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Climategate: The 5th Plague
Frank KaufmannDecember 4, 2009AP reports thatthousands of pieces of correspondence between some of the world's leadingclimate scientists were stolen from the unit at the University of East Anglia and leaked to theInternet late last month. Skeptics of man-made global warming say the e-mails are proof thatscientists have been conspiring to hide evidence showing that global warming was not as strongas generally believed.A British university said Thursday it would investigate whether scientists at its prestigiousClimatic Research Unit fudged data on global warming.There was further criticism following the revelation that the university had thrown out much of the raw temperature data on which some of its global warming research was based. Theuniversity said in a statement last week that the data, stored on paper and magnetic tape, wasdumped in the 1980s to save space when the unit moved to a new location.We can be grateful that the scandal rocking the scientific establishment (branded Climategate)has been exposed. This blot and undoing is another severe earth tremor pleading for our awakening. We must find the wellspring of fundamental change and reform if,as a race, we are atleast to survive if not flourish in this, one of history's most extreme times of transition.From the birth of television and telecommunications until the present moment of "apps" laden personal devices still (for some reason) called "phones," our race hurtles toward a social realitywith descriptors formerly reserved only for God Himself! Email/video-chat capabilities emulateomnipresence (everywhere, all the time), and Google and google-like tracking practically of our every thought emulates omniscience (all-knowing).Communications technology has intensified “presence,” to the extent that practically no inch onearth is not available to my instant "presence." We can be with in real time friends and lovedones face to face in all moments. Gmail arrives in my pocket carrying ads using key words frominside my private correspondence. The implications for human life when substantial socialreality becomes characterized by qualities once reserved only for professions of faith isstaggering. Wholly insufficient reflection has gone into change of this magnitude.This radical alteration of social reality coincides with mere decades in which billions of newsouls are poured into our fragile biosphere at alarming rates. Even a 5 year old could see that our innermost basics are too arcane and ill-fitted to persist in this time of jaw-drop changes in our social and natural environments.The Bible records 10 plagues suffered by the Pharoh in God's grandiose effort to awaken him, tostop his heart from being so hard, and urge him to release the divine in his midst. The same ishappening now on a global scale. I count 5 plagues so far, Climategate being the 5th. By plague Imean whenever the rock steady and necessary foundations of our very existence are shaken. Theglue and the Terra firma needed to prevent the outbreak of bedlam and unthinkable globalhorrors.These assaults on foundations include: Loss of "the word," the loss of the teacher, the loss of thegood, loss of commerce, and now loss of information.
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