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In the place you speak of, it explicitly says the cause would be an increase in the heat coming from the sun, not something caused by mankind.

But I am satisfied that this, being part of a vision, is symbolic, rather than literal.

Why you liberal Amil you! I thought only Amils recognised symbolism when it smacks them in the face with its sheer obviousness. Funny how premils of various flavours are so selective in what they read as symbolic and what is literal.
 
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Why you liberal Amil you! I thought only Amils recognised symbolism when it smacks them in the face with its sheer obviousness. Funny how premils of various flavours are so selective in what they read as symbolic and what is literal.

I knew you would react this way. But I am not even slightly "selective" about this. I have repeatedly posted here, and I wrote in my book, a simple rule:

Prophetic visions are symbolic.

Explicit statements that such-and-such is going to happen are literal, even when they occur within a vision.

These are not rules that I invented, but that I have observed in the scriptures. Wherever the scriptures tell us what a vision means, it is always different from what the prophet saw. But wherever the scriptures tell us that a prophecy has been fulfilled, it has always been fulfilled literally.
 
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Prophetic visions are symbolic.

Explicit statements that such-and-such is going to happen are literal, even when they occur within a vision.

So within a prophetic vision that's symbolic which bits are to be taken literally? You've created wide enough semantic gaps here to drive a literal truck though within the scope of this metaphor, if you see what I mean.
 
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So within a prophetic vision that's symbolic which bits are to be taken literally? You've created wide enough semantic gaps here to drive a literal truck though within the scope of this metaphor, if you see what I mean.

Any statement that a specific event is going to happen.

A typical example is "Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea." (Revelation 20:7-8)
 
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Except that the entire book of Revelation is written in symbolic apocalyptic literature. The number 1000 is used symbolically over half the time in Scripture, and Gog and Magog are symbolic as well. Number of the sand of the sea? Symbolic. The sea itself in Revelation? Symbolic, just as it was in Genesis 1 really. Four corners of the earth? Symbolic.

Symbolism everywhere here really, unless you want to read it as saying the world is literally a cube and the Gog Magog battle will contain 700,500,000,000,000,000,000 people.
Grains of Sand on the World's Beaches

(BTW, that's 0.7 Trillion TIMES the number of people on earth today, and we're struggling to feed today's population! So unless you know about 700 BILLION new worlds we can inhabit to beef up the population a little (te he he), pffft: so much for reading this literally.
 
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The scriptural meaning of this figure of speech, which is something radically different from symbolic language, is clearly stated in Genesis 32:12, where we read, "For You said, 'I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.' "
 
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The whole point is you said it was literal, and it's anything but. It seems you just tell us one thing is 'literal' and then another thing is a 'figure of speech' when you want it to be literal and a figure of speech: ignoring all the normal rules of literary criticism and thought. The reality is the ENTIRE BOOK is symbolic language, and any attempt to isolate out a 'literal' 1000 years is silly pandering to theological prejudices. It disrespects the book.
 
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The false Denialism of those who love fossil-fuel deaths at 7 million-a-year, love oil wars and energy insecurity, are not patriotic enough to think about weaning the nation off dirty old technologies to clean new technologies with energy security, don't care about the development of their children and grandchildren, don't care about geopolitical issues that energy insecurity causes, all add up to:
1. You believing ridiculous anti-science memes like "Climatologists don't even KNOW that temperatures lead carbon cycles in the ice-ages"
2. "Climatologists don't even KNOW there are extensive ice shelves in Antarctica"

I've shown both of these to be ridiculous, and actually feel a little sorry for you. I'm not even a scientist, and you've shown yourself to be utterly incompetent when critiquing the science you're not even acquainted with!
 
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I am not going to debate you on this. Any and every rational person knows the difference between symbolic language and figures of speech.
 
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I did not know that climate scientists knew that changes in temperature lead changes in atmospheric carbon because I do not read their lies. And Istick to my gins in saying that if they actually knew this, they were blatantly lying when they continued to claim that the cause-and-effect order was actually the opposite of what they still claim it is.

And you cannot find anywhere that I said that they did not know that there are extensive ice shelves in Antarctica. I only pointed out that, the ice shelves are at record highs even while they are claiming that melting is at record highs.
 
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Yeah, well you stick to your gins. You've obviously been drinking too many gins, and lost your knack for reading scientific papers that analyse longer cause-and-effect sequences than 1 + 1. You were caught out, and so stubbornly stick your your GINS. Good on you. As I said before even answering your objection, you're not even aware of the many climate forcings, let alone how they interact. You embarrass yourself every time you open your mouth on this subject: and YOU'RE meant to be the glorious scientist! Because you obviously didn't read the answer to this problem, I'll post it again below for your benefit.

....I only pointed out that, the ice shelves are at record highs even while they are claiming that melting is at record highs.
That's because there's more than ONE ice shelf in Antarctica, isn't there? The climate scientists readily admit ONE of them has high ice, and why it has high ice. The other Western ice sheet is collapsing, and will raise sea-levels by 1.2 meters all on its own, without Greenland which was previously the main sea-level concern the IPCC was monitoring. But you go ahead and talk about the other ice sheet again, there's a good boy. Just ignore the fact that the CLIMATE COMMUNITY ALREADY KNOW ALL ABOUT IT AND ARE HAPPY TO DISCUSS IT, and then maybe a reader here will be deceived by your omission of this truth, and be convinced that the climate community don't even know what they're talking about. But that would be your fault, wouldn't it? Isn't that called lying by omission?

TEMP LEADS CARBON CROCK

Denialist's love to attack Al Gore for many reasons, whether his jet-setting lifestyle or energy intense mansions, or for his movie. His presentation of the Ice Ages in 'An Inconvenient Truth' gets a lot of attention. Al Gore *seemed* to suggest that climate science was based on the idea that changes in CO2 caused the Ice Ages. Rises in CO2 melted the ice, and drops in CO2 caused the Ice Age to creep back. But Denialists correctly jump on this, pointing out that temperature changed first and *then* 700 or 800 years the CO2 changes followed. Something changed the temperature FIRST, and only AFTER many centuries did the CO2 eventually follow. The whole of climate science was undermined! This argument featured prominently in Martin Durkin's 'Great Global Warming Swindle', and originally had me questioning climate science.

Except it's a bunch of clever half-truth's covering a lie of omission.

1. Climate scientists have always known this! Al Gore over-simplified a rather complex scientific story, but any good climate journal on the subject will admit that the ice age story begins with long wobbles in the Earth's orbit and tilt that cause changes in incoming sunlight and where that sunlight hits. The temperature changes first because of changes in how the Earth receives sunlight. (These wobbles are called Milankovitch cycles and you can read more about them at wikipedia:
Milankovitch cycles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

or watch fantastic animations of them at 'Climate Crock of the Week'.
The "Temp Leads Carbon" Crock: Updated - YouTube

2. Climate science was *never* based on *just* that graph, but on the demonstrable physics of CO2 as a heat-trapper. Physicists measure CO2's heat trapping properties with a Fourier device. It's the same result, every time. It's an established fact, like the boiling point of water or melting point of various metals. It's old science, something you look up in a book rather than bothering to test again and again, reinventing the wheel. The rest is maths. Calculate how much CO2 was in the air before the Industrial Revolution, and then measure how much extra we've dumped into the atmosphere now, and the difference shows how much extra heat is trapped. The next bit is the tricky part of measuring where that heat *goes* and how it interacts with other systems on the earth (but that's another story).

3. But there's a problem with Milankovitch cycles. The increased or reduced sunlight is not enough to cause the *immense* changes in temperature that we observe! It turns out that the Milankovitch wobble's dimmer sunlight 'triggers' the ice age, but as ice grows it traps CO2 in under frozen permafrost, locking it out of the normal CO2 cycles. As the temperatures drop, more CO2 is trapped, more ice acts like a mirror bouncing sunlight back into space before it can be absorbed and turned into heat, and the cycle continues. The final result? Roughly 40% of the change actually comes from CO2 being trapped (or released) by changes in the ice. (See the 2nd paragraph, column 2 of page 144).
http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1990/1990_Lorius_etal.pdf
In other words, if the 'wobbles' are the 'trigger', then CO2 is the gunpowder that propels this 'climate shot' along.

From this more detailed perspective Al Gore was almost right! The CO2 *did* account for the *eventual* extremes of temperature we see at the depths of a bad Ice Age, and the release of the CO2 accounts for the much warmer temperatures between Ice Ages. But a Denialist will never tell you all this. They just ask "How can CO2 affect climate when it RESPONDS to changes in temperature!" They leave out half the story. As always.





 
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I don't think you understand the situation at all. Please go back and read my exchanges with Biblewriter. Yes, climatologists admit there ARE some areas of Antarctica that are getting colder as the planet heats! Sounds crazy right? But that's science for you: unexpected flow on effects and consequences to do with extra energy in the atmosphere result in the tightening of the Antarctic Vortex, and like an ice skater pulling their arms in to speed up, sucks in rain that used to fall over South Australia that falls as snow on parts of Antarctica. Hence, a warming world => faster cyclonic storm => less rain in Southern Australia (bad) but more ice and cooling in certain specific central parts of Antarctica.

The climate scientists already know all this, and have accounted for it. I saw it on Australia's Catalyst science show back in 2003, and you still haven't heard about it?
Catalyst: Drought Vortex - ABC TV Science

When denialists quote stuff like this and s[bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] as if climatologists don't know about it, it just confirms the Denialist's complete and utter ignorance of the science they are pretending to critique. It's just embarrassing for them, and there appear to be far, far more Denialists in Australia and America than in any other country on earth. It's sad. I don't know what's happened to our [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] cultures, but 'individual choice' seems to have lead people to believe in 'individual reality'. You just choose not to believe in climate change because you vote Republican? Pathetic.

Meanwhile, we're not talking about central parts of Antarctica which may still be taking on extra ice for all I know, but the massive West Antarctic ice shelf which really IS starting to melt and accelerate into the ocean without any way to stop itself.

I can only assume it's complete ignorance that makes you guys respond with completely irrelevant factoids? Or maybe you don't know how big Antarctica really is as a continent? It's as if I've said "The New York Yankees are going all the way this year" and you've said, "No, because I like pizza!" Um, yeah? Good luck with that.
 
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  • You obviously need to go back about 5 or 10 pages on this thread and learn how:-
    coal kills 7 million people EVERY YEAR,
  • coal kills more people each week when it goes RIGHT than the WHOLE HISTORY of nuclear power going wrong,
  • coal oil and gas get billions in government subsidies as an enemy of the free marketplace and practically communist choice of energy source,
  • how coal and oil and gas cost nations so much more in their health bill that America as a whole would find it CHEAPER to switch to a mix of GenIV nukes and renewables
  • oil is geopolitically linked to national security and weaning off oil fast is an act of patrotism every American should support
  • how America has enough spent-nuclear-fuel to burn in GenIV Integral Fast Reactors to run America for 1000 years
  • how new reactors WOULD NOT melt down even if a tidal wave knocked out their cooling systems, and how the fuel rods themselves can't melt down because of the laws of physics
  • how this is win win win, and climate change is TRUE ANYWAY and only tinfoil hat wearing armchair conspiracy theorists are in enough denial that they can convince themselves they actually know something about this.
 
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