God made a promise to Noah right after the flood abated.
Gen 8:22,
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
I don't see climate change there. No need to fear, God is here!
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@rrobs let’s take a look. Mind you, it sure would be nice if this whole Global Warming thing were to magically just *poof* away (like tRump assures us that COVID-19 will do real soon); but unfortunately it will not.
Either way, let’s take a look at the Christian god’s “promise” from Genesis that you posted in the OP.
“While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”
Now then....the following “shall not cease”.....
1. While the earth remaineth - there is no threat to the stone and soil from global warming, so skip this.
2. ...seedtime and harvest (i.e. spring and autumn . And no there is nothing requiring human presence for the
times of seeding and harvesting to occur. But again, most all GW outlooks do NOT include the extinction of humanity, but rather a mass die-off; greatly reducing our numbers on the Earth. So again God is not promising to solve the Global Warming that we humans have wrought.
3. Cold and heat. Sure. The poles will be cooler than the equator. Heating up the whole planet will still leave zones that are hotter than others, and zones that are colder. No promise broken by bringing on general temperature rises that will greatly limit our crop yields and bring disease and pestilence to ourselves and our livestock and our crops.
4. winter and summer - see spring and fall in #2 above.
5. Day and night. Check. The Earth will keep spinning. GW has nothing to do with this.
Bottom line, if you are cherry-picking out and clinging to one line from one religious text from one religion in the history of humanity.. Aaaaand that text actually makes no promise about god preventing or reversing GW....sounds like you’re desperately trying to find a reason not to fight the good fight against global warming.
I just wonder....Why?
If you want to base your life on the Christian mythos, then start tending to this garden that God gave you. Because
hell certainly awaits those that casually or otherwise toss aside the gifts God has granted us.
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I live in an area where for a while the average highs were going up by 2 or 3 degrees for several years. Everybody was wigging out. That was a while ago. If it had kept going up at that rate, I probably wouldn't be here writing this. As it is, the last 3 years it has begun a definite cooling trend. Last night, August 9 in SoCal, I slept with 2 blankets. Very unusual. Usually it's 0 blankets this time of the year, maybe a sheet by the time morning arrived, but definitely no blankets.
Your thinking is way too short-term. There are always hot and cold years. GW won’t alter that. GW deals in climate alterations spanning decades at a minimum. Three or four “warm” years is OK, but when those warm years, historically spaced a twenty or more years apart, start coming every 6 years or every 3 years.....And, those warm years are hotter than previous “hot years” from 3 decades ago.....That’s GW. When the SoCal fire season gets ealier and lasts longer than 40 years ago....That’s GW.
When we are on the 5th hurricane of the year at a time when historically we have usually only seen 1 by August....that’s GW.
I really think Genesis is correct. You have to admit, it would be nice if it is. It's a better alternative to most of the science on the subject.
Golly, it sure would be nice.
Speaking of science; it is well understood that it is constantly refining its findings in most physical areas of study. That is in fact a hallmark of good science. That means it is understood that what we know now may not be the whole story. I think the whole story is in Genesis and it does not refine itself. It's already perfect and not subject to change. All in all, it seems to be a better anchor of life than science. Nothing wrong with science, it just does not have the final say on life. Have to keep those limits in mind.
Golly, it sure would be nice.
Take care.
Yeah. That’s what God said when he handed the planet to us.
I sure hope you’re right in your singular interpretation...because, you know....Golly, it sure would be nice.
We're hot, but not from any natural cycle. I read somewhere that we'd actually be entering a natural cooling cycle, geologically, but I'm too lazy to go and find it.
You
feel it will. "Think" implies critical analysis of data.
You really
hope Genesis is correct.
I fear complacency, denial and wishful thinking are going to lead to a disaster of our own making.
I say err on the side of caution and heed the experts.
Yeah. The current interglacial/warm period that we’re in should have started dropping into a glacial/ice age a couple thousand years ago, if the normal cycles were maintained. Before that drop occurs, the CO2 levels normally fall off. But of course now, they are higher than since the last dinosaur age. (and CO2-wise, things had been real stable for the last million years or so (even through multiple ice ages)).
