Producer's Desk — environment

Thanks to everyone who took the time to write Richard Land! Here are a few excerpts of your responses to Saturday’s broadcast:

Responses edited for brevity.

Steven from Missouri: “Dearest Richard, I am a disabled Veteran and I was on my way home last tonight from visiting my wife who is in the hospital for lung issues. I fully agree with your comments to the caller named Heather. She hasn’t a clue. War is not a pretty thing!! In fact if you ask anyone what they would prefer when it comes to war they in their sane minds would try to avoid it at any costs and as a last resort. I get a little tired of these armchair warriors… In my opinion we should’ve gone in and conquered Iraq… because I don’t believe that any Americans blood spilled on foreign soil should get a return on their investment (their lives). Thank you Richard I really do appreciate your ministry.”

Bruce from Alberta, Canada: I was going to phone in to your show today, May 31, and say that not all Canadians are liberals. Many, especially in the prairie provinces, are conservative. Canada has a Conservative government and Alberta has had provincial Conservative governments since 1971. I’d like all of America to know that we aren’t all a bunch of pinko nut-cases up here. I listen to your show because we have nothing like it here.

Ann: All is excellent but if you don’t have time for all of it, move slider in to 27:17 for Heather’s question. One of the best explanations for war that I have heard. Sadam killed 330,000 of his people, rape rooms, children’s prisons, son delivered a woman in pieces to her family…

• Obama’s Abortion Extremism - Gerson

  “…But Obama’s record on abortion is extreme. He opposed the ban on partial-birth abortion — a practice a fellow Democrat, the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once called “too close to infanticide.” Obama strongly criticized the Supreme Court decision upholding the partial-birth ban. In the Illinois state Senate, he opposed a bill similar to the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which prevents the killing of infants mistakenly left alive by abortion…”

• Pro-choice’s guinea pigs - National Post

  “According to obstetrician Barbara Luke’s classic Every Pregnant Woman’s Guide to Preventing Premature Birth, “If you have had one or more induced abortions, your risk of prematurity with this pregnancy increases about 30%.” After two, a woman’s chance of an XPB doubles. A woman who has had four or more abortions runs nine times the risk of XPB, an increase of 800%.

  Studies of black American women throw the problem into bold relief. Black American women, although only 12% of the American population, undergo 35.2% of all abortions. In 1987 it was reported in The New England Journal of Medicine that black American women with two previous abortions had a 91% higher relative risk of a subsequent pre-term birth.”

• Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate - Heartland

  “The 1990 IPCC Summary completely ignored satellite data, since they showed no warming. The 1995 IPCC report was notorious for the significant alterations made to the text after it was approved by the scientists – in order to convey the impression of a human influence. The 2001 IPCC report claimed the twentieth century showed ‘unusual warming’ based on the now-discredited hockey-stick graph. The latest IPCC report, published in 2007, completely devaluates the climate contributions from changes in solar activity, which are likely to dominate any human influence…”

  • (Thanks to Cornwall Alliance for bringing this to our attention.)

The folks at Cornwall chime in on the Southern Baptist global warming hubbub.

Dr. Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, issued the following statement today regarding the recently released “Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change…” Read the complete statement at ERLC.com

Some highlighted items from our friends at The Cornwall Alliance. Subscribe to their newsletter.

• Four Sources Say “Globally Cooler” in the Past Twelve Months - Watts Up With That?
• Forget Global Warming—Welcome to the New Ice Age - Canada’s National Post
• Humpty Dumpty Policies - Townhall.com
• Die for Gaia, Save the Planet? - The Register, February 20, 2008
• Global Warming Debate Website - ClimateDebateDaily.com

This is a mere smidgen of the nuggets that the Cornwall Alliance newsletter highlights. Don’t miss out on this timely information and sign up for the Alliance’s newsletter here.

I joined a panel discussion with Jim Wallis of Sojourners, Joel Hunter of Northland Church, Laura Olson of Clemson U. and host Warren Olney on this To the Point radio broadcast on NPR.