Personally I never found any anything compelling about the global warming hypothesis just like I rejected the global cooling and overpopulation hype in the Seventies. I'm pretty sure the repeated and rotating scare memes are a cause of my disenchantment with socialist philosophy.
By the way, where are all those global cooling, overpopulation experts...oh yeah, they are the senior statesmen of the global warming faith. Wow, that should probably tell me something.
What I do accept as fact, however, is global climate change. I don't mean the change of seasons either. That there are strange events occuring is beyond question. What does happen, rather than tending toward the mean as I would expect, seem to be deviating more and more often toward the extremes. Hot times are hotter, cold times are colder, storms stronger, droughts longer, typical weather for the season is less frequent, even the moderate days are out of place (though not always unwelcome).
This is just the weather. The same trends are notable in other events: earthquakes, volcanos, politics, culture, etc.
Add it all up it sums to a lot of changes and strangeness - all of it caused by man.
Yes, you read that right, I blame all of the climate changes on us - not in the sense that the defenders of Gaia do because nothing man does to the material earth has any permanent effect.
There are higher order effects, though, that have little to do with slash and burn, carbon output or nuclear reactors. Here is where they began:
17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Genesis 3:17-19.
And the result:
"We know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body."—Romans 8:22-23.
We are housed in a body of death. We live in a dying world. Is it any wonder that the same decay and deterioration which we are subject to as individual persons also plagues our planet?
So when Jesus says in Luke:
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. Luke 21:11
There can be no doubt: the gyrations of weather and climate were caused by man.
Jesus told us more than just the coming of unusual weather, he warned us how it would be used, what would happen to us, and our hope for the future.
21:7 And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?
21:8 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.
21:9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
21:10 Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:
21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
21:12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.
21:13 And it shall turn to you for a testimony.
21:14 Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:
21:15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
21:16 And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.
21:17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.
21:18 But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
21:19 In your patience possess ye your souls.
21:20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
21:21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
21:22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
21:23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
21:26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
21:27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
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