Re. your comment to Hydra:

I know just how you feel. I've slayed so many dragons on these threads...and they sure do vanish into thin air, sometimes never to be heard from again!

About your question re. T. Boone Pickens: I like to think that the good Mr. Pickens heard through the grapevine that I'm going around informing people that wind mills would cause "drag" and therefore impair the Earth's spin...and natural gas is just another ingredient that Earth needs right where it is, since it probably powers the round-the-clock movement of the tectonic plates.

With respect to your comment that oil is too deep from the surface to be affected by the daily Sun or by freezing atmospheric temps, I disagree.

Have you ever looked at a diagram of a scale cross-section of our planet? The crust is but a thin little layer -- not unlike the outermost layer of an onion. And while I'm the first to inform you all that petroleum reaches the core of Earth's interior through channels (where it acts as a barrier between the solid-metal inner core and the liquid-metal outer core), it is also sometimes very close to the surface -- so close, that it seeps out of the surface in some places, without it being extracted.

Further, I know about solar spots; I took astronomy. But interesting to...

KungFu: Sorry about the days' long delay in my reply. I had to deal with a couple of contretemps that came out of nowhere this week, which greatly interfered with my ability to sit down at a computer for a few hours.

Re. the nuclear tests that US and USSR conducted in "days of yore" (by that, I assume you mean the 1950's): If we could look up the precise days and times when the explosions occurred, we could then research the earthquakes that happened globally, hours or a day or so later. As for the nuclear bombs that the US dropped in 1944, in preparation for the Hiroshima blast, the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey experienced a major earthquake in that year, due to those bomb tests.

Re. my thesis: Well, friend,...

You write that my background in journalism "explains everything."

Friend, I couldn't agree with you more on the premise that the news media are pretty much useless and almost unfailingly serve as propaganda machines for government. Why do you think I'm no longer a journalist? I said my background is in journalism; but I don't now belong to any news media organization (nor do I suspect that I ever will again; I'm too truthful).

It was during my last job as a TV news reporter that I had the realization that the media are more government spin and ratings-seeking drama than they are champions of good causes. They entertain more than inform or instruct. There's a lot of misinformation (usually from the government) that...

...when record-low temperatures continue to be recorded in different locations? Well, Rush Limbaugh posed this seeming contradiction on his talk show earlier this week.

I emailed him explaining a little basic science (since, all his eloquence notwithstanding, it's painfully obvious that the man doesn't know much about science of any kind):

The boiling point of petroleum is around twice that of water.

The freezing point of petroleum is also much higher than that of water.

When man suctions out petroleum and replaces it with water, as has been done for decades, he is in effect tampering with Earth's coolant (and lubricant), petroleum.

Sure, it's possible for some places to register record lows. But...

"Communalism...is completely voluntary" under God's Law, you write. Well, now, you know that's not true. The Lord God commands us to tithe 10 percent of our increase, to take care of a society's combined needs (which includes feeding and housing the priests). There's nothing voluntary about that. It's mandatory.

Trouble is, this country often doesn't know when to stop. Right now, local to federal governments combined, embezzle around 70 percent of every dollar that a person earns. And since that's wealth that's enormously excessive, and that the government never had coming, what does the government do with it? Start wars for no reason. Build million-dollar bombs and billion-dollar stealth bombers; build lots of prisons...

John McCain?? How the heck are you? Doesn't the Senate give you enough to do, that you have time to type all that nonsense on this thread? (No, of course not.)

John, I know you have the Napoleonic Complex thing going, but do you HAVE to be so caustic?

No, John, I will NEVER win a Nobel. A few years ago, I went around telling my friends that I'd be the only person in all of history to win all six Nobel prizes simultaneously. But since then, I've had the somber realization that the Nobel Committee will NEVER give me even ONE prize, since I'm going around bad-mouthing its founder, Alfred Nobel, by saying that detonating explosives is very damaging -- not only to Earth, but to living organisms, also. In the end, the...

Re. Oct. 17, 7:24 p.m. EST post: Nick, let me know if you ever stop evolving and make it to human, so that we can attempt to have an intelligent discussion.

Until then, why don't you look into Darwin's Evolution Theory. Unlike the Satanist propaganda that states that the Theory accounts for the different species, anyone who has studied the Theory knows that it does not. Darwin's experiments with moths and finches only proved that small, gradual changes do indeed occur WITHIN, WITHIN, WITHIN a species, as mechanisms of adaptation. A bird population's feather colors may change over time, to blend into its surroundings; this will avoid getting eaten by predators, for instance, as the more colorful birds get eaten and taken...

Friend, I couldn't agree with you more when you say that schools are prisons...prisons that produce uneducated, selfish little Satan worshippers, I might add. No child of mine will ever go to a school, if I can help it. I don't trust the teachers, the other students or the lie-crammed textbooks. Unless schools change vastly, it's home-schooling, baby!

That said, our planet IS in grave peril, and we need to change the global economies from the cannibalistic, genocidal, pollution-riddled systems that we now have, to economies that are sustainable and do not cause disease through pollution.

You pose some valid comments; but to assume that I DON'T have the goods -- the data -- is just ignorance on your part, because the fact is that I do.

As I said, I've been studying the correlation between petroleum extraction and bomb detonation, and Earth's disasters, for ten years. I've taken many notes over that time, as tragedies occurred. My research finally culminated in a 91-page thesis on Earth and disease, which I finished writing and distributed several months ago. In my paper, you can clearly see the cause-and-effect; I offer and scrutinize many examples of disasters from recent years and recent times. FYI, I've gotten excellent comments from research scientists with PhD's and from physicians (I was a pre-med...