“And how much is also due to things beyond man’s control and is cyclical, as history also records? ”

what “things beyond man’s control” are you referring to Debbie? For the last hundred years (coinciding with the industrialization of the world) the ave. world temperatures have been increasing, and these temperatures are beyond any previous ave. temps (with the exception of Esper 2002 study) estimated for over the last 1000 years.

NOAA has an overview and references you can look at here:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/paleolast.html

As a Christian, I am very offended by this supposedly humorous post. The Lord will not be mocked.

Bible-believing Christians know that grizzly bears are favored instruments of the Lord and would never be left off of the ark. The Bible clearly teaches us that our Lord sent female bears to kill 42 boys who made wise cracks about the prophet Elisha’s baldness.

I have read other posts on your blog, and it distresses me to see that as a professed Christian you would waste so much time and energy weeping over 5 dead sinful children, when our Lord killed more than 8 times as many in one fell swoop. I urge you to repent, bring yourself back under the authority of our Lord and Savior, and celebrate the deaths of sinful and disobedient children.

2 Kings 2:23-25

“He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.”

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On the other hand I once stayed in West Yellowstone and the people in the cabin next to me made the mistake of leaving food in their car. A grizzly did a good job on the car getting inside. And residents there regularly have problems with bears. But if you are going to live in close proximity to nature in its rawest, you have to learn how to cope. Heck, I’ve even had a buck, hopped up on its hormones of the fall rut, go after my pickup as I drove through the meadow out back of the house. It’s not just the carnivores you have to look out for sometimes.

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