It hopefully contains the first samples of an asteroid ever brought back to
Earth by human effort.
Not exact matches
Its achievement is through the spiritual energy imparted
by His spirit in
human hearts, but its final consummation comes slowly through the joint
efforts of God and man, working side
by side, in the struggle to create a new and divine order and to make His will be done on
earth as it is in heaven.
The principal paths that have been followed are an apocalyptic, cataclysmic, second coming to put an end to the present world and the prophetic or social gospel kingdom that has accented the conquest of
earth's evil
by human effort to increase love and justice in response to God's call.
The eleventh commandment: Do not mislead your neighbor about the cause of severe recent global warming
by human activity nor distract from your neighbor
effort to save
Earth for inhabitants of today and tomorrow.
Anyone interested in why I'm so obsessed with the balance of environment and
human development, my thoughts on problems with media coverage of climate, and the genesis of Dot
Earth might enjoy the interview below, filmed
by Brook Silva - Braga for his new Web TV
effort The Interviewpoint.
This Synthesis Report repeats with greater certainty findings that have figured prominently in earlier IPCC assessments, that the
Earth's climate is warming «unequivocally,» that the
human influence in this process is «clear» and that the changing climate is very likely to bring impacts:» [w] ithout additional mitigation
efforts beyond those in place today, and even with adaptation, warming
by the end of the 21st century will lead to high to very high risk of severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts globally.»
In «fact» the only evidence that emissions produced
by human industry have any measurable effect on the «Temperature of the
Earth» is that it is proclaimed loudly and often that it is an unchallenged and unchallengeable fact and every
effort is made do demonize and / or ridicule and / or prosecute as a criminal anyone who dares to question, no matter how mildly, that it is in fact a «fact».
Yet,
by including Foote's 1856 work in the history of climate science, we are reminded that the
effort to understand the
Earth's atmosphere and
human interactions with it has been an ongoing endeavor over a century in the making.
* According to the Berkeley group, the
Earth's surface temperature will have risen (on average) slightly less than what indicated
by NASA, NOAA and the Met Office * Differences will be on the edge of statistical significance, leaving a lot open to subjective interpretation * Several attempts will be made
by climate change conformists and True Believers to smear the work of BEST, and to prevent them from publishing their data * After publication, organised groups of people will try to cloud the issue to the point of leaving the public unsure about what exactly was found
by BEST * New questions will be raised regarding UHI, however the next IPCC assessment's first draft will be singularly forgetful of any peer - reviewed paper on the topic * We will all be left with a slightly - warming world, the only other certitude being that all mitigation
efforts will be among the stupidest ideas that ever sprung to
human mind.