Verbal Warming

by Dr. Peter Jones
Executive Director, truthXchange
Speaker for Resisting the Green Dragon

… Though recently abandoned by the electorate, the progressive Left still pursues a goal to silence opposing speech and thus to mute the cut and thrust of valid political debate.

Their charges are not idle threats. Politicians call for the application of the so-called "Fairness Doctrine," to regulate content on the airwaves, and Jewish Funds for Fairness, heavily financed by the Leftist billionaire George Soros and inspired by the Marxist Saul Alinsky, is seeking to silence Right Wing pundits in order "to transform society … and create a more just world." The just society will emerge when anti-socialist discourse is eliminated.

In the political debate about man-made global warming, free speech is constantly threatened. Based on the oft-repeated "truth" that "the science is settled," and that we should proceed post haste to spend $15-20 trillion to implement policies based on such solid scientific "fact," the leading power-brokers, many of them worshipers of Goddess Nature, regularly deny free speech to those in the opposite camp. The skeptics are trashed as "deniers" (as in "holocaust deniers"), and some have been denied access to the climate conferences in Copenhagen (2009) and Cancun (2010), where the proceedings in the opening ceremony last December were dedicated to the Mayan goddess Ixchel.

Opponents of the reigning climate-change ideology are not a miniscule idiot fringe. In fact, the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine collected the signatures of 31,000 scientists opposed to global warming alarmism. However, speech is only free for the Gnostic warmers who know that warming climate change is inevitable and, by this, intend to control the world. Actually, since 1990, $50 billion of government money has been spent on proving man-made global-warming, while only $19 million was granted to opposing research. This is a serious case of muzzling the opposition. According to James Hanson, head of NASA, and close associate of Al Gore, democracy is our problem: "… compared to China, we are 'the barbarians' with a 'democracy' that now rules the roost, making it impossible to legislate effectively on climate change."

… This is not unlike the time of the apostle Paul, who, locked up for his politically incorrect speech by the pagan Roman Empire, courageously asked his fellow believers: "Pray for me that I may have boldness to speak what I must speak."

May this prayer and boldness be ours, especially since the ultimate goal of One-ism, in all its forms, is to silence the Gospel. Christian speech is not hate speech, it is love speech. We pronounce the name and the truth of Jesus, who is the Word, full of truth and grace. Our speech is not optional. Remember what Jesus told his disciples:

So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 10:32)

No matter what the world says and no matter what consequences await us, we must speak the name and truth of Jesus for all to hear.

[This article first appeared in the February 10, 2011, issue of InsideOut, the online journal of truthXchange, and is used by permission.]

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Recent Significant Developments

Science & Ecology

On the House Vote to Defund the IPCC (Roy Spencer; DrRoySpencer.com)
Global warming alarmists "have no one but themselves to blame for" the vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to defund the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says climatologist Dr. Roy W. Spencer. He explains that the IPCC is not and never has been a scientific body; it's been a political body and the tool of those already intent on reducing carbon dioxide emissions, alleged man-made global warming being only the handy excuse.

Environmentalism (Coral Ridge Ministries) (Video)
Short documentary reveals the anti-Christian worldview at the root of the radical environmentalism that is itself at the root of the EPA’s war on carbon dioxide.

Economics & Energy

Political Gumption and Gasoline Prices (Marita Noon; Energy Tribune)
“Chaos in the Middle East and the subsequent spike in prices at the pump spotlight the failure of long-term American energy policy. Reminiscent of the seventies, we are, once again, held captive by others’ instability.”

"Sustainability": Some Free Market Reflections (Marlo Lewis; MasterResource)
“The following reflections make three main points: (1) A “sustainable” energy system, as that term is commonly used, will likely not materialize in our lifetimes; (2) except for heavily-subsidized wind, solar, and biofuel energy, the current, largely fossil fuel-based energy system is already sustainable; and (3) the “sustainable energy” agenda imperils the improving state of the world and, therefore, is politically unsustainable.” A better brief, comprehensive refutation of fears of human and ecological catastrophe driven by energy use—including fossil fuel use—would be hard to imagine.—ECB

Listening to the Shale Revolution (Holman Jenkins; The Wall Street Journal)
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Religion & Ethics

How Biofuels Contribute to the Food Crisis (Tim Searchinger; The Washington Post)
Biofuels from food sources are causing food prices to rise, which is causing food shortages and world hunger.

Law, Regulation, & Litigation

Bills Now in Congress to Stop EPA's All-Pain, No-Gain Climate Rules (Dana Joel Gattuso; The Washington Examiner)
"Republicans and Democrats alike are eager to rein in the EPA. We can only hope this sense of urgency is put to practice to stop the Obama Administration from legislating by rulemaking -- permanently."

Politics & Debate

Enviro Poll: Global Warming Overblown (Paul Chesser; The American Spectator)
In a survey conducted for Colorado College's State of the Rockies project -- one in which most questions were designed to produce environmentalism-friendly results (of the "Do you favor clean air?" "Do you favor clean water?" nature) -- most respondents in five Mountain states ranked global warming as a low priority and overblown as a problem. Asked to identify the top two or three most important environmental problems today, only 4 percent cited global warming and 1 percent mentioned climate change (7 percent said the federal government was one of the most important environmental problems!). …

Does a Huge Lapse in Mainstream Media Reporting Allow the Global Warming Crisis to Stay Alive (RedState)
Heard the one about big corporations paying off global warming skeptics? Check out the facts.

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