Actually, it a stack of rocks.  Nothing to really worship about except of course to better enlighten ones perspective on devotion.  Whether you are devoted to a stack of rocks or to a belief in a intangible force of nature, worship can be a powerful force. 



It's the rainy season here in Hawai'i and we are get loads of rain. 
It's the seasonal effects of our planet traveling through the stars.



Our Solar System

Beautiful in nature and motion, but equally dangerous and vast.  The understanding of the universe is a subject of much theory and some facts.  By the term some facts, I mean there's a lot that we still don't understand about the universe and how it works.  Theories are just conjecture, a guess, speculation, not fact.  A formation or expression of an opinion without sufficient evidence for proof.











In an "unforeseen and unprecedented" shift, the world food supply is dwindling rapidly and food prices are soaring to historic levels, the top food and agriculture official of the United Nations warned Monday.


What you say?  Unforeseen and Unprecedented?  More like Unprepared and Poorly Researched.  Food Prices soaring to hysterical records?  Well, this is what happens when you use food for fuel.  The decision to move away from fossil fuels and use bio-energy fuels like ethanol from corn in it's place is the reason for the shortages of food and the rising cost of food.  It's all in the effort to solve a perceived Global Warming problem. 

When you divert corn from a food product to a fuel product, you need to consider how that will effect other uses of corn.  Corn, a plant, is used for feeding livestock, making cereal and other food stuffs.  Farmers are growing more corn to keep up with the demand, thus the cost of corn increases as demand increases.  However, farmers are not planting other crops, but instead are planting more corn.  The price of corn has increased making the cost of food increase.  Livestock farmers have to pay more for grain to feed their cows, pigs and chickens, they pass that cost on to the consumer.  Which means higher prices in the supermarket.  But there is another consequence to using food for fuel.


Let’s start with the math. Corn doesn’t grow like a weed. Modern corn farming involves heavy inputs of nitrogen fertilizer (made with natural gas), applications of herbicides and other chemicals (made mostly from oil), heavy machinery (which runs on diesel) and transportation (diesel again). Converting the corn into fuel requires still more energy. The ratio of how much energy is used to make ethanol versus how much it delivers is known as the energy balance, and calculating it is surprisingly complex.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory states that, “Today, 1 Btu of fossil energy consumed in producing and delivering corn ethanol results in 1.3 Btu of usable energy in your fuel tank.” Even that modest payback may be overstated. Skeptics cite the research of Cornell University professor David Pimentel, who estimates that it takes approximately 1.3 gal. of oil to produce a single gallon of ethanol.

If the benefits are in doubt, the costs are not. It would take 450 pounds of corn to yield enough ethanol to fill the tank of an SUV. Producing enough ethanol to replace America’s imported oil alone would require putting nearly 900 million acres under cultivation—or roughly 95 percent of the active farmland in the country. Once we’ve turned our farms into filling stations, where will the food come from?


Indeed, where will our food come from?  Is the cost of using ethanol worth the amount of fossil fuel energy it takes to produce ethanol?  What are the long and short term consequences?  The heavy used of nitrogen based fertilizers have been a source of pollution in rivers and streams due to run off.  The machines used to harvest corn, process corn and deliver corn to ethanol stations use diesel fuels.  Are we using more energy to produce ethanol than when before ethanol was introduced as a alternative to fossil fuels?  Does ethanol production reduce so called greenhouse gases?

The result of ethanol usage has not delivered any savings to the environment.  If the goal to reduce fossil fuel usage through the use of bio-energy fuels is going to use more energy to produce and damages the environment in other ways, then where is the payoff?  Is our rush to protect the environment allowing us to make bad decisions on how to protect the environment?  Before we adopt a solution, we need to study the impact of our decisions.  The cause and effect may be disastrous.


Cause and Effect

This is the classic story of Henny Penny, the classic Chicken Little fairy tale.



Al Gore may have won an Oscar and the Nobel Peace Prize, but is he more of an alarmist than foreseer of a planetary emergencies?  He admits he's not a scientist and he has been a champion of environment issues.

Al Gore says global warming is a planetary emergency. It is difficult to see how this can be so when record low temperatures are being set all over the world. In 2007, hundreds of people died, not from global warming, but from cold weather hazards.

South America this year experienced one of its coldest winters in decades. In Buenos Aires, snow fell for the first time since the year 1918. Dozens of homeless people died from exposure. In Peru, 200 people died from the cold and thousands more became infected with respiratory diseases. Crops failed, livestock perished, and the Peruvian government declared a state of emergency.

Last January, $1.42 billion worth of California produce was lost to a devastating five-day freeze. Thousands of agricultural employees were thrown out of work. At the supermarket, citrus prices soared. In the wake of the freeze, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked President Bush to issue a disaster declaration for affected counties. A few months earlier, Mr. Schwarzenegger had enthusiastically signed the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, a law designed to cool the climate. California Sen. Barbara Boxer continues to push for similar legislation in the U.S. Senate.

The evidence about climate change is evident.  It is happening.  But is it Global Warming as Al Gore would have you believe?  Or is it fluctuations due to natural events other than man made.  Can the output of mans power on the environment equal the power of the sun?

1) The main cause of Global Warming is orbital eccentricities of Earth and variations in the Sun’s output.  This is global warming and global cooling.

2) Atmospheric Circulatory patterns of ocean currents. Heat retention, Solar reflectivity  This is climate change.

3) Geologic events such as volcano's and tectonic movements all contributes to long and short term climate change.  For example, when a volcano explodes gas and dust in the atmosphere, it may cool the planet for several years.

Earths climate is constantly in motion and will continue to change irregardless of mans contribution to the climate.  It is presumptuous to think only people are causing Global Warming.  So the question is if there really is a thing as "Global Warming"?

It is an attempt to push Socialist Ideology through the guise of Global Warming by the Democrats and Leftist environmentalist.  It is an attempt to control and regulate your lives and tax your activities.  Read what real scientists, that understand climatology, are saying.  Here.





With all the rain, we're getting a variety of snails.



A new crop of tomato seedlings are on the way.



Flooding Roads



It's the Christmas season

So what's for dinner?


Ahi Tuna Sashimi and Rice Rolls with Korbel Champagne.