Tag: climate change

I have always believed that weather is unpredictable. We can make our forecasts, but we never know for sure.

Our founding fathers cited “self-evident” truths in the Declaration of Independence. Truth has a strong list of supporters predating that Declaration by millennia. Hindu and Buddhist scriptures hold truth in high regard. Judaism, Christianity and Islam, beginning with the Ten Commandments, mandate truthfulness. As Jesus said, “…the truth will make you free.”

Global climate change is simple. Two things drive it: population, energy. All else links back to these two drivers.

The IPCC is reliable, not infallible, and therein lies a problem. Data-collection technologies and analytical techniques constantly change. (Think PC updates!) These changes exacerbate uncertainties inherent in climate-change research. IPCC reports include uncertainties. Climate-change denialists undermine IPCC reports by exploiting uncertainties.

This FāVS Religion News Roundup covers the Rev. Liv Larson transitioning from her pastor role at Salem Lutheran Church, the Salvation Army Food Bank receiving a 40,000 pound donation of food from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the third annual Tacos y Tequila Festival and new statewide climate change legislation for local governments.

Some might claim that in the Inland Northwest the nights are not hot enough and the air is not humid enough to create that real wrap-around Dog Day experience from which night and shade offer little respite.

July 17th marked the 204th birthday of Eunice Foote, the woman who, in 1856, first demonstrated warming effects of carbon on the atmosphere. You may never have heard of her, reports Smithsonian Magazine, because this suffragette-scientist was a woman. Her findings were initially ignored.