Looks Like Global Warming beat the Rapture

[G_j]

Should have tried to fix things while there was chance.
Never good to put all your eggs in one basket.
Looks like rapture-ready folks will have to suffer with the rest of us.

[barbaraann]

1. Who picked pink for the hottest color?

Is that so we can't tell that our country is being cooked? Do they want it to look like you can eat cotton candy in the hottest areas or what?

[bvar22]

23. The PINK is because this is an "overlay" of a map

of the areas with the highest incidence of CLOSET HOMOSEXUALITY....."not that there is anything wrong with it".

[Lorien]

2. I've been saying the same for years

it's the reason that I never had children. I know too many scientists working in the field of climate study to have any illusions about the survival of future generations. Our ability to grow food will decline sharply in the coming years. Forests and ocean ecosystems will (and are) failing. Sadly, it's not a matter of "if" anymore, it's only a matter of "how soon"?

The war, the economy, terrorism-all will seem small by comparison. :-(

[Delphinus]

16. I know, Loien.

I know. If only we had listened. :-(

[G_j]

20. absolutely

the climate will trump it all

[WCGreen]

21. Yea, that's why we didn't have any kids either.....

[Ladyhawk]

33. I didn't have kids for a lot of reasons.

Sometimes I think it's not too late to change my mind, but when I see the direction of things, I feel relieved that I don't have a little one who will suffer. I already worry enough about my nephew. I don't know what kind of life he'll lead and it scares me.

[liberaliraqvet26]

3. This is really crazy...

i've lived in South Florida for years and haven't seen heat like this (except the Iraqi desert) I wonder if they mention this at the pulpit on sunday.

[acmavm]

4. I agree, as I set her smack dab in the pink 102 zone. Global warming

is based on intelligence and concrete evidence (such as half the ice melting on both poles).

The Rapture is superstition based, made up generally by crackpots throughout history who's end intent was manipulation of the masses.

I believe in God, I am a Christian. But nothing I've ever read or seen has led me to believe that I don't have an obligation to use the intellect that was given to me to use instead of taking the lazy and easy way out (i.e. letting some damn crazy tell me it's all a useless struggle because God wants it 'that/this' way). If you want to talk about hard work, that's exactly what I think God expects from us. To safeguard his planet, to develop to our fullest potential as human beings, to honestly understand that yes we are out brothers keeper, and that we need to quit blaming him for all the shit us human beings have been and are doing in his name.

[BeHereNow]

5. You might want to visit this thread-

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4171434&mesg_id=4171434
do some research on the Kogi tribe-
They have said the same from the beginning of time.
As a matter of fact, they consider themselves the keepers
of the planet. and now we are trying to kill them.
BHN

[G_j]

6. I second that n/t

[BeHereNow]

7. Thanks for the second G_J

BHN

[WCGreen]

22. It's all about thought control...

this whole rapture thing....

Be good the end is near while the one's spouting tis shit are out screwing and cheating and doing what ever they can to pleasure themselves.......

[sleipnir]

8. Redistribution of heat.

That's what you're seeing. A distribution from the Tropics. That's also why the Hurricane season is off to a healthy start. There's a lot of heat that needs to be distributed down there.

[wli]

9. interesting how they don't color in Canada

The temperatures have gone way up there, and they obviously like keeping that obfuscated.

[Karenina]

10. Kick!

:kick:

[doubleplusgood]

11. but Fundies DO care about global warming

...but, only in terms of worrying about increasing Hellfire & Damnation

[Deja Q]

12. We've had heat waves before... and very cold winters too! "Global warming

is more about the disruption of our ecosystem's weather patterns and not the actual planet heating up like your tea kettle on a stove."

Hell, I recall one day on DU that had one person blabbing about "global warming" with another at the same time drooling over "global cooling" in the same serious light. :crazy:

Our synthetic pollution has caused damage to the planet. In the form of random weather patterns. But the whole earth isn't frying. Indeed, your own chart shows areas just south of the pretty pink 102 being as cool as 90 (southern Texas).

It's just a heat wave.

Doesn't mean the poles aren't melting, but that's another story.

[G_j]

15. the post is fairly tongue in cheek, but Climate Change

would be the correct description IMO,
Certainly not 'just' another heat wave, 200 heat records have been broken this week, similar situation in Europe last year.

[leesa]

13. They LOVE to suffer....validates their existance, I guess. Problem is

they want everyone else to suffer with them! Actually, they would rationalize any global warming pattern as End Times prediction fodder.

[undeterred]

14. What if Jesus decides not to come back because its TOO warm?

too late :evilgrin:

[seabeyond]

17. or it could just be summer. was bitchen about it last nite, and hubby

said, hey to make you feel better, las vegas 115. didnt make me feel better. last summer was the oddest, didnt even get hot until aug, and then just a week. then not hot until sept. he didnt believe me so we went back and checked. coolest summer i had ever had was last summer. that summer was odd. this summer of hot, on par with always. have had over 100 for days in a row in the past

[kid a]

32. where are you sea?

[seabeyond]

34. amarillo, tx. panhandle of texas n/t

[Ripley]

18. And the Giant Red Cloud full of Locusts is coming...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/23/dust.storm.ap/index.html

Massive dust cloud heads to U.S.

Saturday, July 23, 2005; Posted: 7:26 p.m. EDT (23:26 GMT)

MIAMI, Florida (AP) -- An enormous, hazy cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert is blowing toward the southern United States, but meteorologists do not expect much effect beyond colorful sunsets.

The leading edge of the cloud -- nearly the size of the continental United States -- should move across Florida sometime from Monday through Wednesday.

~~~

Nothing to see here, move along.

[brooklynite]

19. Gives new meaning to the term "Red States"...

[BrklynLiberal]

24. Plankton Counts Collapsing, Warming Sign All Along Pacific Coast

This is NOT good news!!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x27364

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. No it is not

well at lest the birds will have a nice tropical paradizse to flee to

Three parrots they are my kids... we were talking about it the humidity in San diego is insante, I expect hurricanes here in the next ten years

[BrklynLiberal]

27. We are making this planet inhabitable for ourselves....and our

descendents. All that will be left will be cockroaches and viruses.

[nadinbrzezinski]

28. Nah I fear the planet will recover,

now this may be a good die off the size of the dinosaurs

[BrklynLiberal]

29. Just kill off the homo sapiens?

[kliljedahl]

26. "Looks like rapture-ready folks will have to suffer with the rest of us"?

Don't they know it's already happened? Boy, are they in for a surprise!


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[NAO]

30. RaptureReady.com Link. May I suggest a post-tribulation rapture?

Rapture Ready
http://www.raptureready.com/

See esp. the "Rapture Index", a weekly collation of news and prophecy, scientifically (!?) quantified into a numerical index of the probability of the Rapture.

http://www.raptureready.com/rap2.html

Finally, I suggest consideration of a heretical notion I learned in my youth as a Fundamentalist Christian. There are some heretics (may God burn their souls in eternal hellfire, amen) who believe that the Rapture will happen AFTER the Tribulation period. In this scenario, Christians will have to endure the Tribulation, plagues, locusts, rivers of blood, the Antichrist, the Mark of the Beast, the whole ball of God's wrath. No wonder it is not a popular doctrine.

[G_j]

31. unfortunately

they are the ones contributing to the horrors or tribulations.
Dear God (or whoever, he he ), please take 'em already!

[Warren DeMontague]

35. "Needs More Study!" *Squack!* "Needs More Study!" *Squack!*

Oh, and can you BELIEVE how expensive gas is? My word, why it's getting so I don't even enjoy filling up my Hummer anymore!

[4_TN_TITANS]

36. Normal summer for Tennessee....

This might be our 3rd year in a row to not break 100 degrees. 100 degree July and Aug days were once the norm. I have no doubts about the validity of global warming, but we are seeing more 'strange' weather patterns versus raw heat.

It used to be a rule that you could stop mowing grass by the end of July because it would be so dry and dead that it wouldn't grow. For three years now, there's been so much summer rain that everything is green all the way through. Last year, we had so much rain it was actually hurting summer crops like tobacco and corn.

It's no hotter than usual, but I've been around long enough to see different weather patterns beginning to develop.