Monthly Archives: July 2010

The Choice: Joyful Family

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The Very Ordianry Situation

It was bed time and I was tired, but when I got home my husband and children were out on the trampoline having a popsicle.  The first thought I had was to run out there with my star laser and pillow for a star party and maybe even sleep out.  My second thought was something like, “I can’t believe Spencer is keeping the children out so late and giving them sugar before bed.  I better get them in here.” 

My mind started comparing thought number one to thought number two to try to make a decision on what to do. Continue reading →

Stephen McIntyre and Global Warming Believer’s Ethics

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In my previous posts I explained how I started to research Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) claims, how I found a lot of very bad arguments amongst AGW Deniers, and how I also found some, but very few, AGW Denier arguments with merit. In this post, I’m going to more directly attack the other side now by explaining some of the things AGW Believers do that are of questionable ethics. 

Now, as you can imagine, by this point in my search for the truth I was tearing my hair out with anger and frustration. I felt like I couldn’t trust either side at all and, worse, the conservative side that I was partial to was often using arguments that made them look not only unethical but also incompetent. Was my only choice between tweedledum (republicans) and tweedledee (democrats.)!? Continue reading →

Some updated news on climate issues

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M* has been a source of a lot of interesting discussions lately on climate change, global warming, global cooling, etc. The ever intrepid Bruce Nielson has done a great job looking into the issue from a fresh perspective, and I believe his search — and his discoveries — will continue.

In the meantime, this may be as good a moment as any to look at some recent developments in the world of climate research. Why are we doing this on a Mormon blog? We could say it has to do with being good stewards of the Earth, but the reality is that (some of us) are just interested in the subject.

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