Global Warming Brings Distress and Perplexity

Jack Kinsella writes in his commentary from 3/21/2007 on www.hallindsey.com about the current global warming scare and what Jesus said would be the signs of his coming:

Distress and Perplexity

Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," directed by Davis Guggenheim, was released in May and took in more than $46 million, making it one of the top-grossing documentaries. The companion book by Al Gore quickly became a bestseller, reaching No. 1 on the New York Times' list.

Gore depicted a future in which temperatures soar, ice sheets melt, seas rise, hurricanes batter the coasts and people die en masse. "Unless we act boldly," he wrote, "our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes."

The film' success, together with the adulation, if not outright worship he received at the hands of the Beautiful People in Hollywood, have some speculating that Al Gore may throw his hat into the 2008 presidential ring.

Al Gore is scheduled to make an appearance before Representative John Dingell's (D-Mi) Energy and Commerce Committee this week.

After that, its over to the Senate where Gore will address Senator Barbara Boxer's (D-Ca) Environment and Public Works Committee.

But Gore won't get the rock star treatment over his film "An Inconvenient Truth" that he got from Hollywood at the Oscars. It seems that the Congress has actually looked at the science, instead of all the pretty charts and graphs.

They've consulted with genuine scientists, climatologists and astronomers, and evidently, now they'd like to know what is really going on.

Even James Hansen, an environmental scientist, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (and a top adviser to Gore), is beginning to question some of Gore's scientific conclusions, admitting the former VP's work may have a few 'technical flaws'.

Gore's global warming argument won over many converts in the scientific community in the wake of the 2004-2005 hurricane seasons, which he predicted was just the beginning of what Gore maintained was a permanent cycle of increasing hurricane activity.

Until last season, when the Atlantic hurricane season produced only half as many storms as forecasters predicted, none of which made landfall in the United States.

This past January, while America was enjoying what seemed to be one of the warmest winters on record, Gore's stock was riding high; everywhere you turned, Somebody Famous was quoting Al Gore and noting darkly,

"The cherry blossoms are blooming in Washington. People are jogging in Central Park in shorts and T-shirts. Surely this is PROOF of global warming."

The House scheduled emergency hearings to discuss global warming. (They had to be subsequently canceled due to an ice storm)

The whole country suddenly plunged into a deep freeze that saw snowstorms in Malibu, California, hard freezes in Florida, and caused an estimated $1 billion in damage to the nation's citrus crops.

Last week, a group of activists, intending to highlight the global warming threat by walking to the North Pole, had to cancel their journey due to the cold.

The explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the Arctic Ocean after Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their electronic equipment.

"Ann said losing toes and going forward at all costs was never part of the journey," said Ann Atwood, who helped organize the expedition.

In Northhampton, Mass last Friday, a group of global warming activists planned to walk across the state to draw attention to global warming. They made it eight miles through snow so deep that one demonstrator said she felt like she was 'breaking a trail' before they called a halt to the walk until the weather cleared.

And now, even the New York Times is beginning to question Gore's conclusions, (an event roughly analogous to the Pope publishing a paper questioning the existence of God.)
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Jack makes some good points in his commentary:

1. There is no evidence that the current warming trend is any different than previous such periods. Remember the Oklahoma Dust Bowl?
2. Pretty much the same kind of evidence was offered 30 years ago to support the contention that Global Cooling was about to bring on catastrophe.
3. The net effect is that much of the world is in distress about what they perceive as a world wide problem.
4. Much of the world is in perplexity about what to do about this perceived problem.

In Luke 21:25-26, Jesus said “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken."

Jesus is coming soon!