Alumni of Catholic colleges and universities rank their education and the values they learned in those institutions far more highly than alumni of major public universities do, education researcher Jim Day told a national gathering of Catholic college and university presidents Feb. 4.The alumni of Catholic schools were considerably more likely than their public university counterparts to say they benefited from opportunities for spiritual development in their college years, experienced an integration of values and ethics in classroom discussions and were helped to develop moral principles that can guide actions, he reported.

While only 53 percent of the public university alumni agreed that there was a sense of community among the students in their schools, 82 percent of those who graduated from Catholic institutions felt that way. Among other church-affiliated and unaffiliated private institutions, the numbers were 84 percent and 77 percent, respectively.

It seems almost silly that we need a study to find out that students at a school where values might be taught might learn more values that at a school where values are less likely to be taught. Unfortunately, since these are major Catholic universities we’re talking about, one has to wonder what values are being taught sometimes.

Just kidding. The inspiration for the headline is that Algore is going to put together big global warming concerts that will put Live Aid to shame.

The organisers hope to involve up to 2.5m people in events and link-ups at the cities involved, as well as other locations.

More on the concerts.

Here’s a great little quote from the Boston Globe:

I would like to say we’re at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let’s just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.

The editorial.

This blog is too focused on global warming, but it’s just too entertaining for me to pass up…nonetheless, I will try to get some other topics on here.

Here’s a decent little quiz on stuff you should have learned in your CCD class. I got a 100%. Hint: some of the alternate answers are pretty lame.

http://www.gotoquiz.com/do_you_know_your_baltimore_catechism

A great article here on how “Global Warming” as we know it is simply not happening. The first paragraph:

Global Warming, as we think we know it, doesn’t exist. And I am not the only one trying to make people open up their eyes and see the truth. But few listen, despite the fact that I was the first Canadian Ph.D. in Climatology and I have an extensive background in climatology, especially the reconstruction of past climates and the impact of climate change on human history and the human condition.“Few listen, even though I have a Ph.D, (Doctor of Science) from the University of London, England and was a climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg.” . For some reason (actually for many), the World is not listening. Here is why.

LINK – Nothing new here…you’re probably just wondering where. It’s at the College of William and Mary in VA this time around.

They clash, though, over what to do with an unadorned, 18-inch brass cross that had been displayed on the altar since about 1940.

Nichol ordered the cross removed in October to make the chapel more welcoming to students of all faiths. Previously, the cross could be removed by request; now it can be returned by request.

“It’s the right thing to do to make sure that this campus is open and welcoming to everyone,” Nichol said. “This is a diverse institution religiously, and we want it to become even more diverse.”

News flash, kids! Removing a cross from a chapel automatically makes your institution more diverse. There are huge crowds of Muslims, Hindus, and Jews who really wanted to attend W&M, but they heard there was a cross on display in a chapel, and figured they better not come or they might get lynched. Now, though, they will understand that this is a welcoming campus because the cross isn’t there anymore.

“The message that is sent by removing the cross is that we no longer value that part of our heritage, and that’s a mistake,” said Haley, research director at the American Enterprise Institute for former House speaker Newt Gingrich. “It reflects a view that religious symbols – religion and the public expression thereof – are somehow an obstacle for us to get along with one another.”

This is basically the same quote you always hear from the insensitive Christians in these type news stories.

Apparently, removing the cross is making a difference:

Ro’ee Mor, a student from Israel, said that as an Orthodox Jew he was uncomfortable when he and other freshmen were taken to the chapel during orientation.

Since the cross’ removal, he sometimes goes to the chapel to meditate. “I feel more an integral part of the community due to this symbolic action,” he said.

You can see why it’s so easy for the leftist profs to turn these young heads full of mush down the dark passageway to liberalism. I’d be embarrassed to have a quote like that attributed to me…now or when I was 19!

The chicken littles are keeping it coming on a daily basis lately. The UN released its report today that says global warming is here to stay, only about 25% of it is caused by humans, and there’s nothing we can do about it, it’ll be all over for us in another 2o years. Here’s one story. I almost hesitate to do this, but he makes some really good points. So, here goes. Neal Boortz provides on his website a list of reasons to be skeptical about “global warming.” Here is that list.

• The United Nations is anti-American and anti-Capitalist. In short .. I don’t trust them. Not a bit. The UN would eagerly engage in any enterprise that would weaken capitalist economies around the world.
• Because after the fall of the Soviet Union and worldwide Communism many in the anti-capitalist movement moved to the environmental movement to continue pursuing their anti-free enterprise goals. Many of the loudest proponents of man-made global warming today are confirmed anti-capitalists.
• Because the sun is warmer .. and all of these scientists don’t seem to be willing to credit a warmer sun with any of the blame for global warming.
• The polar ice caps on Mars are melting. How did our CO2 emissions get all the way to Mars?
• It was warmer in the 1930s across the globe than it is right now.
• It wasn’t all that long ago that these very same scientists were warning us about “global cooling” and another approaching ice age?
• How much has the earth warmed up in the last 100 years? One degree. Now that’s frightening.
• Because that famous “hockey stick” graph that purports to show a sudden warming of the earth in the last few decades is a fraud. It ignored previous warming periods … left them off the graph altogether.
• The infamous Kyoto accords exempt some of the world’s biggest CO2 polluters, including China and India.
• The Kyoto accords can easily be seen as nothing less than an attempt to hamstring the world’s dominant capitalist economies.
• Because many of these scientists who are sounding the global warming scare depend on grant money for their livelihood, and they know the grant money dries up when they stop preaching the global warming sermon.
• Because global warming “activists” and scientists seek to punish those who have different viewpoints. If you are sure of your science you have no need to shout down or seek to punish those who disagree.
• What happened to the Medieval Warm Period? In 1996 the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a chart showing climatic change over a period of 1000 years. This graph showed a Medieval warming period in which global temperatures were higher than they are today. In 2001 the IPCC issued another 1000 year graph in which the Medieval warming period was missing. Why?
• Why has one scientist promoting the cause of man-made global warming been quoted as saying “we have to get rid of the medieval warming period?”
• Why is the ice cap on the Antarctic getting thicker if the earth is getting warmer?
• In the United State, the one country with the most accurate temperature measuring and reporting records, temperatures have risen by 0.3 degrees centigrade over the past 100 years. The UN estimate is twice that.
• There are about 160,000 glaciers around the world. Most have never been visited or measured by man. The great majority of these glaciers are growing, not melting.
• Side-looking radar interferometry shows that the ise mass in the West Antarctic is growing at a rate of over 26 gigatons a year. This reverses a melting trend that had persisted for the previous 6,000 years.
• Rising sea levels? The sea levels have been rising since the last ice age ended. That was 12,000 years ago. Estimates are that in that time the sea level has risen by over 300 feet. The rise in our sea levels has been going on long before man started creating anything but natural CO2 emissions.
• Like Antarctica, the interior of Greenland is gaining ice mass.
• Over the past 3,000 years there have been five different extended periods when the earth was measurably warmer than it is today.
• During the last 20 years — a period of the highest carbon dioxide levels — global temperatures have actually decreased. That’s right … decreased.
• Why did a reporter from National Public Radio refuse to interview David Deming, an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma studying global warming, after his testimony to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee unless Deming would state that global warming was being caused by man?
• Why are global warming proponents insisting that the matter is settled and that no further scientific research is needed? Why are they afraid of additional information?
• On July 24, 1974 Time Magazine published an article entitled “Another Ice Age?” Here’s the first paragraph:
  

  “As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.”

Just to prove that not every scientist out there is attending the Global Warming Holiness Temple of the Most Holy Ozone Layer, we have this article all about a scientist who disputes whether it’s nearly as bad as the chicken littles are saying. Of course the smear campaign against him has begun.

Here’s your link!