In addressing the public perception of Anthropogenic Global Warming, this nine-part article considers evidence from the Bible and from simple scientific principles to prove that catastrophic man-made global warming is neither catastrophic, man-made or even global and that the God of creation is in full control of the climate today, just as He was at the beginning of time.
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I believe, however, that there is another reason, a more sinister reason, why CO2 has emerged as the scapegoat for Global Warming. As referred to earlier, there is genuine consensus that CO2 has risen consistently over the last 200 years. The blue line on the graph below represents an accurate plot of that increase from 1959 to 2007. That’s how long atmospheric CO2 has been scientifically measured for, less than 50 years!
The data is taken from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, and the increase can be clearly seen. There’s no doubt about that, but remember, within the atmosphere it is an increase of only 0.008%. An increase that has caused mass hysteria over the concept of the carbon footprint, more specifically your carbon footprint. Many adverts on television carry a message about saving the environment, offsetting carbon emissions, providing a better tomorrow. We can’t really blame them, since they are simply giving people what they want, and that’s why they do it. People today are being bombarded with messages that carbon emissions are destroying the planet, and they’re soaking it in. But it simply isn’t true.
The earth needs carbon dioxide. Through the perfection of God’s creation, trees and plants produce their own food through a process known as photosynthesis:
We can see from the formula on the previous page that plants absorb carbon dioxide, water and light. Through photosynthesis they then produce their own food, glucose, releasing the excess oxygen molecules into the atmosphere, where yet again we can see God’s perfect hand of creation. A man can survive one whole month without food. He can survive a full week without water, yet he will only last 3 minutes without oxygen. We need to constantly breathe oxygen into our lungs to survive. We also need to constantly breathe out, but not oxygen this time. We, in fact, breathe out the supposed curse of all mankind, carbon dioxide.
The US Census Bureau keeps a record of the total population of the world each year. Taking the figures from 1959 to 2007 and plotting them in red alongside the blue line of atmospheric carbon dioxide on the previous page, we discover something very interesting. Carbon dioxide is increasing because the population of the world is increasing. Once again, this should not surprise us. Every human being on earth breathes out almost half a tonne of carbon dioxide each year of their lives. Half a tonne weight of gas. That’s a lot of carbon dioxide!
The IPCC tells us that carbon dioxide is destroying the planet, but it doesn’t make any sense. We’ve already seen what a small contribution CO2 makes to the balance of the atmosphere. We’ve noticed that the Sun controls temperature increase and decrease on every planet in the solar system. So why blame carbon? It just doesn’t make any sense.
From the very beginning of time the devil has questioned every command of God. Genesis 3:1.
This is the first time we read of the devil in the Bible. Appearing as a serpent, he casts doubt upon God’s command not to eat the fruit of the tree. Hath God said? This commandment of God was the second ever given to man, with the first appearing back in Genesis chapter 1, after God breathed the breath of life into His new creation. Genesis 1:27-28.
The first commandment given to man in this scene of time was to be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth. The book of Isaiah tells us that God formed the earth to be inhabited. That was its purpose, and that is why the devil is seeking to make men and women think that carbon dioxide is destroying the earth. Successfully convincing the human race that CO2 is harming the very world that they worship, leaves the door wide open for the powers of wickedness to attack the command of God in Genesis 1:28. Incidentally, the word subdue in this verse means ‘to trample under foot’. The Bible never commands man to be a steward of the earth. That is a lie that has been fabricated through environmentalist ideas to argue the point that a Christian’s responsibility is to the earth. It is not. The command we are given is to subdue the earth. This full command was given to all mankind. Adam and Eve were not going to replenish the earth all on their own, so the command here is clearly for all mankind. Another fabricated argument is that Adam was told to dress and to keep the garden of Eden, therefore we must look after the earth. It is of course true that Adam was told to dress and keep the garden (Genesis 2:15), but that command was for Adam alone. God had given him a job. The Bible states that if a man will not work, then he shall not eat, and this was Adam’s job, but that is all it was. Stewardship of the earth is not a Biblical concept. It is a concept developed by those with a similar mind to the people of Romans 1:25 who...
...changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator.
We are to subdue the earth, not protect it. Protecting the earth is God’s job.
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