An ecumenical church service was held before the march in St Leo the Great Roman Catholic Church in Beech Avenue, Bellahouston.
It was attended by the Right Reverend Bill Hewitt, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Cardinal Keith O’Brien, leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland and the Most Reverend David Chillingworth, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church.
Mr Hewitt said: “We need to be sure that the negotiators gathered in Copenhagen are aware of our support and our belief in the importance of their task.”
Cardinal O’Brien added: “People from all faiths and none will suffer the effects of catastrophic climate change if world leaders fail to deal with the problem.”
The Global Warming Religion is collapsing rather spectacularly.
“CRU Raw Temp Data Shows No Significant Warming Over Most Of The World”
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/11582
“Climategate: The Smoking Code
The Proof Behind the CRU Climategate Debacle: Because Computers Do Lie When Humans Tell Them To”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/04/climategate-the-smoking-code/
“Met Office to re-examine 160 years of climate data”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6945445.ece
Its sad that a country, Scotland, that has produced great scientists and engineers has religious leaders who are gullible enough to swallow the global warming political scam “hook, line and sinker.”
As I understand it, Scotland once produced grapes and had prolific vineyards. Then the climate changed, and they became better known for Whiskey and Ale. I guess all those Highlanders were driving Highlander SUVs?
Here’s a [url=http://www.rampantscotland.com/let041127.htm]source[/url] for my statement:
[blockquote]It is hard on a chilly, grey November day to envisage growing enough grapes in Scotland to support a wine-making industry, but a professor of geology is predicting that as a result of global warming, south-facing slopes in the Southern Uplands, the southern edge of the Grampians and the Great Glen could all be producing large quantities of grapes by the end of the century. With the higher temperatures being forecast, “Côte d’Ecosse” wines could be grown on soils which are similar to the vine-growing regions of South Africa. Of course, the down-side of this will be that growing barley for Scotland’s traditional whisky will be less than ideal and grain may have to be sourced from places like Iceland and Norway. Scientists are forecasting that Scotland’s temperatures will rise by three degrees celsius by 2100. [b]During a warm phase of climate during Roman times, vines were grown in southern England as far north as the rivers Humber and Severn.[/b] [/blockquote]
[b]3. libraryjim[/b],
Your understanding is just a bit awry. Scotland has never produced any significant grape-based wines, and the English certainly didn’t after the medieval period of warming ended with the European “Little Ice Age.” Prior to the middle 1800s, most English and Scots drank wine by preference, predominantly clarets, sherry and port from Fance, Spain and Portugal, and may also have consumed some German wines.
The precipitating event that caused the opportunity for growth in the UK for the whisky trade was the epidemic of phylloxera ([i]Vitius vitifoliae[/i]) in Europe in the mid-1850s. The epidemic of these very tiny insect pests wiped out Europe’s ability to produce wine, by killing the grape vines. The sudden shortage of wines available for import to the UK led to a commercial opportunity which culminated in the Scottish whisky distillers introducing quantity production of [i]blended[/i] Scotch whisky. Alcoholic beverages added to water were, by then, a known means of ensuring that water was potable. Potability was also a driver of the Royal Navy issuing a regular ration of rum in the form of grog (usually rum, but at times “small beer,” diluted with water) which had been introduced into the RN on 21 August 1740.
Pax et bonum,
Keith Töpfer
Member, Scotch Malt Whisky Society (USA)
Ah, well, at any rate, their loss (grapes) is the world’s gain (Scotch Whiskey)!
Amen! (Even though it is spelled [i]whiskey[/i] only by the Irish and the Americans, everyone else’s product is spelled [i]whisky[/i].)
Pax et bonum,
Keith Töpfer
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“[i]The common belief that whisky improves with age is true. The older I get the more I like it.[/i]”—[i][Ronnie Corbett][/i]