{"id":588,"date":"2007-01-23T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2007\/01\/the-smoking-gun-1600-page-global-warming-report-out-soon.html"},"modified":"2007-01-23T07:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T07:05:00","slug":"the-smoking-gun-1600-page-global-warming-report-out-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2007\/01\/the-smoking-gun-1600-page-global-warming-report-out-soon.html","title":{"rendered":"The Smoking Gun&#8211;1600 Page Global Warming Report Out Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1600 pages is a big report.  Trouble is, it is only the first of four parts, the result of an enormous and some have said definitive report demonstrating beyond reasonable doubt that there is human causation of several sorts when it comes to global warming.  The first part will be out in early February.  America&#8217;s top climate scientist, Jerry Mahlman joined with Canada&#8217;s leading climate scientist, Andrew Weaver in saying the evidence is now compelling and beyond dispute.  In fact he says of the report: &#8220;This isn&#8217;t a smoking gun,climate is a battalion of intergalactic smoking missles.&#8221;    You can read the AP story here at the following link&#8212;<br \/>http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/16760730\/. <\/p>\n<p>I will not belabor the point since we have been talking about it already this week.  I will simply say this report is written by 600 scientists  reviewed by 600 others from 154 countries.  That is what we call definitive and compelling. And one important thing about scientists. They tend to be very cautious as a group.  They use words like maybe,  possibly, or probably.  They hardly ever say something is definitive, or beyond argument. This is what makes this peer reviewed detailed report so remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>Cynthia Rosenweig from NASA authored the chapter which details the already very evident effects on human health, species engineering and food production of global warming. <\/p>\n<p>Read the article and see what you think.  <\/p>\n<p>Since the rapture is not a Biblical doctrine at all but rather something dreamed up by a teenage girl in about 1820 at a revival in Glasgow Scotland  and then preached  by Darby and Moody  neither of whom were ever Bible experts, perhaps we had better pay attention and see what a proper Christian  response should be to this crisis, especially for the sake of being a good witness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1600 pages is a big report. 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