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Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with a

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moment of truth, where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith. And

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today, how settled is the settled science on climate change? Oh, we all know this is an important

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topic in our world because so many large sweeping actions are being taken by government

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and corporations in the name of saving the planet from the irresponsible actions of humans who are

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filling it with carbon dioxide and other pollutants, right? And so expensive and devastating are the

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prospects that very few people have coolly, rationally sat down to calculate them. And the hysteria to me

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is reminiscent of the chicken little fable in which an excitable hen is struck on the head by a falling

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acorn from a tree she passes under, but not perceiving immediately what had happened. This little hen

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convinces herself that this is evidence that the sky is falling. And in a fit of hysteria, she runs off

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to tell the king the sky is falling, the sky is falling. And on her way, she encounters many of

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the creatures of the kingdom whom she alarms with her hysterical rant, and that would be Rooster Booster,

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Ducky Chucky, Goosey Brucie, and Turkey Perky. To them, oh, she exclaims, she exclaims excitedly,

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the sky is falling, the sky is falling. And they all join her in her pilgrimage to the king where they

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meet Mr. Fox. The sky is falling, the sky is falling. And the fox persuades them to detour from

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their mission and join him in his lair to rest and refresh themselves. And of course, instead they are

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trapped and eaten long before they could reach the king. Behold, dear listener, the metaphor for the

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climate change alarmists among us. Chicken littles. They take evidence the size of an acorn and

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extrapolate it into the vast canopy of the universe that is the sky over our heads in which the planet's

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climate unfolds. The climate is changing, the climate is changing, and it's our fault, right?

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Ah, chicken littles. Before we charge off behind the hundreds of chicken littles like Al Gore or Klaus Schwab

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and Joe Biden and destroy our economies, alter our ways of life to our detriment, and then finally

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submit ourselves as slaves to the masters of the great reset who assert that they have the solutions

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to climate change. Before we do all this, perhaps we should examine a little more closely the so-called

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evidence for it. We already have evidence for the revelation of God's glory in creation. Psalm 19 says

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the heavens declare the glory of God, the sky above proclaims his handiwork. And we are charged by God

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with taking proper dominion of that creation. God says in Genesis 1, 28, God blessed them, that is Adam and

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Eve. And God said to them, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion

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over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves

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on earth. Unquote. Well, that dominion is one of care and nurture and fruitfulness, not wanton destruction

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or pillaging and raping of the earth. But neither is it a worship or reverencing of that earth either,

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a worship and reverence that is reserved for the earth's creator alone. Rather, this dominion is a

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careful, knowledgeable husbanding of that earth and her resources for the glory of God, including

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assuring us of clean air, clean water, and food. And this includes our own planet's atmosphere too,

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by the way, to ensure these things. And this calls for wisdom in assessing whether global warming is

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in fact true and whether we can do anything constructive to alter it if there is any truth

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to it at all. Well, let me begin with a succinct summary of the efforts to make the case for climate

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change. And this was written by a journalist and researcher, a man named David Siegel, who wrote a

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carefully documented essay for the journal Signs of the Times. And he is a former climate change alarmist

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who says in the essay that he's a Democrat, a vegan who cares for the environment, he loves animals,

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and he hasn't owned a car in 10 years. So he's no meat-eating, knuckle-dragging, coal-burning

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industrialist like me who wants to make a wasteland of Mother Earth. And I really don't want to make a

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wasteland of Mother Earth. No. Yet, David Siegel became persuaded that the science behind the

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climate change movement, which is really global warming, rebranded and repurposed. Yes, this idea

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of global warming slash global climate change is just not there, the evidence for it, he says.

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He says, and I quote him, as I learned more, I changed my mind. I now think there probably is

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no climate crisis and that the focus on carbon dioxide takes funding and attention from critical

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environmental problems, unquote. That's David Siegel. And he lists 10 facts that should challenge

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everyone's assumption about the climate change debate. Let me go through those now. Number one,

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he says, weather is not climate. Weather is not climate. A very important point to make.

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There are no studies, he says, showing a conclusive link between global warming and increased frequency

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or intensity of storms, droughts, floods, cold, or heat waves, right? Now, this is a very important

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point, and it deserves to be number one. Chicken littles scream, climate change, climate change,

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every time there's a hurricane, heat wave, or snowstorm. But they commit the fallacy of confusing

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weather for climate in doing so. On their website, NASA defines the difference between the two like

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this. They say, the difference between weather and climate is a measure of time. Weather is what

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conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere behaves

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over relatively long periods of time, unquote. For example, meteorologists measure temperature

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over days and perhaps trends for the week. That's weather. Climatologists measure temperature averages

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over perhaps a 30-year period as a relatively short measure of duration. That's climate.

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Even within that longer period of 30 years, one region can have wide fluctuations in temperature

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or rainfall, and yes, even carbon dioxide levels. Climate, as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric

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Administration says, climate is what you expect, weather is what you get. That's a good brief

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definition between the two, right? Distinction between the two. Climate is what you expect,

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and weather is what you get. So when, for example, California Governor Gavin Newsom stood in front of

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one of the scenes of California's wildfires in 2020 and said, oh, that the debate was over about climate

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change. Well, he was committing this precise fallacy. Confusing weather, which was hot and dry for the

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summer in California, creating ideal conditions for wildfires, he was confusing weather with climate,

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in which there was no discernible change over a longer period of time in California. But Newsom wanted

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to score a political point. He was at the Democratic National Convention, and he criticized Donald Trump

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for not doing anything about climate change. Well, this is typical. Chicken littles do this all the time,

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but they're wrong, and they confuse the debate. Not every hurricane, tornado, or severe snowstorm is

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evidence of climate change or global warming. Weather is not climate. Well, point two that Siegel makes

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is a direct corollary to point number one. And point number two is natural variation in weather and

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climate is tremendous. Oh, that's what we have to keep in mind. Natural variation in weather and climate

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is tremendous. Most of what people call global warming is natural, Siegel says. The earth is warming,

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but not quickly, not much, and not lately, he says. And that attributable to man and his activities,

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which is called anthropogenic, the climate change attributable to man, which is called anthropogenic,

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is almost negligible. Almost everyone agrees that the earth's climate is warming, but it's doing so in a

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natural cyclical fashion that should not alarm any chicken. According to NASA, the earth has warmed

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one degree Celsius since about 1750, the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Chicken littles say it's

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because of man's dumping of CO2 into the atmosphere through fossil fuels over that time. But sane

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climatologists assert that it is no more than the natural 1500 year warming and cooling cycle

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for the atmosphere over the last million years. And anthropogenic global warming is vanishingly small,

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perhaps less than 0.01 degrees Celsius. And consequently, the destruction of Western civilization

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to lower the earth's temperature by 0.01 degree is absolutely senseless. Well, the third point he makes

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is about the global climate change, so-called. He says, number three, there is tremendous uncertainty

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as to how the climate really works. Oh, and that's so true. Behind all the bravado, there is tremendous

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uncertainty as to how the climate really works. Climate models are not yet skillful, Siegel says.

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Predictions are unresolved. And I say, chicken little global warming alarmists are as confident of their

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faulty climate models as chicken little was of the acorn that hit her in the head. And they're as

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confident that they're both are true models, that the sky was falling, right? But do they have reason to

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be so confident? For example, the models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,

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which is really one of the authoritative sources for what we need to do in climate change,

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the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, upon which the United Nations bases all of its radical

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recommendations for a mediating global warming, they are all oversensitive. All of these models

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are oversensitive, and they overpredict global warming in response to anthropogenic greenhouse gas

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emissions. And that's according to Dr. Roy Spencer, who is a former climatologist at NASA. In other

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words, there's a built-in bias towards global warming, which tilts the evidence towards anthropogenic

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global warming, man-caused global warming. And it is entirely unwarranted. Another model of climate

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change used by the IPCC and Al Gore, famously in his book, An Inconvenient Truth, is Michael Mann's,

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hockey stick graph, which shows a dramatic rise in our climate's temperature over the period of the

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Industrial Revolution, implicating man's polluting influence. And of course, many scientists, however,

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have since proven his model an absolute fraud. As Mike Adams points out, he says, and I quote,

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rigged to produce a hockey stick shape no matter what data were entered, unquote. Climate modeling is a

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demonstrably flawed discipline. It is impossible to factor in every variable into a man-made software

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algorithm. Nature is far more complex than any model man may aspire to construct, especially when

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that man has an agenda he's trying to set for the whole of mankind. Rather, we should look to how God

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has made his complex creation. And David says in Psalm 19, the heavens declare the glory of God and the

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firmament showeth his handiwork. Number four, the fourth point that Siegel makes is that new research

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shows fluctuations in energy from the sun. They correlate very strongly with changes in earth's temperature

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better than carbon dioxide levels. Yes, it's the sun that's the driver, in other words, of increases in

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earth's temperature. And it only makes sense. What the science shows is that the sun, that, you know,

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big hot fireball in the sky, the sun is the driver of global warming and cooling, even being the factor in

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the production of carbon dioxide. For example, the waning and waxing of sunspots using just one factor,

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the waning and waxing of sunspots have far more to do with global warming and cooling than anthropogenic

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activity. But just as chicken little would have you believe that an acorn is evidence that the sky is

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falling, so climate chicken littles would have you believe that anthropogenic CO2 is the cause of

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global warming. Don't be fooled, dear listener. Never forget that God gave us the sun as the driver of

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our planet's life. As Psalm 19 says again, it's rising, that is the sun, from the end of the heavens

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and its circuit to the end of them, and there is nothing hidden from its heat. Number five, the fifth

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point that Siegel makes is that carbon dioxide has very little to do with global warming. Yes, in the

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end, at the end of the day, carbon dioxide has very little to do with global warming. All the

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decarbonization we can do isn't going to change the climate much, right? For example, what's the largest

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greenhouse gas contributor in our atmosphere? Is it carbon dioxide? No, no, it's water vapor. While carbon

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dioxide accounts for only 0.04%, 0.04% of the atmosphere, water vapor accounts for as much as

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4% of it, making it the chief greenhouse gas, water vapor, not carbon dioxide. And the Herculean effort

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it would take to meet the UN's climate goals, that is, lowering the temperature, average temperature of the

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Earth by 1.5 degree centigrade by 2050, by decarbonizing all human activity. That would require

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multiple trillions of dollars and the destruction of modern industrial civilization to do it. And for

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what? A minuscule effect on the environment. And many scientists as well believe that even then,

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the goal is really impossible of achievement. And Dr. Chavid, in an article he did for Science Bits,

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does indeed confess this. And then, even if we were able to pull it off, would have very little effect

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on the environment. And yet, the chicken littles among us persist with their hysterical plans to

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get the king to acknowledge that the sky is falling and do something about it, right? The sixth point,

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then, that Siegel makes is that there is no such thing as carbon pollution. There is no such thing as

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carbon pollution. No. Carbon dioxide is coming out of your nose right now, he says. And it's not a

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poisonous gas. Carbon dioxide concentrations in previous areas, eras, excuse me, in previous eras,

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have been many times higher than they are today. That's what Siegel has to say. Well, the chicken

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littles of climate change have done a masterful job of convincing the rest of us that carbon dioxide is a

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dangerous gas and pollutant that must be eliminated from the atmosphere. How silly, how silly. There's a great

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exchange between flora and fauna on the earth that involves oxygen and carbon dioxide. Remember from high

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school biology, plant life takes up life-giving carbon dioxide as a life-giving nutrient and exhales oxygen

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as a waste byproduct. And animal life, on the other hand, inhales, if you will, oxygen as a life-giving

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nutrient and exhales carbon dioxide as a waste byproduct. This is a mutuality. In doing so,

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each kingdom serves the other, the flora and the fauna. In fact, there have been periods in earth's

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history when carbon dioxide levels have been far, far higher, resulting in not only flourishing plant

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life covering the planet, but also due to a consequent higher oxygen level in the atmosphere, a more

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flourishing animal life and population. For example, during the Jurassic period, about 250 million years

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ago, carbon dioxide levels were five times higher than they are today. And the dinosaurs flourished. The

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species of plant life were wild and numberless and extensive. Higher carbon dioxide levels made the earth

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warmer and moister, encouraging life, not killing it. Oh, the Lord is good to his earth, dear listener.

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The Lord is good to his earth. Let us not arrogate its control to ourselves. Oh, Lord, Psalm 104 says,

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Oh, Lord, how manifold are your works. In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your

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creatures. Here's the sea, great and wide, which teems with creatures innumerable, living things both

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small and great. When you send forth your spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the

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ground. From Psalm 104. Well, the seventh point indeed that he makes is, that David Siegel makes in

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his essay is number seven, sea level will probably continue to rise. It's going to happen whatever we

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do. Sea level will probably continue to rise. And he goes on to say, not quickly and not much.

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Researchers have found no link between carbon dioxide and sea level. Yes. Oh, so dear listener,

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I discovered that scientists have observed that there is a global mean sea level rise is what they

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call it a global mean sea level rise, but it is due to factors like volcanic activity and glacier mass

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loss and groundwater depletion and reservoir impoundment forces as they interplay with each other.

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All of these forces rather than carbon dioxide levels, especially those created by man's activity.

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Well, the eighth point that he makes in his essay, David Siegel makes an eighth point where he says,

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the Arctic experiences natural variations as well. Yes, the Arctic experiences natural variations as well,

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with some years warmer earlier than others. And he also says, polar bear numbers are up,

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not down. They have more to do polar bear numbers, that is, have more to do with hunting permits than carbon dioxide.

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Well, I discovered, dear listener, for example, that researchers have found that the early ice breakup

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in Hudson's Bay Arctic region, and that has been happening, an early breakup of ice in Hudson's Bay Arctic

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region was due to an increase in warmer southwest, southwest winds, rather than carbon dioxide levels,

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as the environmentalists like to say. And while Al Gore sought to tug at the heartstrings of Americans,

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and is an inconvenient truth, tug at our heartstrings by saying that the polar bear population of the earth

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was declining because of shrinking polar ice sheets. Well, and Time magazine, too.

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Maybe you remember that Time magazine cover, featured a distressed polar bear on the cover

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of its global warming issue. Oh, the facts are that the polar bear, their numbers are increasing

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and not decreasing, dear listener. Dr. Susan Crockford of the Global Warming Policy Foundation,

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who is no enemy of the idea of global warming, but even she had to conclude. Dr. Susan Crockford

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says that there are some 30,000 polar bears as of 2020, up from 26,000 in 2015, a net increase of 4,000

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in the polar bear population. Well, indeed, as Psalm 104 says, the earth teems with creatures,

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innumerable living things, both small and great. And that does include the polar bear, dear listener.

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And number nine, the number nine point that David Siegel makes in his article is that no one has shown

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any damage to reef or marine systems. Yes, despite the claim, especially in Al Gore's An Inconvenient

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Truth, despite that claim, no one has shown, demonstrated any damage to reef or marine systems

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in the oceans. Additional man-made carbon dioxide will not likely harm oceans, reef systems, or marine life.

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So just get this out of your pretty little heads, you chicken little alarmists.

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Fish are mostly threatened by people, Siegel says, who eat them.

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Yes, fish are more threatened by the carnivores amongst us than they are by carbon dioxide.

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Then finally, number 10, the 10th point that he makes, and I want to camp on this one probably more

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next week. But number 10, Siegel discovered in his investigations, in his research, he discovered

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that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, that is once again, the authoritative,

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the powerhouse of policy for what to do to remedy global warming. This is the broad and expansive

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intergovernmental panel on climate change, the IPCC. These and others are pursuing a political agenda

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and a public relations campaign, not scientific inquiry. That is so important to underline with you,

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dear listener. The powerhouse, the authoritative voice on what to do to change things and to

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ameliorate global warming, is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. And they are pursuing a

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political agenda and a public relations campaign, not scientific inquiry, so says David Siegel in his

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piece. He goes on to say there's a tremendous amount of trickery going on under the surface.

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That's a very polite way of saying corruption. For years now, the United Nations and leaders

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associated with the IPCC, men like Klaus Schwab and his World Economic Forum, they have employed the

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IPCC to redistribute wealth under the guise of mitigating carbon dioxide for the planet. One Dr.

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Atmar Edenhofer, who is perhaps you've never heard of him, but he's a giant in this field. He was the

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co-chair of the IPCC from 2008 to 2015. This Dr. Atmar Edenhofer is an authoritative spokesman for that

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panel. And what did he say? He says at the conclusion of his reflections, we redistribute de facto the world's

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wealth by climate policy. Unquote. It's a very important disclosure. He goes on, he says, we

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redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. That sounds like communism to me. It gets

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much closer to the truth of what is going on with the chicken littles of the world who are trying to

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scare us into the fox's lair. And even more on this next week. Suffice it to say that the science of climate

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science is by no means settled. In fact, it strikes at the heart of the mission and methodology of

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science to say any of this is settled. Science by its very nature questions the status quo and thereby

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grows and increases knowledge. It tests theories and models. It doesn't shut up skeptics and critics and

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call them climate deniers. So do not be threatened or intimidated, dear listener, by the chicken littles of

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climate change. Know for a fact that indeed God has made all things for his glory and for our good,

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including the environment. As Psalm 8 says, when I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,

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the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him

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and the son of man that you care for him? Oh, God has given us creation to husband and to bear fruit.

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Excuse me. Let us do so with humility and wisdom, including our approach to the climate.

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This has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. New Geneva meets for

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holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. Come visit us and cross our threshold. See who we are. We meet for

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worship at 10 a.m. on Sunday. Call us for more information at area code 208-523-0196.

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