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Don't Panic!

As the evidence for a global Mediaeval Warm Period is now overwhelming surely it's time to admit that global warming and cooling are natural and cyclical - and to ditch the arrogant notion that humans have caused global warming.  Also note that this also means that there is no big apocalypse coming, at least not one caused by carbon dioxide build up in the atmosphere.  Rather, the globe is warming just as it has done in the past and will do again.  For everything there is a season...

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Jesus loves me! This I know
For the Bible tells me so.
Little ones to Him belong.
They are weak but He is strong.

Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me!
The Bible tells me so.

(Words by Anna B. Warner 1860; Music by William B. Bradbury 1861)
(Whitney Houston singing Jesus loves me: click here)

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