Did Hurricane Irene or all these other hurricanes really come about because of Global Warming?
        Al Gore seems to think so, and now he says that one who denies global warming today is like being a racist yesterday.
         If anything unusual happens in nature these days, whether it’s tornados or hurricanes, global warming is often blamed.
         Listen to this dire warning: “There are ominous signs that the earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically, and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production, with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth.  The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively, that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it.”
         This sounds quite grim. But the warning goes on: “Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climate change or even to allay its effects. The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climate change once the results become grim reality.”
         The scientists have spoken: global warming is a fact. We just got to get all the politicians to act before it’s too late.
         There’s only one problem. That dire prediction is from 1975 (from Newsweek, April 28), and it’s talking about global cooling, which was all the rage back then.
        Wow, how do we go from these two totally different scenarios in just a couple decades? Scenario 1: The earth is cooling too fast because of man’s activities. Scenario 2: anthropogenic (man-made) global warming is wreaking havoc on the earth’s climate.
         My wife from Norway makes an interesting point. When she was in the Norwegian equivalence of high school, in the 1970s, the “experts” said the world was cooling. And there were three key remedies:
         *population control;
         *redistribution of wealth from the rich nations to the poor nations;
         *a world governing body.
         Jump ahead to the 21st century, and now we supposedly have man-made global warming.
         What is it that the high priests of global warming say is the key to dealing with the crisis? They have three basic solutions:
         *population control;
         *redistribution of wealth from the rich nations to the poor nations;
         *a world governing body.
         All my life, I’ve seen the vagaries of nature take their toll. I remember a snow storm in the Chicago area where I grew up that shut down everything. To us, it was kind of fun. Not only did we miss school, but we could toboggan down parts of Mt. Pleasant Street.)
        The snow storm came in January where the week before we could play outside without wearing a coat. It was crazy. That was in 1967.
         Good thing they weren’t blaming global cooling or global warming then.
         Global warming has become a tautology. If the weather’s too hot, that’s global warming. If it’s too cold, that’s because of global warming.
         What amazes me about all this is that most people seem oblivious to the facts that some of the raw data concerning global temperatures has been tampered with. The scandal involving emails between global warming enthusiasts, including those at East Anglia University in the UK, came out in 2009.
         That scandal showed that some scientists were deliberately playing with the data. Incredible.
         How do the global warming true believers maintain their credibility?
         Yet, people like Michelle Bachmann or Rick Perry are supposedly ignorant because they deny man-made global warming.
         I believe that in the beginning God created the world. He made an earth that supports human life. (The book and DVD, The Privileged Planet, provide compelling evidence that the Creator uniquely shaped this planet for our life).
         Anyway, I believe God created a stable situation where there are various fluctuations of heating and cooling. It has nothing to do with us.
         As I said in a talk I once gave a college that was recorded and aired on Cspan2 a few years ago: “Do you know what’s experiencing global warming right now? The planet Mars. The planet Mars is experiencing global warming. It’s because of the sun. It has nothing to do with SUVs that people are driving.”
         Did global warming cause Irene or any of these recent hurricanes? A couple years ago, I asked Max Mayfield, retired director of the National Hurricane Center, if there was possibly any link between global warming and hurricanes? He said absolutely not.
         Overall, it seems to me that what’s heating up more than the globe is some of the rhetoric about man-made global warming.