“The LORD
watches over you—
the LORD is your shade at your right hand. . .” Psalm 121
What he told the world is that since 1895, American news sources have alternated dire warnings about our changing climate. For
almost forty years prior to the Great Depression, most opinion-makers touted
the present danger of a returning ice age.
And that’s not all. What he said is that arch-political
scientists and their friends in the news media have beating the drum about
global warming for years now, when there is no such phenomena—or, if there is,
it’s nothing more than a temporary shift, our climate and planet far more
dynamic than some would think.
What he claimed has been proved,
beyond a shadow of a doubt, is that the so-called “hockey stick,” the heavily
reported spike in climate temperatures throughout the 20th century
after thousands of years of constancy, has been proven totally false by
Canadian researchers who simply tore it apart.
That spike is phony baloney.
What he told all of us is that the
National Academy of Science has shown conclusively that humanity has suffered
through minor climate changes before, that what is called “the Medieval Warm
Period” (900 A.D. to 1500 A.D.) and “the Little Ice Age” (1500 to 1850) are
bona fide proof of natural and sustainable climate variations—and that
therefore the propaganda about “global warming” today is just hype and hooey.
What he said is that the Arctic
isn’t warming but cooling. He’s reminded
us all that sixty prominent Canadian scientists sent a letter to the Canadian
Prime Minister, saying that “'Climate change is real' is a meaningless
phrase used repeatedly by activists to convince the public that a climate
catastrophe is looming and humanity is the cause. Neither of these fears is
justified. Global climate changes occur all the time due to natural causes and
the human impact still remains impossible to distinguish from this natural
'noise.'"
He
claimed that restraining so-called greenhouse gases has real economic costs,
stifling business activity and a bustling economy, and therefore hindering
progress in dealing with world poor. He
quoted this headline, "Climate Changes
Endanger World's Food Output," called alarmist and dangerous, and then pointed
out that it ran in the New York Times
in 1975, thirty years ago.
He
is a senator, and the speech he delivered, years ago already, is much longer,
full of facts and documented anecdotes and references to studies.
I have neither the time nor the
competence to study the issue of global warming thoroughly, and whether the
Senator is even partially right, scientists themselves appear to disagree. So the nature of the question changes in my
circumstance: it’s not “what do you
believe about global warming?” Instead,
it’s “who do you believe?”
And I choose not to believe the Senator.
I choose to believe instead a list as long as my arm of people who radically
disagree with his claims, my friends, scientists. I may be wrong.
But I also choose to believe the
psalmist when he says—with nary a hint of global warming—that this God of his
(who’s apparently at his right hand armed with a parasol) is watching over all
of us—polar meltdown or coming ice age, and that this God, my God, is my shade
from all kinds of heat. That truth is transcendent.
He is my only comfort—in both deathly cold January and the dog days of mid-July. He is my only comfort. That I know by faith.
He is my only comfort—in both deathly cold January and the dog days of mid-July. He is my only comfort. That I know by faith.
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