Some scientists and other doomsayers such as Al Gore have been telling us that our use of fossil fuel is causing the earth to get warmer. They call us to give up our American way of life and get back to nature by walking, riding bicycles, and just staying home when we don't have to go out and drive.
My sister and brother-in-law recently saw Al Gore's hyperbolistic fictional documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," and are now quite worried that their country (Bangladesh) will be completely under water in the next 10 years.
I have found a method to eliminate some meaningless chatter and worry from my life. Whenever a liberal speaks, I assume that they are lying and accept whatever they say as a lie. That way I don't have to worry about figuring out what their agenda is or what actual truth may lie at the bottom of their never-ending agenda-driven falsehoods. So I did not waste any time watching Al Gore's movie. But my sister and her husband did and were taken in by the things that have already been proven false by many others.
On the other side of this issue, many conservative talking heads and some religious leaders have disputed the global warming concept. Since these folks typically have a strong political agenda also, even though I agree with them much of the time, I can't completely accept their assessment at face value.
So is there global warming or not?
Professor Bill Gray of Colorado State University says that global warming exists but that it is not caused by us. This is an interesting middle ground between the two opposing sides.
As Christians, we know that global climate change was predicted nearly 2,000 years ago by the Apostle John—some of which you may read in the callout box to the right.
I don't know if global warming exists at all or if it is the preparation for this intense heat that will be part of the Great Tribulation, but it certainly may be. And if it is, then those who are pushing the Global Warming agenda are pawns in Satan's deceptive plan.
And I think Professor Gray has it right. We are not as important as we like to think. God is still in control of the temperature. And man should tremble in fear of Almighty God instead of congratulating himself on how much damage he has done to the planet.
What about the evidence that some speculate could mean that the magnetic poles are getting ready to shift? Magnetic North may be getting ready to jump into magnetic South as is indicated happened once or twice before based on geologic findings. Maybe all this weather (of which we only have approx 100 years of data tracking) has something to do with the earth's own self-protective measures???? If there is such a thing? Who knows but God?
ReplyDeleteWow - that's interesting, Cindy. I've never heard of that. Where can I find out more about that? (Other than a Google search, which would mean I would actually have to do work.)
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Richard,
ReplyDeleteOf course! Wikipedia has a little bit -- the source of all evolving information sans critical peer review.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal
There are some eccentrics that believe that it is accelerating faster than other people will admit. I've read some weird and obscure things about it as a result of reading on Tectonic Stress Theory and geomagnetic effects on consciousness, increases in spiritual experiences and UFO reportings. The brain vibrates at roughly 7 Hz when in the alpha state as does the earth most of the time. There are those with theories that sun spot cycles cause a disruption of that wavelength which is thought to effect people's behavior. We are experiencing an unusually low level of sunspot activity now as the sun gets ready to ramp up into a cycle of high activity.
Michael Persinger says that people with very sensitive temporal lobes get thrown off and will have more spiritual experiences and "felt sense" experience of God's presence. Cults do a lot of recruiting and grow during these seasons. There is also a peak in UFO reports which Persinger of Laurentian U in Ontario somewhere believes that this is due not to extraterrestrials but a right brain experiencing of felt sense and a creative visiualization of the homunculus. It is a diagram of a man with a cartoon depicting how many sensory and motor nerves are devoted to a particular body part. The face and hands are very large: http://www.psywww.com/intropsych/ch02_human_nervous_system/homunculus.html
Light reading in my spare time...
See - Proof positive of the peas-in-a-pod theory. You read about geothermal trends and I read Dilbert.
ReplyDeleteMy husband LOVES Dilbert! And that's about all I can contribute to this conversation.
ReplyDeleteAnd how do you know that I don't read Dilbert?
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