It’s only seven days into the year 2023, and I’m already sick
of how many times so-called “climate change” has come up in both public and
private conversations. Mainstream media “reminds” its viewers and listeners that
the severe winter storms that have swept across the face of the continent are a
result of Climate Change (which I will shorten to CC for the remainder of this
blog). A friend in Michigan, who has lived there for decades, bemoans the
result of CC on her locality; every snowflake is “evidence” that man has
irreparably damaged our beloved planet.
Several years ago, I was trudging up a rather steep sidewalk
in the middle of a very hot afternoon. The person who walked beside me started
to rage against CC deniers (of which, then as now, I was one). She stated that she
blamed the government for “allowing” the CC controversy to get more and more “out
of hand.” Although I wasn’t about to halt my walk in the severe heat (all I
wanted to do was to reach my destination and to escape the heat), I did manage
to get out the following answer:
“Nonsense.”
Startled, my companion turned to me and began to chide me.
“How can you say that? Everyone knows…”
I immediately interjected, “That money does nothing to affect
the sun.”
Temporarily taken aback, she sputtered.
“What…?”
“Let’s be clear,” I said. “CC cannot happen apart from the
action of the sun. The earth revolves around the sun, and therefore is moved or
influenced by this burning ball of helium. So someone who wants to affect CC must
have some way of affecting the sun. There is a lot of money being claimed by
government in order to ‘solve’ CC. How is this money going to influence the
sun?”
Crickets. Silence. We agreed to suspend the conversation.
The plain fact in all this is that CC is a false construct
in order to generate fear in the general population – both here and in
countries around the world. So-called “scientific” enquiries into higher /
lower / the same temperature data are essentially comparing apples to oranges.
If the world is billions of years old (their belief, not mine), how do we
ascertain when temperatures were at a certain level over that huge span of
time? According to evolutionists, when did life actually begin – and at what temperature?
Did man “evolve” when the temperature was “just right”? These questions reveal
the element of absurdity that is embedded in the entire “theory.”
In this day and age, scientists can produce all sorts of
data. But, logically speaking, if one asserts that there is an “Event A,” a lot
has to happen before one can link that event to “Event B” or even “Event C.” In
fact, in my (limited) study of statistically relevant data, the simplistic
linking of events in the whole CC drama strains believability. And yet the
whole CC hoax persists. Even Pope Francis, in his address to the UN in 2015,
amazingly used his considerable influence to proclaim that the “biggest threat
to mankind” was CC! (Whatever happened to sin and the salvation offered by the
sacrifice of Christ? Pope Francis, after all, is supposed to be the “Vicar of
Christ.”)
When I was a young girl, I experienced air conditioning only
in restaurants and shops. We had fans at our house, and we were encouraged to
drink water with ice cubes to cool down if we were excessively hot. When I was
a teenager, my father installed one air conditioner in one room
of our house – the room that housed the TV. Every other room – the kitchen and
our bedrooms included – did not have AC, and we dealt with it in our everyday
lives. I even went to a high school that did not have any air
conditioning in any classroom or meeting room (even the chapel). There were
fans, of course, but that was all. We were expected to wear our school uniforms
regardless of what temperature was all around us (and there was no such thing
as having water bottles on or near our desks). Yes, I was hot during the late
summer or late spring months, but so was everyone else.
Why do I bring this up? Because I believe that the entire CC
discourse is based on a false premise: we feel hotter, so we
(falsely) believe that it is the earth which is heating up. People
who grew up a half-century ago may welcome air conditioning, but they certainly
knew that we can survive without it. Generations born after the beginning of
the 21st century have no such experience, and so they (naively)
believe that the normal summer heat in areas of the world (especially the U.S.)
is oppressive and life-threatening. I submit to you that this perception of
greater heat is driving the entire narrative; the theory, though interesting,
is absolutely unsupported by relevant facts – and data, strictly
speaking, does not constitute “facts.” Facts must be historical
or verifiable by repeated experimentation. Where is
the repetition of data that might qualify in the latter criteria for facts?
I submit that data stretching over two or three decades does not offer such
verification.
CC has become a religion. It is an arrow in the quiver of
people who want to supplant God’s control over our planet. “Green energy” is a
myth; how many years have people burned wood over the millennia? Can science
demonstrate that that action shortened the lives of people? It can’t. Can
scientists state for certain how much oil or coal is hidden in the depths of
the earth? Again, “no” is the correct answer. We are not running out of traditional energy sources.
In the end, humanity must decide to pour its efforts into
feeding the people of this world, or to pour money into feeding the greed of
the elite. God has given us biblical permission to use the resources of our
world wisely (Genesis 1: 26 – 28); no one has the right to deny us the lawful
use of said resources, especially in the name of a bogus theory. God controls the sun, our solar system, and the earth; money has no power to affect these things.
