“I send the energy of love and gratitude to the waters and all living creatures in the Gulf of Mexico and its surroundings.

“To the whales, dolphins, pelicans, fish, shellfish, planktons, corals, algae, humankind … to ALL  living creatures …

“I am sorry.
“Please forgive me.
“Thank you.
“I love you.”

This is Dr. Masaru Emoto’s prayer for the Gulf of Mexico, forwarded by Mary Ellen AngelScribe.

Dr. Emoto has published extensive research on the characteristics of water. He has found that water physically responds to emotions.

As Mary Ellen points out, many of us are predominantly angry when we consider what is happening in the Gulf of Mexico as a result of BP’s massive oil spill.

While our emotion is justified, Mary Ellen suggests, and I agree, that we may be of greater assistance to our planet and all of its life if we collectively and humbly pray for healing.

Help set an intention of love and healing so large and so overwhelming that we can perform a miracle in the Gulf of Mexico.

We are not powerless.
We are powerful.

Our united energy, repeating his prayer daily…multiple times…can literally shift what is happening.

We don’t have to know how, Mary Ellen adds. Just recognize that the power of love is greater than any other power in the universe.

Help take charge … and do our own cleanup!

Amen, Mary Ellen!

Tonight’s “Earth Hour” asks people to spend 60 minutes in darkness as a way of showing support for the environment. No electricity on a mass scale supposedly reduces pollution from generating plants by cutting back on power demand, if only temporarily.

Is this truly the best approach to raising environmental awareness? After all, it sends the same negative message floated for decades by those who have always opposed anything to help curb pollution. Saving the planet means we all have to sacrifice and go without. We can’t have the benefits of electric power without pollution, or a clean environment and plentiful electricity.

Who says this is the case? This is a false choice. We have never really thrown our creative and financial resources behind developing non-polluting ways of generating power. We have given it lip-service for decades but little else.

So cut the lights for an hour tonight and feel ever so virtuous. But it won’t really do anything substantial to solve the problem and it will reinforce the false belief that the only way to aid the environment is through deprivation and sacrifice in lieu of investment and innovation.

Finally. Someone asked the question that we all should have thought to ask when the greenhouse gases theory of global warming first came up two decades ago.

That one question: Is carbon dioxide actually capable of functioning as a greenhouse gas?  To do that, CO2 has to trap significant quantities both of direct radiation from the sun and, most important, heat radiated back from earth.

Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden asked just that question. He then replies to it at http://www.middlebury.net/op-ed/global-warming-01.html

Using the process of atomic absorption spectrometry, Peden found that poor old carbon dixoide simply does not have the molecular structure to trap significant quantities of heat radiated from earth (the greenhouse effect) or of direct radiance from the sun (in the form of visible light and other non-visible wavelengths).

It’s all over. The greenhouse gases theory based on CO2 doesn’t hold up under direct examination by a process of basic physics.

Peden states that water vapor is the primary cause of greenhouse effect. Shall we now aim to outlaw water vapor in the atmosphere?

Climate change is real. So is actual atmospheric pollution, like carbon monoxide, sulphur, nitrous oxides, ash, etc. Let’s stop wasting time and energy over an atmospheric gas that does not contribute to atmospheric heating or pollution, and start focusing on true environmental problems.