Mother Nature makes UN report on global warming seem like a flaming hoax

The global-warming movement is taking on all of the features of a Christian crusade – complete with its own self-appointed pope, Al Gore. Alas, I remain a Doubting Thomas. In fact, I have challenged, if not defied, the gospel of global warming in such open and notorious fashion that if Gore’s judgment day were tomorrow, I would go straight to hell.Nevertheless, after the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a report last Friday, which zealous environmentalists are now touting as “the final word on global warming”, I felt obliged to respond. And if you know what a Faustian proposition it is to critique the Bible, then you’ll appreciate why this article is a bit long, though hopefully not long-winded:

Frankly, the looming catastrophes outlined in this report make the apocalyptic prophecies in the Book of Revelations seem relatively harmless. And this, notwithstanding complaints by global-warming prophets about the political pressure that forced IPCC panelists to water down the portentous perils in their scientific report.

Here, in essence, are their findings and warnings, which, appropriately enough, are rendered not only anticlimactic but also irrelevant by His Holiness Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth:

But, as indicated above, the way this report is being proselytized makes references to the Bible inescapable. And the irony is not lost on me that many renowned members of the scientific community (including Dr Tim Ball – Chairman of the Natural Resources Stewardship and Dr Richard Lindzen – Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) are dismissing it with the same intellectual derision with which IPCC panelists probably dismiss the Holy Bible.In fact it is doubly ironic that the leading critic of this report is Dr. William Gray. Because even though Gray is widely known as America’s most reliable hurricane forecaster and the man environmentalists invariably cite when preaching their gospel, here’s how he condemned Gore’s crusade – after the IPCC report was published on Friday:

It was particularly instructive, however, that Gray issued this condemnation during a keynote speech at the National Hurricane Conference in New Orleans. After all, global-warming scientists predicate much of their findings on predictions about the rise in ocean temperatures and increasing ferocity of hurricanes. But here’s how the Associated Press reported Gray’s scientific pronouncements in these respects:

But never mind Gray, because I am just as qualified as Gore is to preach about global warming. After all, despite convincing appearances, he’s not a climatologist; he just plays one in his movie. And for years now I’ve been proffering a positivistic interpretation of global-warming data as an antidote to Gore’s holier-than-thou message: For example, here’s a sample of what I’ve written over the years that informs my own derision of this IPCC report today:

Nevertheless, if Gray’s informed condemnation and my uppity cynicism are not sufficient enough to imbue you with reasonable doubt about the presumptive gospel of global warming, perhaps Mother Nature’s own rebuke of this UN decree might suffice. After all, nothing exposes the utter fatuousness of global-warming prophecies quite like the sight of snow blanketing spring flowers in such perennially warm places as Georgia and Texas – as was the case on Friday.Moreover, I suspect the hundreds of thousands who made the pilgrimage to Washington, DC last weekend for the annual Cherry Blossom Festival – only to be greeted by trees sprouting icicles – may now give global-warming preachers a chilly reception. But this might seem devotional compared to the reception they’re likely
to get from the multitudes who flocked to see the rites of spring played out on Baseball fields all over America – only to be greeted by fields sprouting snowflakes.Ultimately though, that Mother Nature made a mockery of the IPCC report in such chilling and phenomenal fashion, and on the very day it was released, is divinely inspired and makes global warming seem like a flaming hoax.That said, it behooves us in the Caribbean to appreciate that we are God’s “Chosen People” when it comes to preaching about global warming. And, moreover, that the privileges we enjoy from living in this “Promised Land” comes with the responsibility to harmonize economic development with our stewardship of the most precious natural resources on planet earth. Indeed, no one has been more vigilant over the years than I have been in admonishing our regional leaders against despoiling of our beaches with strips of condos and resort hotels for short-sighted and short-term gain.But I take umbrage at rich Americans and Europeans lecturing us about the uses of what little energy resources we (and others throughout the developing world) have to fuel our economic growth. Because try as we might, even the most profligate amongst us cannot emit as much CO2 in a year as Al Gore emits in a week from fueling everything from his Tennessee mansion to the private jets he travels in to spread his “convenient truth” all over the world.

And, incidentally, I could not be more indignant at rich environmentalists who seek absolution for their environmental sins by “purchasing carbon credits or offsets” in the same spirit with which Catholics once sought absolution for their moral sins by purchasing Papal indulgences. And their hypocrisy in this respect is only compounded by the fact that these rich environmentalists are getting even richer from investments in China and India – where the amount of CO2 emissions being spewed from coal burned for electricity and coal-fired or natural-gas power plants is rapidly approaching the levels emitted by the world’s worst polluter, the United States….

(Talk about the pot calling the kettle black….Never mind the almost-criminal (political) aversion these self-righteous environmentalists have to the cleanest and most efficient source of energy known to mankind: nuclear energy!)

Meanwhile, Christians especially should find the threat that high seas will flood our islands if we do not heed this global-warming gospel not only vacuous but also blasphemous. After all, with His Rainbow Covenant, God promised that He shall never destroy us by water again:

I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth. [Genesis 9:11]

Therefore, instead of parroting Gore’s hot air about the pollution industrial companies emit in the air, regional environmentalists should join me in complaining about the waste cruise ships dump in our Caribbean Sea….

NOTE: Earlier this year, Prince Charles traveled to New York City to receive a Global Environmental Citizen Award from the Harvard Medical School’s Center for Health and the Global Environment. And during his acceptance speech, Charles recounted for a rapt audience – comprised of the world’s top environmental celebrities – how, when they first met, Gore helped him on a documentary he was filming for the BBC titled The Earth in Balance. Then, with more than a little imperial derision, Charles looked right at Gore – who was sitting front and center – and added:

Clearly, this proves that Gore is not only an environmental hypocrite but also an intellectual thief!