Dear Friend,
Thank you for adding your name to the thousands of pastors, Christians, and evangelical leaders from across the country who have signed the WeGetIt.org declaration! If a million Christians sign this statement, we can send an important message to our leaders that Biblical principles and factual evidence, not media hype about things like global warming, should guide our care of the environment and the poor.
Every week, the WeGetIt.org Wednesday Bulletin provides updates on the stewardship-related news of our day, and offers some practical ways to think Biblically about these issues. As you read, please be thinking of the people you know who would benefit from this information. Then, forward this message to your friends and encourage them to sign the declaration.
"Climate isn’t fragile," WeGetIt.org supporter tells Senate Committee
Earth's climate is far less sensitive to greenhouse gas increases than previously thought, climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee July 22. Spencer is principal research scientist at the University of Alabama Huntsville's Earth System Science Center, and a former NASA scientist. He recently signed the WeGetIt.org declaration.
Spencer reported the results of studies conducted using NASA satellites. They showed that natural variations in cloud cover associated with ocean and atmosphere cycles explain 70 percent of all the global climate change of the last century. With solar variations explaining much of the remainder, that left little role for greenhouse gases.
The studies also showed that cirrus clouds diminish as surface temperature rises, allowing more heat to escape to space and acting as a negative feedback on warming. Because all the computer climate models treated the clouds as a positive feedback (adding to warming), this result contradicts them.
One conclusion of the studies is that doubled atmospheric carbon dioxide would add only one-sixth as much warming as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has claimed. That means much less effect on sea level, storms, species extinction, and other dangers thought to be associated with global warming.
Review: Children’s book debunks global warming hysteria
In Earth in the Balance (1992), Al Gore planned to use schools to spread belief in catastrophic, manmade global warming. Today, many schools use environmental curriculum that needlessly frightens children. The propaganda has brought on "climate change delusion."
Now there is an alternative. Al Sonja Schmidt's Deb & Seby's Real Deal on Global Warming is serious science comprehensible to children and parents. The cartoon book presents a well-informed realist view on global warming that should quiet children's--and parents'--fears.
Mrs. Schmidt presents standard claims of global warming alarmists and hard data to refute them--on temperature trends, greenhouse gases, Earth's resilience, natural versus human influence on climate, building wealth to improve human welfare, temperature mitigation, and more.
She unmasks global warming alarmists' propaganda techniques, reveals and refutes their anti-human world view, exposes their history of false alarms, reassures readers that polar bears are not endangered by CO2 emissions, and lists additional resources.
Mrs. Schmidt, a writer and producer of Emmy-nominated children's TV programs, writes in an entertaining, clear, simple manner, yet communicates hard facts with solid reasoning. Observing the impact of global warming propaganda on her own children motivated her. The result is gratifying.
Good intentions: Ethanol causing increased hunger
The Apostle Paul wrote to the Galatians that the leaders of the Jerusalem church had asked him to "remember the poor" and said that was the very thing he was "eager to do" (Galatians 2:10). That verse should be on the mind of every policy maker when considering the diversion of food crops to energy.
Millions of poor the world over are facing higher food prices, and some are even being driven into starvation, because America is turning its corn into ethanol in part to fight global warming.
But more than 31,000 scientists have signed the Global Warming Petition Project, affirming that “there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide...[will cause] disruption of the earth’s climate.”
For Christians, the effect on the poor must be a critical consideration. By subsidizing and mandating ethanol, we are literally starving people. That must end.
Thanks for reading! Word of mouth is the most effective way to get the truth out. Help us reach one million signers by forwarding this email to your friends, and encouraging them to sign the WeGetIt.org declaration. Together, we can take a stand for truth and for the poor.
Gratefully,
-- The WeGetIt.org campaign team
