Living Journey

God promised us that we will always have seasons and although there may be (as most likely have been in the past) micro-climatic changes occurring on a regularly basis and even larger scale macro-climatic changes over the centuries (as recorded in history, such as the “Little Ice Age”) - there will not be any sort of global change on the scale that the establishment media, educational establishment and political/corporate governing marriage wishes you to believe as long as this current heaven and earth remains.

Gen 8:22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”

And because of this promise I really don’t get too hung up about any current populist’s view of global change, whether the globe is getting warmer and perhaps revealing, once again, that Antarctica has not always been under a full cap of ice, and that there may have been ancient civilisations that called Antarctica home!

For example, over the past few years several ancient maps have been discovered that picture Antarctica ice-free at least in part. One such map, drawn by well-known French map-maker Oronteus Finaeus in 1531 is pictured as follows:

There is no serious question about the authenticity of this map. It pictures the globe from the perspective of the Antarctic South Pole, long before Antarctica was supposedly discovered. It also clearly shows South America, Southern Africa and Madagascar. The coastline of Antarctica is pictured as being ice-free with inlets, bays, rivers and mountain ranges. The map is extraordinarily accurate. In all likelihood, people were living on Antarctica at the time the source-maps for the Finaeus map were drawn. (read more here)

And upon hearing the latest long range weather forecast that says it’s getting colder and the globe is possibly heading into a mini ice age again (just a reminder the book of Job in the bible has been noted (pdf file) to record an ice age see Job 37:9–10, 38:22–23, 29–30), I just remember that the bible says that this earth will continue to be sustained by God, even though it groans and suffers under the curse of sin until all things have been accomplished by God. Only then will this earth will get very, VERY hot and every element of the earth will be burnt up… now that is one long range global weather forecast I don’t want to be around for!!!

For now though, perhaps this winter I should invest in a warm woolen jacket, a pair of gloves and hat to keep the winter chills away…

• Russian scientist says Earth could soon face new Ice Age “A year ago, many meteorologists predicted that higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would make the year 2007 the hottest in the last decade, but, fortunately, these predictions did not become reality,” Abdusamatov said...He also said that in 2008, global temperatures would drop slightly, rather than rise, due to unprecedentedly low solar radiation in the past 30 years, and would continue decreasing even if industrial emissions of carbon dioxide reach record levels.
  

• A cold spell soon to replace global warming Earth is now at the peak of one of its passing warm spells. It started in the 17th century when there was no industrial influence on the climate to speak of and no such thing as the hothouse effect. The current warming is evidently a natural process and utterly independent of hothouse gases…The real reasons for climate changes are uneven solar radiation, terrestrial precession (that is, axis gyration), instability of oceanic currents, regular salinity fluctuations of the Arctic Ocean surface waters, etc. There is another, principal reason—solar activity and luminosity. The greater they are the warmer is our climate... Astrophysics knows two solar activity cycles, of 11 and 200 years. Both are caused by changes in the radius and area of the irradiating solar surface. The latest data, obtained by Habibullah Abdusamatov, head of the Pulkovo Observatory space research laboratory, say that Earth has passed the peak of its warmer period, and a fairly cold spell will set in quite soon, by 2012. Real cold will come when solar activity reaches its minimum, by 2041, and will last for 50-60 years or even longer.
  

• A First! Snow Falls in Baghdad After weathering nearly five years of war, Baghdad residents thought they’d pretty much seen it all. But Friday morning, as muezzins were calling the faithful to prayer, the people here awoke to something certifiably new. For the first time in memory, snow fell across Baghdad.
  

• Ice returns as Greenland temps plummet While the rest of Europe is debating the prospects of global warming during an unseasonably mild winter, a brutal cold snap is raging across the semi-autonomous nation of Greenland. On Disko Bay in western Greenland, where a number of prominent world leaders have visited in recent years to get a first-hand impression of climate change, temperatures have dropped so drastically that the water has frozen over for the first time in a decade.
  

• Arab world shivers in unusual cold snap AMMAN, Jordan - The lone de-icing machine at Jordan’s busy international airport worked frantically on Tuesday to clear planes for take off when a freak snowstorm blanketed this small desert country in a cold snap that has the whole region shivering. Temperatures have plunged throughout the Middle East, dusting cities with unfamiliar snowfalls and sending residences scurrying for their blankets and jackets to cope with the near freezing temperatures in many places.
  

Anyway, you get the picture.

Oh, and by the way… I do believe in the big bang… it just hasn’t happened yet!

2Pe 3:10-13 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed. Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.