Faith and Science
Cooling to Global Warming
by Clay Staggs
Believe it or not, even the BBC is admitting that, for the past 10 years, the earth has not gotten any warmer. Read it all here.
If Al Gore is right, how is this possible? The Beeb article blames La Nina, but that doesn’t seem very persuasive to me. After all, if we’re warming the plant so with our rapacious appetite for all things CO2-generating that we’re melting the ice caps and killing the polar bears, then how can the Pacific Ocean possibly cool down - even cool down enough to cool the planet?
Moreover, there have been nothing but increases in the worldwide production of CO2 for the last 10 years. Yet, no warming? One might be tempted to think that one had nothing to do with the other.
The Beeb assures us with the pontifications of many climate change luminaries that this is merely an aberrant year (or decade - whatever), and that soon we’ll have a really, really hot year. Wow - who could possibly foresee that?
Looking at this from my perspective as a Christian who believes that God is sovereign over his creation, this is all a bunch of hooey. Who will thwart the will of God? If God intends for an ice age to come over the earth (as it has in the past - before anthropogenic C02 production, mind you), all the greenhouse gases in the universe won’t stop it. Moreover, the arrogance of man to think that he (a) understands the intricate workings of all the forces (literally ranging from outer space to the depths of the oceans) that affect climate and (b) can change that climate is mind-boggling.
Posted by Clay Staggs at April 4, 2008 10:10 AM