The Demise: The ICPP Weighs In (Group Post 2)

Global warming is dead.

The internet has been buzzing with blogs and activists outraged and shocked at recent confessions of fraud and faulty data in respect to much of the evidence of the global warming

theory. IPCC, tasked to make an intensive report on global climate has several issues with false data and reports from sources that cannot be considered reputable. A magnificent example showed up in The Sunday Times: one of the shock value claims that global warming will cause a 40% wipe-out of the Amazon Rain Forest was proven to be from an untrustworthy source, a handfull of green campaigners with little scientific experience. If that is not enough, the Telegraph takes a chunk out of the claims of global warming's effect on crop production in Africa, which not only was proven to be from a questionable source, also has proved to be false. Even claims of the Arctic ice melting has been debunked. Dr. John Lott made some calculations based off of numbers from the World Meteorological Association on his blog, and concluded that we actually have more ice coverage.

As of the state of the union when reports had already begun to surface, President Obama still insists that Global Warming is real. The problem is it is not. A better cleaner world is something we all aspire to, but we are not going to get there if we try to press onward though false claims. Simply rushing due to fear inspired by global warming and its hellish images such as water rising and swallowing states whole and films such as The Day After Tomorrow will simply hurt our country in its present state and tire the people. The people may be sheep, but eventually even sheep learn that a brand is hot and to distrust those who wield it.

Booker, Christopher. “African crops yield another catastrophe for the IPCC .” Telegraph. The Telegraph, 13 Feb. 2010. Web. 1 Mar. 2010. <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/‌comment/‌columnists/‌christopherbooker/‌7231386/‌African-crops-yield-another-catastrophe-for-the-IPCC.html>.

Leake, Jonathan. “The UN climate panel and the rainforest claim.” The Sunday Times 31 Jan. 2010: n. pag. Web. 1 Mar. 2010. <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/‌tol/‌news/‌environment/‌article7009705.ece>.

Lott, John. “Arctic Sea Ice since 2007 .” johnrlott.blogspot.com. N.p., 12 Dec. 2009. Web. 1 Mar. 2010. <http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/‌2009/‌12/‌arctic-sea-ice-since-2007.html>.

Global Warming (Group Post 1)

When people think of Democrat Al Gore (image right), they do not think about his defeat in the 2004 election, but rather of his work to stop man-made global warming. It is a major issue in the Democratic Party to fight global warming, however this is an issue that President Obama should lean toward the Republican point-of-view.

Although out environment is important, we should not continue regulation of companies to require compliance with additional emissions standards, especially since we are currently going through a recession. According the the New York Times, the recession has slowed clean electricity growth. The Washington Post notes that despite the political will is there to create more wind powered electricity solutions, the recession is holding it back. My point in these examples is simply that there is a time and place for everything, and this is not the time to further try to strain our nations businesses.

It is common knowledge that when you try to add regulations to a business or industry, you will hurt that business in the short term even if it is beneficial or even profitable in the long run. A doctor would not give a person an immunization when they are already sick, and when the economy is sick, it should be given time to recover before you try to fix an unrelated non-immediate issue.

Behr, Peter. “Recession Slows Electricity Demand and Renewable Energy Growth, NERC Finds .” The New York Times 29 Oct. 2009: n. pag. Web. 1 Mar. 2010. <http://www.nytimes.com/‌cwire/‌2009/‌10/‌29/‌29climatewire-recession-slows-electricity-demand-and-renew-37906.html>.

Mayo Clinic staff. “Vaccines for adults.” MayoClinic.com. N.p., 22 May 2009. Web. 1 Mar. 2010.<http://www.mayoclinic.com/‌health/‌vaccines/‌ID00016>.

Starkey, Jonathan. “Wind Projects at a Standstill.” The Washington Post. The Washington Post, 19 June 2009. Web. 1 Mar. 2010. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/‌wp-dyn/‌content/‌article/‌2009/‌07/‌11/‌AR2009071100148.html>.

Nope, its still NOT Adultery

This is a response to a post promoting the idea that pornography is adultery.

In this post, the author states that "Pornography is known to cause divorces among many married couples". Although I agree that sometimes pornography is used as a means of divorce, it does not necessarily mean that the divorce is because of pornography usage. Often pornography is included in addition to the main reason for the divorce to make the now ex-husband appear more disgusting to a jury or judge.

The problem is, a man's "lust for another female" is not a cut and simple concept. A man may think of a woman lustfully in many situations caused by many reasons. What makes the "lust for another female" adulterous in nature is simply the difference between claiming something and doing something. Thinking about a person in a sexual manner is not adulterous, acting on it by doing such things as getting a lap dance or something in a closer relationship is. In a simple imaginative relationship, pornography is not adulterous.

Pornography is NOT adultery

Let's face it, we know pornography is out there and that people watch/use it. If it were not so, then this would not be over a 2.6 billion dollar industry (Forbes). I concede that watching porn may not be morally just, however I disagree with the belief that pornography can be a form of adultery.

Adultery as defined by Merriam-Webster can be strictly defined as "voluntary sexual intercourse between a married man and someone other than his wife or between a married woman and someone other than her husband." Of course, this definition is extremely rigid in form and excludes many things consistent with society's definition. For example, a married man paying a stripper to give him a lap dance would be considered adulterous in nature. Adultery is after all a word that branches from moral beliefs and therefor must be defined from it. Porn, in being indeterminate, not targeted for one person but for mass consumption is not adulterous. The difference in a stripper giving a lap dance and a person sitting at a table in a strip bar is simply that in one situation an actual two way relationship or action is formed, while simple lust is simply a form of hormonal attraction. In addition, the article that prompted this post, The Atlantic, made an excellent point. Porn, unlike adulterous scenarios, can be considered a form of fiction. It is a form of imagination or fantastical adventure/escapade.

Emphasized Pope

Unfortunately, I do not remember what this was supposed to be. I put this as a placeholder before the first blog entry and still to date do know what it is for....

Intro to this blog

This blog has been created as a mandetory requirement for RHET 1302