Monday, August 31, 2009
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Global Warming
1. It is true that ancient glaciers show that there is a connection between C02 and warming, but it is the opposite of what you say here. The studies show that as temperature rises, C02 levels rise--around 1000 years after the temperature rises:
"As temperature rises, CO2 also rises but lags the warming by 800 to 1000 years (Monnin 2001, Caillon 2003, Stott 2007).How does warming cause a rise in atmospheric CO2? As the oceans warm, the solubility of CO2 in water falls (Martin 2005). This causes the oceans to give up more CO2, emitting it into the atmosphere. The exact mechanism of how the deep ocean gives up its CO2 is not fully understood but believed to be related to vertical ocean mixing (Toggweiler 1999)." ("CO2 lags temperature - what does it mean?")
2. Sea levels are not rising. According to Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level Change, "the sea is not rising. It hasn't risen in 50 years." (Rise of sea levels is 'the greatest lie ever told')
3. A rise in temperature is not melting the ice caps. Ice at the North Pole is decreasing and ice at the South Pole is decreasing. Overall, ice is remaining the same: "In 2007 2008, two very different records were set. The Arctic broke the previous record for the least sea ice area ever recorded, while the Antarctic broke the record for the most sea ice area ever recorded. Summed up over the entire earth, polar ice has remained constant..... There has been no net gain or loss of polar sea ice since records began." (Are the ice caps melting?)
4. “NASA stated today that it was wrong when it release a report that 1998 was the warmest year ever recorded in modern history…. According to H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis … James Hansen's well-known claims that 1998 was measured as the warmest year on record in the U.S. were the result of a serious mathematical error. NASA has now corrected that error, and 1934 is now known as the warmest year on record, with 1921 the third warmest year instead of 2006 as was also previously claimed. Moreover, NASA now also has to admit that three of the five warmest years on record occurred before 1940-it has up until now held that all five of them occurred after 1980.” ("NASA Admits that 1934, Not 1998, was the Warmest Year on Record ")
5. This website suggests that at least some of the temperature increases may be due to where the thermometers are being placed--such as right next to incinerators.
6. “For nearly a decade now, there has been no global warming. Even though atmospheric carbon dioxide continues to accumulate - it's up about 4 percent since 1998 - the global mean temperature has remained flat. That raises some obvious questions about the theory that CO2 is the cause of climate change.”
7. Some scientists do not believe in human-caused global warming. Richard Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT, is one example.
"As temperature rises, CO2 also rises but lags the warming by 800 to 1000 years (Monnin 2001, Caillon 2003, Stott 2007).How does warming cause a rise in atmospheric CO2? As the oceans warm, the solubility of CO2 in water falls (Martin 2005). This causes the oceans to give up more CO2, emitting it into the atmosphere. The exact mechanism of how the deep ocean gives up its CO2 is not fully understood but believed to be related to vertical ocean mixing (Toggweiler 1999)." ("CO2 lags temperature - what does it mean?")
2. Sea levels are not rising. According to Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level Change, "the sea is not rising. It hasn't risen in 50 years." (Rise of sea levels is 'the greatest lie ever told')
3. A rise in temperature is not melting the ice caps. Ice at the North Pole is decreasing and ice at the South Pole is decreasing. Overall, ice is remaining the same: "In 2007 2008, two very different records were set. The Arctic broke the previous record for the least sea ice area ever recorded, while the Antarctic broke the record for the most sea ice area ever recorded. Summed up over the entire earth, polar ice has remained constant..... There has been no net gain or loss of polar sea ice since records began." (Are the ice caps melting?)
4. “NASA stated today that it was wrong when it release a report that 1998 was the warmest year ever recorded in modern history…. According to H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis … James Hansen's well-known claims that 1998 was measured as the warmest year on record in the U.S. were the result of a serious mathematical error. NASA has now corrected that error, and 1934 is now known as the warmest year on record, with 1921 the third warmest year instead of 2006 as was also previously claimed. Moreover, NASA now also has to admit that three of the five warmest years on record occurred before 1940-it has up until now held that all five of them occurred after 1980.” ("NASA Admits that 1934, Not 1998, was the Warmest Year on Record ")
5. This website suggests that at least some of the temperature increases may be due to where the thermometers are being placed--such as right next to incinerators.
6. “For nearly a decade now, there has been no global warming. Even though atmospheric carbon dioxide continues to accumulate - it's up about 4 percent since 1998 - the global mean temperature has remained flat. That raises some obvious questions about the theory that CO2 is the cause of climate change.”
7. Some scientists do not believe in human-caused global warming. Richard Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT, is one example.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
Friday, August 21, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Homosexual Sex
Is it morally wrong for people to engage in homosexual sex?
Please note:
1. Is is not true that new HIV/AIDS cases in the U.S. are primarily among heterosexuals. Here are the latest statistics from the Center for Disease Control:
Transmission Category
Estimated # of HIV/AIDS Cases, in 2007
Adult and Adolescent Male
Adult and Adolescent Female
Total
Male-to-male sexual contact
22,472
-
22,472
Injection drug use
3,133
1,806
4,939
Male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use
1,260
-
1,260
High-risk heterosexual contact*
4,551
9,076
13,627
Other**
102
96
198
*Heterosexual contact with a person known to have, or to be at high risk for, HIV infection.**
Includes hemophilia, blood transfusion, perinatal exposure, and risk not reported or not identified.
In 2007, the majority of new HIV/AIDS cases occurred as a result of men having sex with men.
2. It seems to be a myth that HIV/AIDS is most prevalent among heterosexuals in Africa:
"The study by researchers at the University of Tuebingen in Germany proposes that anal sex, both heterosexual and homosexual, is the second biggest cause of HIV transmission in Africa, following transmission in medical settings, such as through dirty needles. The researchers believe vaginal transmission of HIV is a distant third."
See also, "Men who have sex with men and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa" in the Lancet.
Please note:
1. Is is not true that new HIV/AIDS cases in the U.S. are primarily among heterosexuals. Here are the latest statistics from the Center for Disease Control:
Transmission Category
Estimated # of HIV/AIDS Cases, in 2007
Adult and Adolescent Male
Adult and Adolescent Female
Total
Male-to-male sexual contact
22,472
-
22,472
Injection drug use
3,133
1,806
4,939
Male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use
1,260
-
1,260
High-risk heterosexual contact*
4,551
9,076
13,627
Other**
102
96
198
*Heterosexual contact with a person known to have, or to be at high risk for, HIV infection.**
Includes hemophilia, blood transfusion, perinatal exposure, and risk not reported or not identified.
In 2007, the majority of new HIV/AIDS cases occurred as a result of men having sex with men.
2. It seems to be a myth that HIV/AIDS is most prevalent among heterosexuals in Africa:
"The study by researchers at the University of Tuebingen in Germany proposes that anal sex, both heterosexual and homosexual, is the second biggest cause of HIV transmission in Africa, following transmission in medical settings, such as through dirty needles. The researchers believe vaginal transmission of HIV is a distant third."
See also, "Men who have sex with men and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa" in the Lancet.
Homosexual Marriage
Should Texas permit homosexuals to get married?
Some evidence that people are less attached to children to whom they are not biologically related:
1. "Many scholars and social workers who monitor America's families see the abusive-boyfriend syndrome as part of a broader, deeply worrisome trend. They note an ever-increasing share of America's children grow up in homes without both biological parents, and say the risk of child abuse is markedly higher in the nontraditional family structures." (Children at higher risk in nontraditional homes, MSNBC, November 18, 2007)
2. "A Duke University official has been charged in federal court with offering his 5-year-old adopted son up for sex. Frank Lombard, associate director of the Center for Health Policy, was arrested Wednesday in Raleigh, the FBI said." (Duke U. Official Caught in Alleged Child Sex Sting, abcnews, June 26, 2009)
3
. "Once there was a widower who for his second wife, married a proud and haughty woman. She had two daughters, who were equally vain. By his first wife, he had a beautiful young daughter who was a girl of unparalleled goodness and sweet temper. The Stepmother and her daughters forced the first daughter to complete all the housework. When the girl had done her work, she sat in the cinders, which caused her to be called "Cinderella". The poor girl bore it patiently, but she dared not tell her father, who would have scolded her; his wife controlled him entirely." ("Cinderella," wikipedia)
Some evidence that people are less attached to children to whom they are not biologically related:
1. "Many scholars and social workers who monitor America's families see the abusive-boyfriend syndrome as part of a broader, deeply worrisome trend. They note an ever-increasing share of America's children grow up in homes without both biological parents, and say the risk of child abuse is markedly higher in the nontraditional family structures." (Children at higher risk in nontraditional homes, MSNBC, November 18, 2007)
2. "A Duke University official has been charged in federal court with offering his 5-year-old adopted son up for sex. Frank Lombard, associate director of the Center for Health Policy, was arrested Wednesday in Raleigh, the FBI said." (Duke U. Official Caught in Alleged Child Sex Sting, abcnews, June 26, 2009)
3
. "Once there was a widower who for his second wife, married a proud and haughty woman. She had two daughters, who were equally vain. By his first wife, he had a beautiful young daughter who was a girl of unparalleled goodness and sweet temper. The Stepmother and her daughters forced the first daughter to complete all the housework. When the girl had done her work, she sat in the cinders, which caused her to be called "Cinderella". The poor girl bore it patiently, but she dared not tell her father, who would have scolded her; his wife controlled him entirely." ("Cinderella," wikipedia)
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Scarsdale and Desegregation
Westchester Adds Housing to Desegregation Pact
Westchester to spend $50M on fair housing
Monday, August 10, 2009
Friday, August 7, 2009
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Monday, August 3, 2009
Saturday, August 1, 2009
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