Hot Air

The November issue of Citizen magazine has an interesting article on global warming. I will share a few exerpts.

. . . temperatures fell from the mid 1940's to the mid 1970's. An April 28, 1975 Newsweek article warned that falling temperatures could cut food production, and "the resulting famines could be catastrophic." One scientist said the drop had "taken the planet about a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age average". An extreme idea was to cover the polar ice cap with soot to melt it. "The longer the planners delay, the more difficult they will find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality."
Prof. William Gray (CSU) says, "Everyone looks out the rearview mirror, they think if it's changing, it's going to keep changing." The temperature then began to climb from the 1970's to now. No worldwide famine. No Ice Age.
Instead, the April 3, 2006 Time magazine cover showed a sad-looking polar bear on a melting hunk of ice. The headline: "BE WORRIED, BE VERY WORRIED. Climate change isn't some vague future problem-it's already damaging the planet at an alarming pace. Here's how it affects you, your kids and their kids as well."

Scare tactics and twisted science.

Most scientists now agree it's warmer than it was in 1900, although precisely how much is still up for debate. "It's on the order of about a degree Fahrenheit( Richard Lindzen, meteorologist, MIT). It is much smaller than computer climate models predict we should have seen for the amount of CO2 that has been added."

It's all about politics.

Scientists tell me my farm was once covered with a thick layer of ice - the Illinois Glaciation. Global warming happened, the glacier melted, and left a fertile layer of loess on my farm along with a temperate climate. My farm is now part of the breadbasket of the world! Since man wasn't around to get blamed for it, God must be responsible, for which I am grateful. I believe God, though his creation of all things, is also responsible for any warming( or cooling) that is or isn't taking place now.

I do believe that there will be catastrophic global warming someday.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. (2 Peter 3:10)

I have made plans not to be here to see it!