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.

Something that Dr Calvin Smith has written about lately is the environmental issue, the current one, there have been a few different views in the last 30 years or so.  He says…

Some of you know I have a major problem with the concept of man-made global warming. No, that’s not quite true, actually. My real problem is how even mild dissent or doubt is pounced upon and vilified as utter heresy by Enviro-Fascists in a display which would make certain medieval, torture-driven ecclesiastical institutions proud.

He’s quick to point out, and rightly so, that as Christians we should take care of God’s creation because we are stewards of it.  I believe that.  I do hate pollution, believe me, I live on a main road and I hate it when cars go by with smoke trailing behind, I am sure that is as bad for you as smoking. I hate litter, and think that we should be careful and recycle as much as we possibly can.  We should all do our bit to help.

But many Christians have made the whole saving ‘Mother Earth’ thing into THE gospel. And he warns…

Their instincts and motives are partially correct, namely, that Christian theology does have something to say about dominion, care for and protection of the world God has given us. Yet they have allowed a largely atheist or post-Christian, pagan `geolatrous’ (worship of the earth) lobby to dictate and drive the agenda. Subsequently, there is a near total absence of Christian teaching and study of environmental issues that do matter from a biblical perspective, namely, good stewardship of resources, waste, personal responsibility and pollution. Instead we are all out chasing the rainbow.

He thinks that it is about to unravel with different views being heard now as more scientists are questioning the data.

Hot then cold then hot again. Oh boy…how can the average person keep up with all of this?

What does the economy hold for us in the future? This is BIG news for those who follow prophecy as the stock market is edging toward shaky ground. Could this be the catalyst for such a world wide economic change? I received this email from Ray Gano and although I don’t agree with everything he says, I thought that the following email was blog worthy. It certainly waves a red flag at the US stock market and it strongly indicates the need to monitor the Greenback as time goes on.

Fortunately here in Australia, we have managed to ride the weathering storm thus far. But for how long we can do this is unsure. Like the old saying goes … ‘The US sneezes - the rest of us catch the cold’.

The other question to ask in light of this is whether or not the US markets will continue to have an effect on the rest of the world, or will the Euro with the help of China be like the phoenix and rise from its ashes with an economy that is strong enough to tip the balance in favour of the Euro. Although not all agree with this and say… that America’s hegemony is strong and will continue to be strong.

Here is the email that talks about the baby boomers and their retirement…

Oct 17th, 2007, the tailspin officially began.

What are you getting so worked up about Ray?

“Under current law, Social Security won’t have enough money to pay promised benefits in 2041 but there is another crunch much, much sooner, the result of the the federal government relying on Social Security to pay for its annual spending.”

“We face a tsunami of spending due primarily to the retirement of the baby boom generation and rising health care costs,” Walker said. “So what’s happened is we’ve gone from 16 workers paying into Social Security for every person drawing benefits in 1950 to 3.3 to one today, and we’re going down to two to one by the time the boomers retire in big numbers and that’s about where it will stay over the long run.”

“We’re going to have tens of thousands of baby boomers retiring every week over the next decade or so and that means that by time we get to 2017, just 10 years away, we will no longer be collecting enough payroll taxes to pay Social Security benefits,”
Source - http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301997,00.html

But that is just Social Security, let me give you a short history lesson and why there is even more bad news.

In the 1970’s there was a law created that when it came out, it was touted as a great law, a law for the people. The law was called “ERISA” or known as the “Employee Retirement Income Security Act. This is the law that gave birth to the 401(k). One of the reasons ERISA is significant is because it forced millions of employees to become investors, investors without any financial training or education. This is why the financial expert’s advice is “Work hard, save money, get out of debt, invest for the long term, and diversify, diversify, diversify.”

Warren Buffet made a great statement that kind of sums this up..

“Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those that take the subway”

Many people know that the Baby Boomer generation is the largest generation in history. Many of our companies made millions from the baby boomer wave. When the baby boomers had kids, Gerber made millions. When the baby boomer kids got older Matel, Hasbro, etc made millions. The baby boomer’s lived life at a fast pace, thus was born McDonalds, Burger King, etc. I point these things out because the baby boomers are a generation to be considered.

When the baby boomers bought, companies made millions.

Baby Boomers have money they have saved for retirement via their 401(k), IRAs, ect.

Between 1995 and 2005 the millions of people who followed the “Work hard, save money, get out of debt, invest for the long term, and diversify, diversify, diversify.” Advice lost an estimated $7-9 trillion. And much worse than losing $7-9 trillion, the people who followed that advice missed out on what the Economist and other magazines called the biggest financial boom in history. So not only did those investors lose money from the 2000-2003 stock market crash, they failed to make a lot of money in the financial boom in real estate and commodities. That is the price of bad advice and even worse not having the knowledge to know better and the education.

But back to ERISA…

ERISA has a major flaw that many people do not look at or even know of. ERISA has a mandatory withdrawal mechanism at age seventy and a half. At that age you MUST start withdrawing your money from the 401(k)s, IRAs, etc. That means millions of baby boomers will be forced to systematically withdraw from their 401(k), IRAs, ect.

Where is all this money invested? It is in the stock market.

As I stated before, when the baby boomers BOUGHT, companies made millions.

This year, 2007, the first baby boomers turn 61.

What will happen when the baby boomers start to sell?

In 2016 it is estimated that there will be 2,282,887 baby boomers that are turning seventy. They all must start selling and pulling their money out of the stock market.

In 2017 it jumps to 2,928,818 more people. That is about 700,000 more people than the year before that will start selling and pulling their money out of the stock market too. (1)

That is 5,211,705 people together. That many people will affect the economy and more are added each year for approximately 20 years. We did not count the immigrants either in the mix. (1)

All in all, that is a lot of stock being sold, or at least trying to be sold.

What happens when millions of people start selling millions of shares of stock?

The prices start to drop and fast.

The laws of supply and demand will come into effect, and the odds of major panic just increased enormously.

So why is there a mandatory withdrawal? Why not just change the laws? All that money that was put in was put there tax free. Uncle Sam now wants his due…the taxes. This is another reason why the huge spending, the fiat currency, etc. This is also why we will probably never see the death tax go away any time soon either.

This is one of the primary reasons Wilfred Hahn and I created our multimedia CD “Escape The End Time Money Snare.”

Folks the storm is coming. We are called to occupy till He returns. He may return tomorrow or may tarry another 20 years, we dont know.

What have you done to prepare for the storm?

Ray
Prophezine

Endnotes -

1- Adapted from Robert Kiyosaki’s book “Rich Dad’s Prophecy”

Other articles of interest are…

• Is another Wall St crash coming? The triggers for 1987’s Black Monday – when Wall Street fell 22.6pc in a single day – are back, writes Ambrose Evans-PritchardExactly 20 years after “Black Monday” – which saw Wall Street plunge 22.6pc – economists have warned of eerie parallels with the tensions visible on global markets today.
• The End of National Currency Global financial instability has sparked a surge in “monetary nationalism” — the idea that countries must make and control their own currencies. But globalization and monetary nationalism are a dangerous combination, a cause of financial crises and geopolitical tension. The world needs to abandon unwanted currencies, replacing them with dollars, euros, and multinational currencies as yet unborn. Benn Steil is Director of International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and a co-author of Financial Statecraft.
• First Baby Boomer Files For Social Security Benefits WASHINGTON — Kathleen Casey-Kirschling filed for early retirement Monday, becoming the first baby boomer to start collecting Social Security.Born one second after midnight in January 1946, the retired teacher leads the way for as many as 80 million individuals who will qualify for the retirement payout.”I think I’m just lucky to be at the top of the boom.

Not only is there a think tank that has requested the resident of the Academy Awards to take back the Oscar given to Al Gore for his film ‘An Inconvenient Truth… but there are less than half of published scientists that endorse the current global warming theory! There is a global change happening alright, a change in views over what is actually happening to the planet!

Of 528 total papers on climate change, only 38 (7%) gave an explicit endorsement of the consensus. If one considers “implicit” endorsement (accepting the consensus without explicit statement), the figure rises to 45%. However, while only 32 papers (6%) reject the consensus outright, the largest category (48%) are neutral papers, refusing to either accept or reject the hypothesis. This is no “consensus.”

The figures are even more shocking when one remembers the watered-down definition of consensus here. Not only does it not require supporting that man is the “primary” cause of warming, but it doesn’t require any belief or support for “catastrophic” global warming. In fact of all papers published in this period (2004 to February 2007), only a single one makes any reference to climate change leading to catastrophic results.

These changing viewpoints represent the advances in climate science over the past decade. While today we are even more certain the earth is warming, we are less certain about the root causes. More importantly, research has shown us that — whatever the cause may be — the amount of warming is unlikely to cause any great calamity for mankind or the planet itself.

Schulte’s survey contradicts the United Nation IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (2007), which gave a figure of “90% likely” man was having an impact on world temperatures. But does the IPCC represent a consensus view of world scientists? Despite media claims of “thousands of scientists” involved in the report, the actual text is written by a much smaller number of “lead authors.” The introductory “Summary for Policymakers” — the only portion usually quoted in the media — is written not by scientists at all, but by politicians, and approved, word-by-word, by political representatives from member nations.

By contrast, the ISI Web of Science database covers 8,700 journals and publications, including every leading scientific journal in the world. @ Daily Tech by Michael Asher

Other articles that have challenged the current theory of Global Warming are…

• Challenge to Scientific Consensus on Global Warming: Analysis Finds Hundreds of Scientists Have Published Evidence Countering Man-Made Global Warming Fears A new analysis of peer-reviewed literature reveals that more than 500 scientists have published evidence refuting at least one element of current man-made global warming scares. More than 300 of the scientists found evidence that 1) a natural moderate 1,500-year climate cycle has produced more than a dozen global warmings similar to ours since the last Ice Age and/or that 2) our Modern Warming is linked strongly to variations in the sun’s irradiance. “This data and the list of scientists make a mockery of recent claims that a scientific consensus blames humans as the primary cause of global temperature increases since 1850,” said Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Dennis Avery.
• Study finds CO2 didn’t end ice age Counters major premise of global warming theory A new peer-reviewed scientific study counters a major premise of global warming theory, concluding carbon dioxide did not end the last ice age. The study, led by University of Southern California geologist Lowell Stott, concluded deep-sea temperatures rose 1,300 years before the rise in atmospheric CO2, which would rule out the greenhouse gas as the main agent of the meltdown. “There has been this continual reference to the correspondence between CO2 and climate change as reflected in ice core records as justification for the role of CO2 in climate change,” said Stott. “You can no longer argue that CO2 alone caused the end of the ice ages.”
• Sun still main force in climate change Rebuts widely publicized study this summer by UK scientist Despite the claim of a heavily publicized recent study, the sun still appears to be the main agent in global climate change, according to new research by Danish scientists…
• CNN Meteorologist: ‘Definitely Some Inaccuracies’ in Gore Film

The jury is still out it seems.

Cold then hot, then perhaps cold again… who knows??? This climate change is really getting confusing! What do these scientists know for sure?

The ‘Old’ Consensus? [Excerpts]Did NASA scientist James Hansen, the global warming alarmist in chief, once believe we were headed for . . . an ice age? An old Washington Post story indicates he did.On July 9, 1971, the Post published a story headlined “U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming.” It told of a prediction by NASA and Columbia University scientist S.I. Rasool. The culprit: man’s use of fossil fuels.The Post reported that Rasool, writing in Science, argued that in “the next 50 years” fine dust that humans discharge into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel will screen out so much of the sun’s rays that the Earth’s average temperature could fall by six degrees.Sustained emissions over five to 10 years, Rasool claimed, “could be sufficient to trigger an ice age.”

Aiding Rasool’s research, the Post reported, was a “computer program developed by Dr. James Hansen,” who was, according to his resume, a Columbia University research associate at the time.

So what about those greenhouse gases that man pumps into the skies? Weren’t they worried about them causing a greenhouse effect that would heat the planet, as Hansen, Al Gore and a host of others so fervently believe today?

“They found no need to worry about the carbon dioxide fuel-burning puts in the atmosphere,” the Post said in the story, which was spotted last week by Washington resident John Lockwood, who was doing research at the Library of Congress and alerted the Washington Times to his finding.

Hansen has some explaining to do. The public deserves to know how he was converted from an apparent believer in a coming ice age who had no worries about greenhouse gas emissions to a global warming fear monger.

This is a man, as Lockwood noted in his message to the Times’ John McCaslin, who has called those skeptical of his global warming theory “court jesters.” We wonder: What choice words did he have for those who were skeptical of the ice age theory in 1971?

People can change their positions based on new information or by taking a closer or more open-minded look at what is already known. There’s nothing wrong with a reversal or modification of views as long as it is arrived at honestly.

But what about political hypocrisy? It’s clear that Hansen is as much a political animal as he is a scientist. Did he switch from one approaching cataclysm to another because he thought it would be easier to sell to the public? Was it a career advancement move or an honest change of heart on science, based on empirical evidence?

If Hansen wants to change positions again, the time is now. With NASA having recently revised historical temperature data that Hansen himself compiled, the door has been opened for him to embrace the ice age projections of the early 1970s.

Could be he’s feeling a little chill in the air again.

OK then, perhaps the dust that stops the sun’s rays from heating up the earth will counter the global warming that is happening because of Carbon Dioxide being pumped out into the atmosphere! See, it all pans out in the end people.

Seriously, this is getting very confusing!

But what is not so confusing is Al Gore’s latest inconvenience.

I was watching the news this morning and apparently a British Court has identified eleven inaccuracies in Al Gore’s movie ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. Ouch!

In order for the film to be shown, the Government must first amend their Guidance Notes to Teachers to make clear that 1.) The Film is a political work and promotes only one side of the argument. 2.) If teachers present the Film without making this plain they may be in breach of section 406 of the Education Act 1996 and guilty of political indoctrination. 3.) Eleven inaccuracies have to be specifically drawn to the attention of school children. @The New Party Articles

For a Creationist view and I believe a more balanced one, see… ‘Global warming: what is ‘the creationist view’?’