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Article by: Jenny

A poll released today by Rasmussen Reports states that 44% of Americans do not believe in human-caused global warming, compared to only 41% who do. This is a sea change from last April, when the numbers were 34% to 47%, respectively.

In a national poll of 1,000 likely voters conducted from January 15-16, with a margin of error +/- 3 percentage points, Rasmussen asked, "Is Global Warming caused primarily by human activity or by long term planetary trends?"

41%: Human activity
44%: Long-term planetary trends
7%: Other reason
9%: Not sure

Just as recently as April of 2007, less than 9 months ago, Rasmussen asked the same question: "Is Global Warming caused primarily by human activity or by long term planetary trends?"

During that survey of 1,000 likely voters, also with a 3% margin of error, the response was different.

47%: Human activity
34%: Long-term planetary trends
8%: Other reason
11%: Not sure

We're not sure what has led to this outbreak of sanity in the United States.

A decline in Al Gore's cult of personality, as members are drawn into Obamaism?

American excellence in science education?

The success of the Bush Administration's Frank Luntz-generated "Climate Change, not Global Warming" initiative?

The memo, by the leading Republican consultant Frank Luntz, concedes the party has "lost the environmental communications battle" and urges its politicians to encourage the public in the view that there is no scientific consensus on the dangers of greenhouse gases.

"The scientific debate is closing [against us] but not yet closed. There is still a window of opportunity to challenge the science," Mr Luntz writes in the memo, obtained by the Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based campaigning organisation.

"Voters believe that there is no consensus about global warming within the scientific community. Should the public come to believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global warming will change accordingly.

"Therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate."

Yep, I'm thinking that'd be it.

Sure, Luntz finally gave in, after years of being browbeaten by enviromental extremists:

NARRATOR: Today, Frank Luntz says the advice he offered the administration on global warming was fair when he gave it. But, he's distanced himself from their policies since.

LUNTZ: It's now 2006. Now I think most people would conclude that there is global warming taking place, and that the behavior of humans are affecting the climate.

QUESTION: But the administration has continued to follow your advice. They're still questioning the science.

LUNTZ: That's up to the administration. I'm not the administration. What they want to do is their business. And it's nothing to do with what I write. And it's nothing to do with what I believe.

Video available here.

But President Cheney Bush and his Administration have stayed the course laid out for them, leaving the brainwashed Luntz in the lurch. The fruits of his labor are finally being reaped, as Americans turn from the "science-based" nonsense spewed by the charismatic -- some say hypnotic -- Al Gore and instead pay attention to reliable and unbiased sources of information, like WorldNetDaily, Rush Limbaugh, NewsMax, and Glenn Beck.

Thank Heaven for small favors! Now, if you'll pardon me, the Hummer is finished warming up in the driveway. I just love my remote car starter! The seats are toasty warm and the windshield defrosted in only 15 minutes, and now I can get to Starbucks!

Link: http://ncseweb.org/news/2009/01/antievolution-legislation-oklahoma-003647

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The state of Oklahoma is the first this year to consider defending the Lord against attacks by evilutionists. Read how!

"Anti-Evolution Legislation in Oklahoma!" screams the National Center for Science Education's website. The article goes on to describe the recently-introduced Senate Bill 320, the "Scientific Education and Academic Freedom Act":

SB 320 would, if enacted, require state and local educational authorities to "assist teachers to find more effective ways to present the science curriculum where it addresses scientific controversies" and permit teachers to "help students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories pertinent to the course being taught." The only topics specifically mentioned as controversial are "biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning."

This all seems logical. These are all subjects in which there is much controversy! Reliable sites all over the Internet provide debunking info for each area of research:

Evolution: http://www.bible.ca/tracks/debunked.htm

Chemical origins of life: http://www.godandscience.org/evolution/chemlife.html

Global warming: http://www.newsmax.com/metcalf/global_warming_hype/2008/12/15/161919.html

Human cloning: http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1757.cfm

As you can see, each of these fields has many unresolved issues. The State of Oklahoma wants only for teachers to be able to explore these issues with their students.

What does the National Center for Scientific Education want? Why, they think you should join forces with them and Oklahomans for Expeditious Science Indoctrination, who formed in response to "attempts in the Oklahoma State Textbook Committee in 1999 to diminish the teaching of evolution by the introduction of creationist textbook disclaimers to be inserted into any textbook used in public schools that discussed evolution. There have been bills introduced almost every year since 1999 for legislation that would allow teaching creationism in science courses; OESE has opposed all such attempts."

As one might expect, they'd rather your children pray to their god, Darwin, and spend eternity in God's Hell for their disbelief. Is that what you want?

If not, support SB 320! Write a letter to the editor! Write to your legislators! Support the ability of teachers to tell their students the Truth about Jesus, lest they all burn forever and ever!