Trouble at the Poles

The past two decades have seen an incredible shift in public concern over the environment, both nationally and internationally. The call to reduce, reuse, recycle, has reverberated throughout our land from city halls to school rooms until answering that call is commonplace, and ignoring it, in some instances, has become criminal. Indeed, God has called His people to be good stewards of what He has created, but good stewardship is not what the clarion call to environmental purity is all about.

Our national vocabulary has expanded to include common usage of phrases like: "ozone depletion", "sustainable development", biodiversity", and "global warming" to name only a few.

Many hearken to the cries of environmental naysayers simply because they claim to be authorities on these issues. Long on hype and short on empirical evidence, prognosticators of environmental doom and gloom are successfully altering the basic attitudes and beliefs of our nation, from worship of the Creator to worship of the created. Remember that once upon a time, it was scientific "authorities" who told the public that the earth was flat, the sun revolved around the earth, and "bleeding" was good for whatever ailed you.

The shelving of the Larson B ice shelf in Antarctica is blamed on global warming. Other scientists believe it is the simple result of gravity. The shelf has become too heavy to support its own weight. Antarctica, according to NASA, may be getting colder!

Once again, dire warnings are out. Global warming will melt the polar ice caps flooding coastal cities and islands, and once again the animals will march two by two. This theory was the basis for the Hollywood flop, "Waterworld" which depicted mankind living on boats and floating cities in the wake of thawing at the poles.

The producers could have spared themselves millions of dollars if they only believed the promise embodied in the rainbow: "I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life." Genesis 9:13-17

Although they have no intention of doing so, scientists often contradict themselves when attempting to justify their positions. In doing so, they actually affirm God’s promise. A case in point occurred during the October 6, 1998 edition of the CBS evening news during a segment where Jerry Bowen was conducting an interview with NASA researchers in the Antarctic. The researchers were attempting to explain why the ozone hole is the biggest ever. It should have been smaller because of the banning of all chlorofluorocarbons (including freon) three years ago.

The NASA scientists blamed the problem on extremely cold temperatures, which accelerate the destruction of ozone. In an incredible blooper, NASA researcher Bob Dezafra stated, "...global warming, which heats things up elsewhere, makes the bottom of the world much colder,...." This is in stark contrast to the claims that global warming will melt the ice caps, effectively raising the oceans six to twenty feet and flooding coastal cities and islands. NASA can’t have it both ways. The south pole simply cannot be getting colder and warmer at the same time! Yet, this kind of cross-logic is being used to proclaim a number of environmental holocausts that justify punitive international treaties that can be used by the United Nations to control the policies of every nation, even those of the United States. V ks