Perhaps this is a very minor thought, but did you know that a regular microwave oven is just a box when it isn't running? It makes very little difference whether something is sitting outside the oven or in it once it goes"ding". If you just microwaved some water, you may want to let it sit a few seconds in case it is superheated. You may have heated water to above the boiling point and moving it may cause it to suddenly boil. Otherwise, if someone is waiting to heat their coffee cup and you just cooked some noodles and the noodles need to sit for 90 seconds, they don't have to rest in the oven.

   Perhaps the reason so many people are telling Al Gore that he shouldn't be building an Ark for all those animals is somehow related to this. I realize that most people may have trouble seeing the connection, so I will drop a few hints. Common belief is that Noah was ridiculed for building the Ark, but there is no biblical record of that concept. Since the story of Noah is one version of an ancient story that has been part of human oral history for a very long time and the folk version has the builder of the ark being ridiculed it is likely that he was. The fact is that in the popular version of the story he is, so let's stick with it.

   The point is that  people are frequently not too bright when it comes to simple science. The history of the greenhouse effect on Earth and its effect on the weather is extremely well established fact.  The only realistic debate about the effect of Mankind's influence on global warming since the beginning of the industrial age is whether it is totally the influence of mankind or perhaps as little as 80%.  The current scientific debate is whether or not we have passed the tipping point.

   About 10 or 11 millennia ago there was a tipping point that occurred  due to a release of methane caused by undersea landslides which resulted from the gradual global warming associated with the ending of the last ice age, a process that is still ongoing. The sudden warming associated with that methane incident resulted in a rise in sea levels at a precipitous rate. Numerous mythologies from around the world tell of a great flood. The Golden Age of mankind ended. The Garden of Eden is under 300 feet of water. Civilization was probably set back several thousand years.

   That the Human race is facing world wide rise of sea levels is inevitable. Whether it takes another 10,000 years for sea levels to rise another several hundred feet or if it only takes 100 years is pretty much in our hands. If we continue our wicked ways of poisoning our atmosphere we can expect that the Power which rules over us will let our race once again feel the consequences  or our sins.

   If you insist of only thinking of that Power as natural law, we are still on the same page. God knows his name. Frankly, God is god by any name. The Bible says that He knows when people call upon him by any name. He (or She) also knows when we don't. Don't don't.