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Intelligent Design, simply ID-iotic
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“[...] that is why biologists get so mad at the propagation of ID. It wastes time. It suppresses research rather than encouraging it. It’s not really a theory, it’s a story. It deflects the young from asking the important questions. It serves to kill curiosity rather than encourage it. Sometimes it is right to get angry in the face of unreason. Darwinists are readily labelled. There should be an equivalent term for the proponents of Intelligent Design. May I suggest IDiots?”
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Richard Fortey, President Of The Geological Society Of London, Telegraph.co.uk
It’s under way
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It’s nice sometimes to read something that’s shining with optimism. Check it out.
“We Viridians have beaten that clock. There is no need to wait for distant 2012 to declare victory in our war to make green trendy. Green will never get any trendier than it is this year. The atmosphere upgrade is on the way. That process won’t be pretty, but it’s going to happen. The 2012 deadline for Kyoto is already a dead letter, because Kyoto was far too weak and too slow. We are going to see a series of monstrous efforts by large enterprises: private, local, state and national, to save whatever can be saved of the previous natural order. The primary motivator of this effort will be fear. The climate is changing much more quickly and more severely than anyone suspected it would. A rapid, ruthless, headlong clean-tech techno- revolution – in fact, a series of them – is the only global option with a ghost of a chance to save our smoldering planetary bacon.
That’s coming; it is under way.”
Bush administration misleading the public concerning Global Warming
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Democratic chairman of a House panel examining the Bush administration’s response to climate change said had said that evidence exists that the White House has sought repeatedly “to mislead the public by injecting doubt into the science of global warming.” Several Republican senators have also asked for documents from the administration in regards to climate change but have been refused them.
Climate crisis: No time to lose
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On 2 February, a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, based on the work of 2,500 scientists, will give its strongest warning yet that we face potentially catastrophic climate disruption.
The developed nations have barely begun to consider the impact of these changes, as President Bush’s inadequate measures in a so-called “environmentally centred” State of the Union address made clear.
On these pages our specialist contributors spell out a stark message. Chaotic weather change poses grave threats to economic stability and social cohesion. If we act now mankind has a future. But it must be a radically different one.
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An article by Tony McDermott, The Statesman
Global Warming, A Big Lie, according to a monkey called Alan Caruba
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A monkey trying to persuade other monkeys that Global Warming is a lie.
“The answer is we cannot, we must not, continue to allow this Big Lie to be perpetrated. You can and must write letters to your local newspaper every time it shows up. You must protest this lie when you hear it from candidates for the presidency, other politicians, or anyone else. The issues behind the global warming hoax are not about the climate.
They are an assault on the success of capitalism in the Western nations that utilize energy to provide homes and other structures with warmth in the winter and a cool atmosphere in the summer. Nation’s where the widespread use of automobiles allows the population greater mobility. Nation’s whose supermarkets are filled with fresh meat and fish, vegetables and fruits, grown around the world and brought fresh to their shelves. It is an assault on everything we consume to live longer, healthier lives.
The objective of the global warming hoax is to create conditions that would reduce the earth’s population by restricting the use of energy to protect health, to reduce the amount of food that can be grown to feed the population. It is an attack on the countless other ways modern life extends and protects our lives.”
Putting 9/11 into perspective
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The attacks were a horrible act of mass murder, but history says we’re overreacting.
Imagine that on 9/11, six hours after the assault on the twin towers and the Pentagon, terrorists had carried out a second wave of attacks on the United States, taking an additional 3,000 lives. Imagine that six hours after that, there had been yet another wave. Now imagine that the attacks had continued, every six hours, for another four years, until nearly 20 million Americans were dead. This is roughly what the Soviet Union suffered during World War II, and contemplating these numbers may help put in perspective what the United States has so far experienced during the war against terrorism.
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A paper by David A. Bell, LA Times
Listen to the wise
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIFE
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs:
Respect for self
Respect for others and
Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realise you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
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