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Global warming "takes a break,"
but the media soldiers on
Let them eat cake
Is the economy doing too well?

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Global warming "takes a break," but the media soldiers on


	Video makes light of green crusaders

Here’s a fun item: Stuart Shepard, who produces a comedy sketch for Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink, points out that global temperatures seem to have been declining since 2001.

Didn’t hear about that on the news? Not surprising. The media tends to report catastrophic predictions, but bury (or just ignore) evidence that the hype is overblown. Take, for example, Al Gore’s prediction of hurricane’s of increasing strength and frequency. Since he made that prediction in 2006, Shepard reports that the measure of hurricane intensity “fell off a cliff. Oops.”

Click here to watch the video. Then, tell your friends to sign the WeGetIt.org Declaration. Now, more than ever, we need to tell our leaders to stand for righteousness and protect the poor.

Let them eat cake

If the U.S. government adopts a cap-and-trade program to reduce CO2 emissions to fight global warming, it'll cost the average U.S. household $1,218 per year--or the whole nation $144.8 billion per year.

That's the conclusion of a new report by the Tax Foundation, which explains that the burden would fall disproportionately on "low-income households, those under age 25 and over 75, residents of southern states, and single parents with dependent children." For those in the bottom fifth of income earners, the hit would equal about 6.2% of their household income; for those in the top fifth, about 1.4%.

That makes cap-and-trade a highly regressive tax.

Is the economy doing too well?

A thoughtful piece in The New Yorker, even though it assumes (counter to the historical record) that human prosperity is bad for the environment, unintentionally gives us a glimpse behind the curtain of radical environmentalism's quest for CO2 emissions reductions in the quixotic quest to fight global warming:

So far, the most effective way for a Kyoto signatory to cut its carbon output has been to suffer a well-timed industrial implosion, as Russia did after the collapse of the Soviet Union, in 1991. . . .

The world’s financial and energy crises are connected, and they are similar because credit and fossil fuels are forms of leverage: oil, coal, and natural gas are multipliers of labor in much the same way that credit is a multiplier of wealth. . . .

The ultimate success or failure of Obama’s program, and of the measures that will be introduced in Copenhagen this year, will depend on our willingness, once the global economy is no longer teetering, to accept policies that will seem to be nudging us back toward the abyss.

Actually, draconian cuts in CO2 emissions won't just seem to nudge us back toward the abyss; they will really shove us, and especially the poor, over the edge. But such policies are the natural result of an unbiblical worldview that sees people as the problem, not the solution.

Now, more than ever, Christians must stand for the truth, and for the poor. Will you join us in that stand?

Now, please forward this message to your pastor, other Christian leaders, and friends and urge them to sign the WeGetIt.org Declaration, too!

The more people sign, the stronger the message our leaders will hear that Biblical principles and factual evidence, not media hype about speculative fears like global warming, should guide our care for the environment and the poor.

Gratefully,

-- The WeGetIt.org campaign team

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