In another additional aspect, I think God blessed us with the ability to use modern technology to enjoy life more. He also gave us the ability to learn how to do so more cleanly and efficiently. I guess my only beef with the topic is that too many people blow it out of proportion. Others still take advantage of this to force us to discontinue use of such blessings when we don’t yet have entirely sustainable alternatives. As I stated (or intended to) before, I have no problem with caring for the planet God gave us. But in the same respect I don’t like it when many of the individuals who claim a greater catastrophic effect of global climate change take God out of the equation, and oftentimes use this as a reason to turn only to alternatives that simply don’t work as well just yet.

There’s a fine balance there, I think, between choking the planet and choking some of the gifts of prosperity God allowed us to have.

First of all, the very first thing that man is ever asked by God to do is to look after the earth, to take care of it. That puts a responsibility on us to make sure we’re being good stewards of it. I don’t want to ever be asked by God “Why did you take the miracle of creation and treat it like trash?” So, when highly respected people who study the earth are telling us about the harm we might be doing to it, we should at least listen.

More importantly, though, if we’re ignoring it, even if we’re justified because of God’s promises, what kind of witnesses are we being? Non-Christians are not seeing us as people with hope for the future, but instead as people with our fingers in our ears, apparently unconcerned about the planet’s well-being. Instead of helping, many Christians seem to take the attitude of “Jesus will come soon anyway, so why not be wasteful?”. To many, who avoid God for whatever reason, their life on this earth and their legacy is all that they think they have. I think we’d be wise to be sensitive to that.

“While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”

Events like the ice age came and went, but here we are. Enjoying the seedtime and harvest, the cold and the heat, the summer and the winter, the day and night. Think of all the natural fluctuations that happened in the past, and yet here we are, once again, enjoying the natural process of things. If it is indeed warming up again, I don’t know exactly what it is that people think we can do about it. Stop using cars and air conditioners? HA. Clearly God had no idea we’d be making those, right? Much less using them. Right?

I’ve got nothing against protecting the environment and using cleaner alternatives. If we can find natural ways of enjoying modern technology that actually WORK and don’t cost us and arm and a leg, that’s excellent. But we’ll get there when we get there. We should pursue it quickly, but not because we’re being forced to. (Which in many ways, we are.)

Also… how much of the information is accurate? What about ClimateGate? Sure it was hacked information. You can say a boatload of things about how terribly unethical it is to hack into others’ private emails (not to mention illegal). But that doesn’t change the fact that you’ve got a lot of people out there who are utterly twisting the facts for their own purpose.

And who on earth ever said we weren’t allowed to set record high temperatures? What’s so bad about that? What of the record winter Europe had? Everyone seems to have forgotten that. Or brushed it aside saying all the extra hot air forced the cold air into one place. Which leads back into the global warming causes global cooling hoopla.

Did it ever strike you as odd how the name even went from Global Warming to Global Climate Change? Perhaps it was changed to reflect the tendencies of temperatures to actually CHANGE, yet still make things seem mysterious and dangerous? “Global Climate Change” is nothing to be feared. The “Global Climate” Changes year after year. It has nothing to do with us, it has been that way for years.

Perhaps instead they should have said: “Catastrophic Global Climate Change”, since that would have been more accurate in describing the over-extensive horrors some portray?