Next Chairman of House Energy Committee believes global warming will turn out ok because God promised to go easy on us

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A Republican congressman hoping to chair the powerful House Energy Committee refers to the Bible and God on the issue of global warming.

Representative John Shimkus insists we shouldn't concerned about the planet being destroyed because God promised Noah it wouldn't happen again after the great flood.

Speaking before a House Energy Subcommittee on Energy and Environment hearing in March, 2009, Shimkus quoted Chapter 8, Verse 22 of the Book of Genesis.

He said: 'As long as the earth endures, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never cease.'

The Illinois Republican continued: 'I believe that is the infallible word of God, and that's the way it is going to be for his creation.

'The earth will end only when God declares its time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1328366/John-Shimkus-Global-warming-wont-destroy-planet-God-promised-Noah.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

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[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

God is Good!

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God is Good!

[one...two...tree 2,762]

God also provided mana from heaven, so Mr. Shimkus can quit working as God will provide.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

meh, if Global Warming kills people. Chuck Norris will kill Global Warming.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

That's the new Congress? We're so fcuked.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

That's the new Congress? We're so fcuked.

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Representative John Shimkus insists we shouldn't concerned about the planet being destroyed because God promised Noah it wouldn't happen again after the great flood.

He's a total loon.

Same guy who compared the war in Iraq to a baseball game between the Cardinals/Cubs.

And the same guy who thinks CO2 is "plant food" so curbing emissions is going to kill forests :blink:

[BishopM 114]

..ya...this is bit whacky the way he has put it

However, I do agree with what I think is his point: IF/WHEN the world does end, it won't be because of man.

Blessings - MK

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

He's a total loon.

Same guy who compared the war in Iraq to a baseball game between the Cardinals/Cubs.

And the same guy who thinks CO2 is "plant food" so curbing emissions is going to kill forests :blink:

CO₂ is plant food. So is H₂0. Just ask any modern pot grower.

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[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

..ya...this is bit whacky the way he has put it

However, I do agree with what I think is his point: IF/WHEN the world does end, it won't be because of man.

Blessings - MK

Funny how folks will rely on science, to give them answers to things that the average man can't see, hear, or feel, yet will scoff at religion. Different models, same Universe.

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[one...two...tree 2,762]

IF/WHEN the world does end, it won't be because of man.

I've never heard anyone saying that the planet earth will go up in smoke because of humans. No, the earth will go on, with or without us. Life as we know it, and life as we used to know it, will change and has changed to do humankind.

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However, I do agree with what I think is his point: IF/WHEN the world does end, it won't be because of man.

The world will most certainly end, there's positively zero doubt about that. You're right it won't be because of man, because the species ** sapiens will surely long since have ceased to exist in the ~5 billion years that our world will end.

The sun's fuel will burn out and our solar system will cease to be. Well before that happens, the sun will have swelled to a red giant and incinerated this little rock in its path.

The Sun does not have enough mass to explode as a supernova. Instead, in about 5 billion years, it will enter a red giant phase, its outer layers expanding as the hydrogen fuel in the core is consumed and the core contracts and heats up. Helium fusion will begin when the core temperature reaches around 100 million K and will produce carbon, entering the asymptotic giant branch phase.

Earth's fate is precarious. As a red giant, the Sun will have a maximum radius beyond the Earth's current orbit, 1 AU (1.5×1011 m), 250 times the present radius of the Sun.[91] However, by the time it is an asymptotic giant branch star, the Sun will have lost roughly 30% of its present mass due to a stellar wind, so the orbits of the planets will move outward. If it were only for this, Earth would probably be spared, but new research suggests that Earth will be swallowed by the Sun owing to tidal interactions.[91] Even if Earth would escape incineration in the Sun, still all its water will be boiled away and most of its atmosphere would escape into space. Even during its current life in the main sequence, the Sun is gradually becoming more luminous (about 10% every 1 billion years), and its surface temperature is slowly rising. The Sun used to be fainter in the past, which is possibly the reason life on Earth has only existed for about 1 billion years on land. The increase in solar temperatures is such that in about another billion years the surface of the Earth will likely become too hot for liquid water to exist, ending all terrestrial life

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scandal beat me to it.

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scandal beat me to it.