20,000 Scientists Sign Anti-Global Warming Statement

I thought I would watch "An Inconvenient Truth," buy a more fuel efficient vehicle, and be done with this Global Warming phoenomenon. But as it turns out, there is a whole lot more to this issue than the media-at-large would have us believe.

As I said in my review of "An Inconvenient Truth," this film is designed with a broad appeal. It simply doesn't make a focused effort to offend. I must admit that I was hornswaggled by the slick presentation and "soft-sell" tactics.

It started with a friend e-mailing me this statement:

"....if you take even the minimum thickness of the earth's atmosphere (troposphere = 5miles) and calculate the mass of air surrounding the earth and add the CO2 from a billion gallons of gas (about 19 pounds per gallon), this has added about .000000165 percent greenhouse gases into the atmosphere."

Seems like a small and insignificant amount, but futher investigation was necessary. I started checking around some of my most reliable Christian scientific sources, and, lo and behold, I found this article.

Human-Caused Global Warming Slight So Far

In it, the author, Michael Oard, reports that 20,000 Scientists have signed this statement:

There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.
I also advocate this position and further reasoned research, providing a forum for the views of both advocates and dissenters of extreme human-caused global warming.

I must admit that 20,000 Scientists is an impressive amount. Enough for me to say that, upon further investigation, Global Warming is a concern and should be addressed.... BUT, it seems that it is becoming a way for the far-left to bring their pantheistic/athiestic, millions of years/evolutionary thinking further into the mainstream of America.

It is up to us as stewards of the mystery of the gospel, to hold falsehoods and misrepresentations up to the light of Truth. I encourage you to e-mail Michael Oard's article to as many people as possible. Everyone deserves the benefit of a different, dissenting perspective.

BTJ