First question of the day is, what is Climate Change? Because it was Global Warming, until the recent cooling cycle (closely related to the Sun getting cooler, as it does in cycles). Now it's Climate Change.
From Wikipedia:
“Climate change threatens people with food and water scarcity, increased flooding, extreme heat, more disease, and economic loss. Human migration and conflict can be a result. The World Health Organization (WHO) calls climate change the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century.”
So, let's look at the claims that have been made concerning this impending disaster and what has actually happened.
Claims like Greta Thunberg's: “Around 2030 we will be in a position to set off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control that will lead to the end of our civilization as we know it.” or AOC's: “The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change.” are not new. We have been facing these for the last several decades of climate alarmism. However, do not let the facts get in the way of the agenda. It's not like climate change is 13,260% less responsible for Human death since 1920. That's right, Climate related deaths have only DECREASED with the technological trappings of modernity, like electricity, central heating and cooling, and transportation for critical supplies.
However, not everyone is so fortunate. According to the WHO, roughly 2.6 billion people are still forced to cook with solid fuels (biomass, dung, and other wastes.) This results in an estimated 3.8 million deaths per year, about the same as what the WHO attributes to “outdoor air pollution”.
These are the same people who can barely get enough food to eat, food that we often use for “Biofuel” projects. Dr. Indur M. Goklany in his 2010 paper on the subject linked 192,000 excess deaths to the growth of “Biofuel”. He compared the deaths to the 141,000 estimated excess deaths that year attributed to Global Warming by the WHO. These people need energy, food, and working logistics more than they need virtue signals.
While trillions are being poured into solar and wind to make them cheaper (and they are becoming cheaper), these sources are not reliable nor usable in all environments. In the Texas freeze of 2021, there were many factors in play. One of which was a lack of proper grid management, noted, but at least the non-winterized natural gas and coal produced some energy, while the frozen windmills were still.
I have no qualms with clean energy. I've worked in this sector and have patents in solar. I want clean energy as much as the next person. However, the Paris Climate Accords and Kyoto Protocol will only stifle development if enforced by organizations like the UN. The Kyoto Protocol was certainly not enforced upon nations like China or India, even though they are grossly more to blame for pollutants than the United States of America. The US of A actually decreased emissions while deregulating under Trump's Era.
The other issue is that we have seen these same claims made over and over again with conflicting claims of warming vs cooling depending upon what decade we are speaking of. Let's go back, shall we, to the claims that have been made over the last few decades:
1. 1967 Dire Famine Forecast By 1975
2. 1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969)
3. 1970: Ice Age By 2000
4. 1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980
5. 1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030
6. 1972: New Ice Age By 2070
7. 1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast
8. 1974: Another Ice Age?
9. 1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life (data and graph)
10. 1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent
11. 1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes (additional link)
12. 1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend (additional link)
13. 1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s
14. 1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs
15. 1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they're not)
16. 1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000
17. 1989: New York City's West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it's not)
18. 2000: Children Won't Know what Snow Is
19. 2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don't Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy
20. 2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024
21. 2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018
22. 2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013
23. 2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World
24. 2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe'
25. 2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014
26. 2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015 (additional link)
27. 2014: Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos'
28. 1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
29. 1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources
30. 1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years
31. 1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years
32. 1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 1990s
33. 1980: Peak Oil In 2000
34. 1996: Peak Oil in 2020
35. 2002: Peak Oil in 2010
36. 2006: Super Hurricanes!
37. 2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015
38. 1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985
39. 1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
40. 1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish
41. 1970s: Killer Bees!
And there are more at the link attached!
Also, the “97% of climate scientists concede that man-made climate change is real and will kill us all” is not only misleading, it is flatly false. Many of those scientists protest Climate Alarmism. Forbes did a debunk piece on this here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexepstein/2015/01/06/97-of-climate-scientists-agree-is-100-wrong/?sh=611fb1f13f9f 97% of climate scientists agree that man made pollution, presence, and other factors have an influence on the climate. This does not mean that they believe that we should leave those who cannot afford solar and wind infrastructure behind by demanding that they do not use fossil fuels. All of us want human flourishing. If you look at the evidence that they present in the article above, you will see that man made emissions directly coincide with increased lifespan and longevity.
On a more Biblical note, the World will not end in anything other than the events of Revelation. Is Climate Change a part of that? Maybe, but maybe in a more insidious way than some would imagine. With all of the shifting goal posts we have seen to this point, we must realize that there is an ulterior motive at play here. There obviously is and we know that those lawmakers who push the climate agenda want a one world system. This is the system that the Beast will use to persecute the Church and attempt an unsuccessful coup against God Himself.
With the facts in mind and at hand, let us move forward with knowledge and in the Spirit to relieve those who are in fear on this topic. We should be able to do this in love and in a manner that is winsome so that others may come to know the Truth.