The Abomination of Desolation - St. Marys Coptic Orthodox Church

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Fund for Nature, said in a statement released from the fund
headquarters in Switzerland. “There is no sunrise or sunset,” said
a resident of Kuala Lumpur. Time Magazine reported that people
in the region drove at noon with lights ablaze because of the haze.
A Jet crash that killed 234 people in Sumatra was also blamed on
the poor visibility. 1
Even in industrialized nations in the West, smog created by emissions
from cars and industry often makes the day seem shorter than usual.
And, with governments reluctant to enforce what they agreed upon
concerning emission levels, it is likely that these problems will continue,
and even worsen.
The problem with emission levels is not confined to the smog that
covers many of the major cities of the world, but leads to a more serious
problem; Global Warming. The much talked about “greenhouse
effect” is now recognized as a possible threat to Man’s existence on this
planet.
There is ample evidence that global warming is accelerating:
The sultriest three years in the century have occurred in the last
decade, and the hottest year ever recorded was 1995. The change
is evident not just in thermometer readings. Spring is arriving a
week earlier in the Northern hemisphere than it did a decade ago,
and strange things are happening with wild life. A butterfly in the
American West has moved 200 km north of where it used to live.
Cold water brook trout have disappeared in some areas of North
America as streams warm up. Mountain ice caps in tropical zones
are melting fast, as are glaciers in northern climes. Then there are
the unusually frequent bouts of nasty weather: flooding in central
Europe, vicious cyclones in South Asia, freak spring snowstorms in
the American plains. Scientists have found that the amount of
moisture in the air has gone up 10% in the last 20 years. The extra
moisture could disrupt weather patterns, producing stronger, more
frequent storms in some areas and drought in other places. 2
1 Time Magazine, October 6, 1997
2 Time Magazine: Special Report, November 1997