Interesting stats brother Greg,i sure do so often wish that i could be as self assured, or as scientifically or politically convinced of the reasons for the events that have transpired thus far in this decade ... but alas i can't ... i was listening to this interview with: James Howard KunstlerAuthor of: The Long Emergency Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century http://www.netcastdaily.com/broadcast/fsn2005-1001-2.mp3Kunstler is an admittedly unsaved (he says non-religious) man who while commenting on the economicdisaster he sees coming toward America (and the globe) actually says that he sees a massive religious revival coming, particularly in America ... Why? ... Because, as he so rightly points out, nothing will get us Americans on our knees and faces like the toppling of our economy, and our having to rescind on our overblown materialistic life-styles ... Funny to me that an unsaved man can see this, while so many saints i know can't ... i see divine manipulation in these events, which certainly places me as "odd man out" with just about all my peers (saved or un-saved) ... i've complained to our Lord about this gnawing sensation in my gut, and have often asked Him to please remove it if it's not of Him, because i just can't seem to get rid of it ... i see Mene, Mene, Tekel and Parsin on the wall ... Perhaps i am to "Old Testament" as i'm so often told, but in the meanwhile i've told God that if no one else believes that He's speaking to us in the whirlwind i most certainly do, and so have diligently sought Him to please bless my hearing to the ability/facility of being benevolent patriarch to both my natural, and church family, in the trying times i believe He's given me the spiritual sight to see coming ...Well let me stop rambling here ... In tune with your post some others might find this most factual, scentific discussion (mp3) interesting ... Is Global Warming Just Hot Air? withDr. Robert C. Balling, Jr., Alan Caruba, & Evelyn Garrishttp://www.netcastdaily.com/broadcast/fsn2005-1001-4.mp3PS - An interesting point in this discussion that i'd not heard of before is that our Sun has beenextremely active lately with spots and flares, and is said to be becoming hotter, which these scientist say is most likely to be increasing the temperature of the Earth ... If that's the case ... what could be causing that? ... Hmmmmm.