Why I believe in Climate Change — Chicken Little, The Sky Is NOT falling!

I Confess: Climate Change Is Real

Consider these headlines:

1. CNN, 9/17/2023 — Ten countries and territories saw severe flooding in just 12 days. Is this the future of climate change?
2. Climate Adaptation Center, 5/12/2024 — Extreme weather already happening around the world in 2024
3. Yale Climate Connections, 9/18/2024 — Epic floods are wreaking havoc from Africa to Asia to Europe
4. CNN, 10/14/2024 — The Sahara Desert flooded for the first time in decades. Here’s what it looks like
5. Yale Climate Connections, 10/30/2024 — The planet is ‘on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster,’ scientists warn
6. CNN, 11/20/2024 — New threat emerges as atmospheric river combines with once-in-a-decade bomb cyclone on the West Coast

Weather Cycles

There are cyclical changes to the climate (aka The Weather).

• The orbital position of the Earth as it annually moves around the Sun
• Tilt of the Earth
• Volcanic activity
• Variations in oceanic water circulation

Un-Prophetable Kooks (not a misspell)

Kooks are, by definition, eccentric, strange, or foolish persons. Kooks arise from time to time for their moment of fame. It is my opinion Al Gore, Greta Thunberg, and Bill Gates are kooks. All climate alarmists are kooks.

Throughout my long life, there has been both predictable and unpredictable weather. It is the unpredictable weather that captures my interest. While I am not a physicist, geologist, or meteorologist, I question everything.

Throughout the first 27 years of my life, I was neither an agnostic nor an atheist. I was curious about a Christian God, but not particularly influenced by those people.

In the first two years of enlistment in the U.S. Navy, two men sparked my interest in God.

A New York businessman, a Jew, enlisted in the Navy Reserve. He and I were students at NATTC, NAS Millington, Tennessee. Neil, I later learned, was a wealthy young man. He carefully selected his friends before revealing his wealth. He and I became friends. A family emergency happened. A powerful storm left me incapable of speaking with anyone in my hometown. The telephone lines were down. Several of my shipmates were Christians but none of them came to my aid. My Jewish friend Neil quickly introduced me to his Rabbi chaplain. Within a half-hour, I received the news I needed.

The second was a Catholic seminary student who left school to join the Navy. He and I met during our orientation sessions at VA-42, NAS Oceana, Virginia. He would draw me into discussions around psychology and spirituality.

Those two engagements affected my thinking. I married a Christian girl from my hometown. She also affected my thinking.

In August 1974, on a Sunday evening, a supernatural experience with the Living God radically changed my life forever. I began earnestly studying the Bible. I now study in English, Spanish, and Latin.

Here are my reasons for understanding how God can and does control the weather.

In Matthew 8:23-27, Jesus and his disciples cross an inland sea in a boat. As Jesus slept, a great storm threatened to sink the boat. Jesus awakens, rebukes the winds and the sea. Astonished, his men ask, “What kind of Man is this that even the winds and the sea obey Him!”

In the Bible story of Jonah and the whale, the Lord caused a severe wind. This event is recorded in Jonah 1:4. A mighty storm came upon the sea. The ship was in danger of breaking up. But, God was demonstrably in control of the weather.

I believe the most important evidence of God’s authority over weather is found in 2 Chronicle 7:13-14.

“When I [God] shut up the heaven and there is no rain, or when I [God] command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence on My people, if My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.“

Author and missionary William “Bill” Koenig chronicles the supernatural coincidences of the betrayals of Israel and the subsequent supernatural phenomenon. He explores the tandem devastating consequences in his 575-page book titled, Eye to Eye: Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel.

When we experience highly unusual weather, I suggest you question the earlier human behaviors.

No, carbon dioxide (CO₂) is not a pollutant. It is essential to support all life on Earth. For further reading, I suggest 5 Things Climate Realists Can Be Thankful For This Year, published by the CO₂ Coalition.

John White
Rockwall, Texas