Evolution? How?

Gomer-like.

Gomer can refer to several things:

Gomer, eldest son of Japheth, mentioned in the Old Testament Books of Genesis and Ezekiel; often equated with the Cimmerians (Gimirru), and identified by Flavius Josephus with the Galatians(see also Gomerian).
Gomer also appears as the name of the adulterous wife of Hosea, a prophet within the Hebrew Bible's Book of Hosea.
Gomer, a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in France
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. was a spinoff TV show of the late 1960s. Its title character, Gomer Pyle, was based on the character from The Andy Griffith Show.
GOMER is an acronym for Get Out Of My Emergency Room, applied by American physicians to anyone coming in for a fraudulent or trivial reason. This phrase is believed to have been coined by Samuel Shem in his 1978 classic "The House of God"
Gomer is a Real Radio character, a TV and Movie actor. Heard every Saturday night from 7PM-10PM on SBK Live, WTKS-FM 104.1 sbk.wtks.com . Originally getting his start from The Shannon Burke Show, he has gone on to Co-Star in a movie Some Diamonds a Dog and some Dudes.
Gomer Press is the name of Wales' largest independent publisher.
Gomer is also a name adopted by fans of the music group Third Day.
Gomer can also be used as an insult, meaning a dumb person.

RexRed wrote:

It should not be an oxymoron but science is more a religion today than a pure science.

No it's not.

RexRed wrote:

They play God with peoples bodies yet are oblivious to life (soul) and the spirit.

Oh brother, that's exactly why it's not a religion. Sheesh.

Expert Panel Concludes Earth's Temperature Warmest in 400 Years

By J.R. Pegg

WASHINGTON, DC, June 22, 2006 (ENS) - The Earth is hotter today than it has been in four centuries and likely warmer than it has been in the past 1,000 years, according to a review of surface temperature research released Thursday by the U.S. National Academies of Science.

The 155 page report provides additional evidence that "human activities are responsible for much of the warming," the authors said.

The study, written by a panel of 12 climate experts, assesses the state of scientific efforts to reconstruct surface temperature records for the Earth over approximately the last 2,000 years.

Widespread reliable instrument records of global temperatures are available only for the last 150 years, leaving scientists to estimate past climatic conditions by analyzing proxy evidence from sources such as tree rings, corals, ocean and lake sediments, cave deposits, ice cores, boreholes, and glaciers.

Committee chair Gerald North said the panel's review of instrument and proxy data affords "a high level of confidence that global mean surface temperature was higher during the last few decades of the 20th century than during any comparable period during the preceding four centuries."

"This statement is justified by the consistency of the evidence from a wide variety of geographically diverse proxies," said North, a geosciences professor at the University of Texas A&M.

The committee said average surface temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere rose about one degree Fahrenheit (0.6 degrees Celsius) during the 20th century.

The report was requested last year by House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert, a New York Republican, in a bid to silence global warming skeptics critical of a surface temperature reconstruction widely known as the "hockey stick" study.

Published in 1998 by climate scientists Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley and Malcolm Hughes, the study suggested average surface temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere during the late 20th century were higher than at any time in the past 1,000 years.

The upward curve of a graph illustrating the research indicates that temperatures were relatively flat from A.D. 1000 to 1900 before sharply rising after 1900 - the chart resembles a hockey stick.

The graph appeared in the 2001 report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and emerged as oft-cited evidence that human greenhouse gas emissions are driving an increase in global temperatures.

Some scientists questioned the statistical methods used by the researchers and the findings of the study. Climate skeptics have latched onto this criticism and repeatedly attacked the study as flawed in a bid to cast doubt on humanity's contribution to climate change.

Last June, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton, a Texas Republican, attempted to launch a probe into the background of the authors - a move that drew sharp criticism from Boehlert and several scientific organizations worldwide.

The controversy prompted Congressman Bohlert to ask the National Academies, an independent organization chartered by Congress to advise the government on scientific matters, to review the study as well as other research on surface temperatures.

North said the panel largely endorsed the findings of the hockey stick study.

The conclusions of the study have "subsequently been supported by an array of evidence," including large-scale surface temperature reconstructions and pronounced changes in proxy indicators, North said.

Some of these changes, such as melting on icecaps and the retreat of glaciers around the world, "appear to be unprecedented during at least the last 2,000 years," North told reporters at a briefing in Washington, DC.

The panel said it had less confidence that warming was unprecedented over the last thousand years because of a lack of precisely dated proxy evidence for temperatures prior to 1600, in particular in the Southern Hemisphere.

"The picture is much murkier before 1600 and considerably murkier when you go further back in time," said committee member Kurt Cuffey, a geography professor at the University of California, Berkeley. "We start losing sources of information … and start relying more and more on data from fewer and fewer geographic locations."

The study by Mann and his colleagues also concluded that the 1990s were the warmest decade, and 1998 the warmest year in 1,000 years - the panel said larger uncertainties in temperature reconstructions for decades and individual years precluded it from outright support of those conclusions.

Questions about the statistical methods used by the authors of the hockey stick study should not cast doubt on its primary conclusions, said committee member Peter Bloomfield, a statistics professor at North Carolina State University.

"All of the statistical choices made were reasonable at the time," Bloomfield said. "I saw nothing that spoke to me of any manipulation … it was an honest attempt to construct a data analysis."

The panel said its review of other research gave it "very little confidence" in statements about average global surface temperatures prior to A.D. 900 because the proxy data for that time frame are sparse.

The panel stressed that global temperature records are only one piece of the global climate picture and not the primary evidence of climate change.

"Human activities are increasing the concentrations of certain greenhouse gases and these gases inevitably cause warming," Cuffey said. "That is not up for debate."

Boehlert praised the work of the committee and said it "shows the value of Congress handling scientific disputes by asking scientists to give us guidance."

Scientists need to do more work to develop a better sense of what global temperatures were prior to 1600, Boehlert said, and "Congress ought to let them go about that work without political interference."

Wait, Set, you missed the best part, it's Jim (all my nuts are in the hands of the Oklahoma oil companies) Inhofe that NewsMax is quoting about global warming. The water from the melted icecaps could be up around the Senator's chest and, unless the oil pumpers lobby had given him permission to say otherwise, he would continue to claim that it must be just a passing shower.

Note that he is quoting from the report's summary. Betcha a quarter he hasn't read the whole thing.

Joe(Read all this?? I'm late for church.)Nation

Hey...maybe it is for the best. The universe may become safer if the homo sapiens group and this particular rock annihilates itself before becoming a danger to the greater universe.

Klaatu barada nikto ! ! !

Setanta wrote:

Klaatu barada nikto ! ! !

On another thread, Lightwizard talked about working on the tech crew for this film. (Right, LW?)