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Written by James Heiser Wednesday, 30 September 2009 14:00
Climate change and global warming
As reported previously, the internationalists and environmental extremists have placed a great deal of stock in the upcoming U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. With Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon shrilling warning of an “abyss,” and conference planners apparently counting on the political “movers and shakers” delivering their nations to the Copenhagen agenda, there’s just one really big problem: the environment is refusing to get with the program. A report at RightSideNews.com documents the growing disparity between the estimates of the environmentalist “doomsayers” and the actual numbers. The United Nations is pulling out the "big guns" in an attempt to create a climate of urgency about climate change so that the meeting of over one hundred world leaders in Copenhagen some 75 days from now can produce an agreement to replace the failed Kyoto accord. Nature, however, is not co-operating. Average global temperature is rising at 1.40C per century, not the 3.90C indicated by the IPPC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] models. We are in the seventh year of global cooling. Sea levels, despite messages to the contrary, are rising at normal rates — eight inches per century — much less than the IPPC models suggested. There has been no significant rise in sea levels over the last four years. Arctic sea ice, currently in its summer state, is more extensive in 2009 than it was in 2007 and 2008. Antarctic sea ice is at record high. Global sea ice shows relative stability over the last thirty years. While CO2 levels are rising, the rate of growth has slowed considerably — the IPPC suggested that CO2 levels would grow at around 468 parts per million (ppm) per century, when in fact the observed growth in CO2 is 204 ppm per century — less than half of the IPPC model suggestion. Hurricane activity, which does not appear to be connected to CO2 emissions, is at the lowest level since satellite monitoring and observation began in 1979. In the Northern Hemisphere, hurricane activity is currently one of the quietest in a decade. Reefs off the Keppel Islands on Australia's Great Barrier Reef have shown rapid recovery of coral dominance, despite repeated coral bleaching events that many ascribe to CO2-induced global warming. All in all, nature does not seem to be co-operating with Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki Moon and the climate change negotiators. Czech President Vaclav Klaus had the integrity to draw attention to the “propagandistic” efforts to push an environmental agenda which cannot be supported by scientific data, but Klaus worried, "The train can't be stopped and I consider that a huge mistake"— in other words, regardless of the facts, the upcoming Copenhagen conference was likely to press forward with sweeping environmental regulations. Undeniably, the forces behind the conference believe that this is their “moment”: Washington is dominated by the leadership which is more favorable to their agenda than any in our nation’s history. Pressure is mounting for a wide variety of initiatives which would mean profound shifts in the entire global economy, and the balance of power in the world. With pressure for a global system of “carbon credits,” redistribution of wealth from the first world to the third world, at the same time that ‘trial balloons’ are going up for a global currency (other than the U.S. dollar), and an American president who wants a G-20 to run the global economy and environment, the stakes are even higher than usual. What threatens to derail the “train” (to use Klaus’ analogy) are the scientific facts, and the state of the economy. Mr. Obama’s “hope and change” schtick has worn thin with the muddled middle of the American body politic, as unemployment continues to soar and the deficits explode. Put plainly, you can’t spend trillions of dollars in deficit spending, nationalize health care, fight two wars, institute a “cap and trade” system of taxation which threatens to cripple the country with even greater economic burdens on every household and then expect people to feel all warm and fuzzy about another round of such nonsense for an (at best) exaggerated environmental issue. Most politicians are survivors, not ideologues, and if they perceive this “train” to be coming off the “rails” you may see more of them trying to get out of harm’s way. Rt. Rev. James Heiser has served as Pastor of Salem Lutheran Church in Malone, Texas, while maintaining his responsibilities as publisher of Repristination Press, which he established in 1993 to publish academic and popular theological books to serve the Lutheran Church. Heiser has also served since 2005 as the Dean of Missions for The Augustana Ministerium and in 2006 was called to serve as Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America (ELDoNA). An advocate of manned space exploration, Heiser serves on the Steering Committee of the Mars Society. His publications include two books; The Office of the Ministry in N. Hunnius' Epitome Credendorum (1996) and A Shining City on a Higher Hill: Christianity and the Next New World (2006), as well as dozens of journal articles and book reviews.
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