Neighborhood Ministries

While environmentalists blame man’s pollution for global warming, they ignore other possible causes. The earth’s temperature seems to vary according to the intensity of sunspots.  There has been a great deal of sunspot activity in recent years, but in the early 2000’s when the temperature of the earth suddenly dropped, there was a lull in sunspot activity on the sun.  Volcanoes also pour out huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the air. One volcano can pour out more gases than all the cars and trucks on the road and we have seen a great increase in volcanic activity in recent years. If you don’t believe in God, you could attribute it to an aging sun and an aging earth. However, if you believe that God is real and is concerned about us, you could think that God might be trying to tell us something. God allowed the enemies of Israel to take her people captive because they sacrificed their children to false idols, and we are seeing over a million of our children in America who are sacrificed through abortion to the idol of pleasure to free them from responsibility for their sins. Since 9-11-2001 when the planes struck the twin towers, the United States has seen an increase in both numbers and intensity of floods, droughts, snow storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters. Maybe God is withholding His hand of protection in the hope that we will turn from our wicked ways, repent of our sins, and seek Him, so that He might turn away His anger from us.

Over the years, we have suffered a constant barrage of warnings about global warming. However, pollution of the atmosphere would affect the world fairly uniformly. Even though the world’s temperature seems to be getting generally warmer, and some areas in the northern U.S. have seen warmer temperatures, other northern areas in the U.S. in recent years have experienced colder weather where they found themselves digging their cars out of snow like they haven’t seen for many years. Many places, in the normally warm Deep South, have experienced that great Northern treat (threat) called snow for the first time in the memory of anyone living outside a nursing home. Pollution of the atmosphere would cause long term effects. Weather changes are not consistent and do not seem to have any relationship to pollution or the lack of it. California had terrible pollution but has since cleaned up their air, yet recent temperatures have been higher than in recorded history. Global Warming theories also don’t explain why the average temperature of the earth in the mid 2000’s had raised 1 degree in the previous 10 years and Global Warming supporters warned of great consequences from man’s pollution, but the average earth temperature suddenly dropped 1 degree the following year alone. It seems like environmentalists are too quick to blame man and too slow to examine other factors.

California has proposed a ban on sale of cars and small trucks with internal combustion engines by 2035. Such proposals show how far environmentalists are willing to go. Previous advancements in pollution control eliminated California’s smog problem so that  isn’t a major concern anymore. They are merely pursuing it to control global warming. In addition, the proposal has far reaching effects because 17 other States are also considering similar proposals.  Combined, they would effect 40% of  car sales. The elimination of that many cars and small trucks will have very little effect on the environment. The United States produces only about 2% of the world’s man-made pollution and due to pollution controls currently in place, cars only produce a small percentage of that.  It would flood the market with obsolete cars that could not be sold to help buy the new cars so it would literally leave most people in those States without transportation. In addition, California and other States are struggling to maintain their electric grids due to increased demand and limits on coal and gas burning plants forced on them by environmentalists and could not handle the increased demand of so many cars having to be charged. In effect, it would destroy the American economy while producing no real benefits to them. The only ones that would benefit are the car manufacturers who produce the environmentally friendly cars. Republican Congressmen have proposed  a bill called the “Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchase Act” to protect consumers.