As a former atheist and now a Christian for the past forty years, I am perplexed by my Christian friends and churches who believe in man-made global warming, i.e. climate change. The recent propaganda tour of sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg is a prime example of the lunacy many Christians buy into with hook, line, and sinker. I don’t understand

A question to Christians, do you believe that the Bible is the word of God? Do you believe that God created the heavens and the earth and everything on it? Do you think he sent his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to die for our sins? That’s pretty awesome stuff right there. Do you believe that Christ died and rose again on the third day? If you believe these things like me, how come you think that we mere mortals here on earth have progressed so much in a few thousand years that we are on par with God? We are on par with Him because we are sure that we are impacting his planet and changing his patterns that He established from the beginning.

In Matthew 7:20, the Lord tells us, “So by their fruits you will know them.” What exactly are the fruits of people telling us that the sky is falling? The Competitive Enterprise Institute recently published a new article titled “Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-Pocalyptic Predictions.” It is crucial to remember that many of these, shall we say ‘incorrect predictions’, were made by some of the leading scientists and leaders of the day.

In August 1969, the New York Times quoted Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich as warning: “The problem with almost all environmental problems is that by the time we have enough evidence to convince people, you’re dead. We must realize that that, unless we are lucky, they will all disappear in a cloud of blue vapor in 20 years.” What was the fruit of that wise prediction?

The Competitive Enterprise Institute noted a prediction by environmentalist Kenneth Watt in 1970. “If current trends continue, the world will be about four degrees cooler than the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees cooler by the year 2000.” He added: “This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age.” Lest we think this is a new problem, he reads on.

In 1939, long before the first Earth Day, the US Department of the Interior predicted that American oil supplies would last only another 13 years. In 1949, the Secretary of the Interior said that the end of America’s oil supplies was in sight. In 1974, the US Geological Survey said that we only had a 10-year supply of natural gas. Fast forward to January 1, 2017, and the US Energy Information Administration estimated that there were about 2,459 trillion cubic feet of dry natural gas in the United States. That’s enough to last us almost a century.

In more recent times, the ‘fruits’ of which we have been partakers have become even more bizarre. David Viner, a senior research scientist at the University of East Anglia’s climate research unit, predicted, “in 2000, that within a few years winter snowfall would become ‘a very rare and exciting event.’ Children just don’t go to know what snow is”. In 2004, the US Pentagon warned President George W. Bush that major European cities would be under rising seas, and Britain would be plunged into a Siberian climate by 2020.

No discussion on climate change would be complete without mentioning Mr. Al Gore, the man who made climate change a household word and made a billion dollars in the process. Among his many predictions, Gore said in 2008 that the polar cap would disappear in just 10 years. Following his lead, the US Department of Energy study led by the US Navy predicted that the Arctic Ocean would experience an ice-free summer by 2016. Do you see a pattern here?

The fact is that the weather has always changed and always will until our God in heaven decides otherwise. Does that mean we shouldn’t be good stewards of the planet, of course not? We should be good stewards, and each one does what he can to keep the planet deliverable. But we shouldn’t be indoctrinating our children like Greta’s parents have done and scaring them. Nothing we are doing has any impact on the climate. Enough already.

We live in a time where the problem is never the problem. The problem is not now nor has it ever been the weather. The theme is control and power. The theme is to unite the people of the world by creating a common enemy without having a world war, which in today’s world would be the end of everything. If the ‘weather’ is our enemy and we are the ’cause’, we must all unite kumbayah and defeat the enemy. To unite, we ‘remove borders’, and where does that lead? For a world government, and the framework is in place, it’s called the United Nations.

In this day and age, I have the masses being fooled. We live in a world of free agents where it’s all about me, me, me. I don’t understand that my fellow Christian believers now think that we are as powerful as our God and Jesus Christ. Our Savior said: ‘Know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.’ You have been deceived by Satan and his minions. It’s time to wake up and see the sorry state we find ourselves in.