA]

Great post! It should be required reading in EVERY science and political science class. The first would hopefully see the humor, the second needs to.

[roaddog727]

Gore - The grand-high self-agrandizer!

[DoctorMichael]

Is there only one (1) 't' in refuted?

1 entry found for refuted.

re·fute    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (r-fyt)
tr.v. re·fut·ed, re·fut·ing, re·futes

1. To prove to be false or erroneous; overthrow by argument or proof: refute testimony.
2. To deny the accuracy or truth of: refuted the results of the poll.

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[Latin reftre. See bhau- in Indo-European Roots.]

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re·futa·bili·ty (r-fyt-bl-t, rfy-t-) n.
re·futa·ble (r-fyt-bl, rfy-t-) adj.
re·futa·bly adv.
re·futer n.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

I can't believe this is published in an "alternative weekly." The LA Weekly would never in a gazillion years publish such an affront to liberal orthodoxy...makes me think I need to get the h*** out of LA.

Great read.

[polymuser]

"We [humans] are the most powerful force in nature."

Guess that leaves God out.

[wayoverontheright]

Great post!

The econutjobs refuse to entertain even the POSSIBILITY that solar activity could cause a warming of the earth, no, it HAS to be man.

The real agenda of the global warming crowd is to starve the capitalist system of energy of ANY KIND. Wind power? Kills birds. Coal? Too dirty. Nuclear power? Too dangerous. Drill ANWR? Pristine. Don't touch it. Ethanol? Not enough land. Won't work.

The only energies they like are the ones which involve technologies which are years away from producing any energy.

[Lost Highway]

I couldn't find the article on the site. Can you give a link to it?

[Incorrigible]

Bump

[RobRoy]

bookmark.

what a crackup!

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Yikes!
Pinging my boomer brother BTW he's no Sooner.

[spintreebob]

"We are the most powerful force in nature"

A many who has invented the internet and had a major Hollyweird movie made about his love life obviously has the power to turn Mt Pinatubo on and off, and stop those hurricanes ... if only the oil industry had not stolen the election from Gore.

[BaBaStooey]

"We [humans] are the most powerful force in nature." - Al Gore

I haven't made it to the chapter on envionmentalism in Ann Coulter's new book about the religion of liberalism, but I think it will pretty much go hand in hand with what I've known about liberalism and the environment all along.

Liberals don't like the concepts of morality, religion, or God. Mostly because they fly in the face of their "if it feels good, do it" philosophy. They want to have the freedom to do whatever they so please while freeing themselves from the shackles of responsibility and owning up to their actions.

There are paths you eventually go down when you accept the belief that there is no God the creator. One of these is that man has no God-given rights, which is just fine by these people, since they pretty much embrace the idea of socialism over democracy any day of the week. This goes against the demonstrable natural tendency of human beings to want to be free, whether they were born and grew up in America or in a repressive regime like Iraq (I'm certain you all recall the blissful joy on the faces of the people when the US troops showed up in Baghdad and they knew they didn't have to fear Saddam Hussein any longer), but liberals are willing to ignore this in order to suit their purposes.

The other dark path has to do with the creation of Earth and the Universe. With no faith in a Creator, God, to explain things that scientifically may never be able to be explained, they try to come up with other theories to explain how we got here. "It all happened at random." "We evolved from a pile of goo on the ground." "There was a big bang, and stuff just started happening, man!" Einstein spent his whole life devoted to science, and the scientific explanation of God's Creation. In the end, even Einstein knew that there was a higher power at work in the grand design. The Earth was too perfect to simply have come about through some random process.

The dark path here is that if you believe that there is no God who created the Earth, you begin to overestimate the abilities of man in terms of what he can do to this planet. You see, no man has the ability to do what God can do. How, therefore, can man have the ability to destroy something God created? If you think the Earth came about randomly, this question doesn't enter your mind.

If our inalienable human rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were granted to us by our Creator, they cannot be taken away. If there is no Creator, then these rights were given to us by man, or by government, a creation of man. They can therefore be taken away. If the Earth was created for us by God, we cannot destroy it, for we are not greater than God. If there is no God, then we are capable of destroying the Earth.

God created the Earth. There is unmistakable proof that the Earth does not want to die. God made it that way. A recent article in National Review covers the topic of polar ice melting and the rising of the ocean level in detail. First of all, the only ice capable of causing the level of the oceans to rise is the ice currently on land (Greenland and Antarctica). Polar Ice floating on top of water will not change the level of the oceans. Studies have shown that despite the ozone hole over Antarctica, the amount of ice on the continent has actually grown over the years.

Why? Because when the temperature rises and gets nearer to the freezing point of water, it snows. Ice does melt off the tip of Antarctica which is near the tip of South America. But it is cancelled out, and then some, by snow which gets added to the middle of the continent. You see, every time something bad potentially happens to the Earth, the Earth does something to show it won't give up. The Earth wants to live. God made it that way.

When holes show up in the ozone layer, people freak out. But then, these holes close up. People don't realize that the chemical reaction which causes oxygen (O2) to become ozone (O3) is an endothermic reaction. It requires heat. When the ozone layer goes away, and the temperature goes up, the heat is generated and ozone is created. It is a cycle. Then sun creates ozone. The Earth doesn't want to die. God created it that way.

Without the belief that God does exist, man becomes so arrogant that he believes that he is capable of destroying something which God created. It is simply not the case. Now, this is not an argument to go out and do whatever you want, because we cannot possibly destroy the Earth. Like all of God's gifts, we must treat the Earth with reverence and respect. And for the most part, this is done. Its like cleaning up your room. Your parents buy you all those nice toys, but if you don't put them away when you are done playing, there might be consequences. And as you get older, you realize, you don't like living in a messy room. Much like how you don't like living in a polluted area. Should we be responsible with God's gift? Yes. But we should take comfort in knowing that these environmentalists simply don't understand what they are talking about.

[dead]

That was a fine summation of the situation, or lack thereof.

[Old Professer]

I tried to enjoy this, but I couldn't get rid of that stupid image of Gore getting rebutted.