The world's newest religion - Environmental Idolatry

"Global warming is a major industry today. Between 1992 and 2008 the US Government spent $30 billion on climate change research and now contributes $6 billion a year. This finances jobs, grants, conferences, international travel and academic journals. It not only keeps a huge army of people in comfortable employment, but also fills them with self-righteousness and moral superiority regardless of the fact that real science does not support it." Jay Lehr, Ph.D Science Director at the Heartland Institute, USA.

I will digress a bit from my usual fare today. I have been enthralled by the worldwide panic swirling around the who concept of so called "global warming." Now, I know that Al Gore has declared the debate to be "over", but it certainly is not. There is a large number of highly qualified scientist who declare that it is not only good science, it is a purposeful, financially driven hoax; that prays on the fears of a culture thal already lives in fear. I believe that it is a function of the world's newest religion "Environmental Idolatry".

Actually, its not a "new religion" because it was identified as far back as Paul's letter to the church at Rome when he said in Romans 1:25, "they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshipped and served the creature (creation) more than the creator."

I highly recommend that if you are not yet living in complete panic about the levels of C02 in the atmosphere you read a document by Jay Lehr at http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=471&Itemid=1. (You can copy it here and paste it in your browser). In this compelling document, Jay Lehr "blows up" much of the myth about global warming and I think, exposes it for exactly what it is - a myth and worse, a hoax.

A couple of quotes for to pique your interest:

"Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. On the contrary, it makes crops and forests grow faster. Mapping by satellite shows that the Earth has become about 6% greener overall in the past two decades, with forests expanding into arid regions. The Amazon rain forest was the biggest gainer, with two tons of additional biomass per acre per year. Certainly, climate change does not help every region equally, but careful studies predict overall benefit, fewer storms, more rain, better crop yields, longer growing seasons, milder winters and decreasing heating costs in colder climates. The news is certainly not bad and on balance may be rather good."

NASA satellites measuring Earth atmosphere temperature found 2008 to be the coldest year since 2000 and the 14th coldest of the past 30 years. US climate Monitoring Stations on the surface show greater warmth, but pictures of most of the 1,221 US temperature stations show 90% to be located near human sources of heat (exhaust fans, air conditioning units, hot roof tops, asphalt parking lots and so forth). The conclusion is inescapable: The US land based temperature record is unreliable. (Note: this means that the instruments they're using to record the temperatures of the earth's surface are primarily placed in hot asphalt parking logs and next to air conditioner exhausts, etc. where you would always see rises in temps).

Man in his blind retreat from serving the living God has begun to worship the things that God created. The truth that is being hidden is that MAN (whom the enemy of God hates) is the real target here and the one who will suffer most as we "save" the environment is man. Just ask the farmers who are loosing their farms and living in California because the irrigation supply to their farms has been cut off to save a 2 inch fish called the "Delta Smelt".

The science behind the "environmental" movement is weak and the integrity of its proponents is suspect, especially given the revelations of the past few days in which a major scandal in the environmental movement has been revealed: Computer hackers have obtained 160 megabytes of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England. These e-mails, which have now been confirmed as real, involved many researchers across the globe with ideologically similar advocates around the world. They were brazenly discussing the destruction and hiding of data that did not support global warming claims. The academics here also worked closely with the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

I am not proposing waste and pollution. I am suggesting that the danger to the planet has been overblown and supported by unfaithful science. I believe the human motivation is money - but the "spiritual" motivation (we wrestle not against flesh and blood) is to do harm to men.

Be warned - your enemy is not co2, nor is it greehhouse gases. Your enemy is as he always been - the one who seeks to steal, kill, and destroy.