What God Thinks About Anthropogenic Global Warming
By Kevin Roeten (08/26/08)
Do all the Christians know what God thinks about man causing the earth to warm? Believing one has the power to affect an entire planet’s ecosystem is presumptuous at best and rashly arrogant at worst. God is either laughing at the sheer audacity of such an endeavor, or crying at the outcome of such egotistical actions. Are some of us telling God that man is in charge now?
A Supreme Being designing an idyllic habitat seems to be the obvious explanation. Without going into physics, Stephen Hawking (renown physicist) wrote: “If the rate of expansion of the big bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, the universe would have re-collapsed before it ever reached its present state.”
One fundamental number we’re reminded about is the proton. It is exactly 1836 times heavier than the electron. If that number were different, the required molecules would not form. There would be no chemistry, no life, and no scientists to wonder about it.
God awaits our conclusions. The historic evidence of a moderate, natural 1,500-year climate cycle includes Roman writings, Egypt’s early Nile flood records, and ancient Chinese court documents. The scientific evidence confirming this cycle has been literally “dug up” in the past 25 years.
We know that sunspot appearances have an 11 year cycle, which directly affect gamma ray radiation, which affect cloud cover, which affect global warming. We know the earth has a tilt, its orbit is not a perfect circle, the sun is actually a variable star, and a myriad of other variables that have been set in motion.
Going further back, we find the “little ice age” of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when the Hudson and the Thames froze, crops failed, and disease was rampant. Before that, we come upon the “medieval climate optimum” when a prevailing warmth made life pleasant, grape vines grew in England, and the Vikings established settlements in Greenland and Newfoundland.
There was an explosion of life forms 550 million years ago in the Cambrian Period when CO2 levels were 18 times higher than today, and in the Jurassic Period (when dinosaurs roamed) CO2 levels were as much as nine times higher.
It’s true that windmills, ethanol, waves/tides, and solar collectors can generate electricity. But it’s difficult to pour their energy into vehicles. The manufacture of ethanol actually produces more CO2 than gasoline use, and contains 50% less available heat. Windmills usually stop when there’s little wind.
One would think God would know of the alleged shortage of oil, and He would devise a way oil could be produced almost indefinitely. The 1970’s scientific theory called Hubbert’s Peak Oil predicted we would exhaust oil reserves by 2003. But counter intuitively, many oil fields have reported increased production.
Evidence for “abiotic” oil (Science) has been popping up in some strange places. “Abiotic” means formation of oil without biological decay over millions of years. Evidence such as finding oil at 30,000 feet, far below 18,000 feet where organic matter disappears; and some inoperative wells that are pumping significantly more barrels than earlier. But the oft-overlooked “coup-de-grace”: the amount of oil pumped to date, cannot be accounted for by matter from ancient forests and dinosaurs.
Oil from numerous sources has been verified to partially be from a geologically different age than the original sources. Scientists are finding the carbon-13 isotope associated with “abiotic” origin together with carbon-12 associated with biotic origin. Remarkably, as drilling techniques are allowing for deeper drilling, huge quantities of oil deposits are being discovered. Lately, huge finds are in the territories of Canada, Mexico, Bolivia, Venezuela, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Russia, and the US.
In 2005 Congress passed the Energy Policy Act, requiring the Department of the Interior to inventory the oil resources in US territory. The nation’s untapped oil resources totaled 139 billion barrels. Interior’s Mineral Management Services reported that just the offshore portion (85.9 billion barrels) is more than the proven oil in Venezuela, and more than the proven oil in Russia, Oman, Qatar, and Bahrain combined.
If Someone could think of the most efficient planet that could exist, He would probably think of animals that would consume oxygen and expel carbon dioxide, while at the same time having all vegetation consume carbon dioxide but expel oxygen. He would think of an environment with temperature variances, but limitless energy sources. It certainly looks like we got that planet.
People still claim global warming is a threat when the earth is now in a decade old cooling cycle. Many forget the passage in Genesis (8:21) when God told Noah after the flood, “Never again will I doom the earth because of man…”
Kevin Roeten
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