XtnYoda suggests another theory dealing with the “Global Warming” alarms.

Instead of “Global Warming” what is suggested is actually taking place in “Global Drying”, or the drying of the earth. This theory would be what XtnYoda would call the “Dying of the Earth”. We often hear news reports of the spreading of the deserts such as this report from the “Cool Planet” website for children.

Desertification - expansion of the desert - is a grave problem that affects not only those countries in the direct path of the encroaching arid lands, but also has implications for the rest of the world. To give some idea of the scale of the problem, the last 50 years have seen the Sahara desert spread southwards to cover an extra 65 million hectares, and on a global scale, the area of useful land lost each year exceeds six million hectares.

Desertification is brought about by our planet's progressively changing climate - the world is becoming warmer and drier, and this means there is less water to support plants and animals…

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/kidsweb/index.htm

Just where are these ‘expanding’ deserts? They are not in the America’s as of yet but rather seem located in the northern half of Africa and the Mideast parts of our planet.

It seems to be a strange coincidence that these increasingly expanding deserts and drying wastelands coincide with the spreading of Islam. With that thought in mind let us look at the meaning of the most ‘holy’ month of Islam which is called Ramadan as described on the “answers” web site.

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and the most sacred of the twelve months. The name Ramadan derives from the Arabic word for intense heat and sun-scorched ground. A number of reasons have been advanced to explain the linguistic connection:

• It refers to the hot, dry sensation of thirst during this month of fasting
• Ramadan scorches out evil like the sun scorches the earth
• Just as heat shapes and influences all matter — organic and inorganic — so does Ramadan shape and influence the believer
  

http://www.answers.com/topic/ramadan

For the Christian the promise of new life in Christ represents quite the opposite. Instead of seeking the parching dryness of drought we seek living waters and we seek to be vessels of that living water.

“If anyone is thirsty, he should come to Me and drink! The one who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him.”
John 7:37-38 (HCSB)

Quite a contrast between "living water" as our desire and the "drying of the earth" as Islam's thought of holiness.

If global warming, if true in itself, were taking place without the "drying of the earth" what we would end up with is even more lush vegetation it would seem to XtnYoda.

Therefore, for your consideration, observe the spreading drying of the earth through spiritual eyes. Then join me in praying and working toward the spreading of Christianity as a life giving stream.

Ezek 47:8
This river flows east through the desert into the Jordan Valley, where it enters the Dead Sea. The waters of this stream will heal the salty waters of the Dead Sea and make them fresh and pure.
NLT

XtnYoda, Shalomed