couple decades, there has been a growing bandwagon of people who have been telling us that the earth is on track to suffer catastrophic warming from man-generated greenhouse gases. I have been told that drastic action is needed to save ourselves from catastrophe.
Until the latter part of 2007, we had seen some rather surprising signs of global warming. Here are a few examples:
- The years 2005 and 2006 were said to be the warmest on record.
- We had several years of severe tropical storms all around the globe.
- Australia had experienced its worst drought on record.
- Glaciers and polar ice caps were showing signs of rapid meltdown.
- January 2007 was the warmest year in Netherlands since temperatures were first measured in 1706.
The whole idea of global warming does make sense. If you add billions of tons of a known greenhouse gas like C02 into the atmosphere, we should expect an increase in the global temperature. Since the dawn of the industrial age, CO2 levels have more than doubled.
Earth has a very complex weather system, so it’s not always clear what impact any type of change will have on the planet. Just as all signs pointed to an apocalyptic future, the threat took a dramatic reversal. The year 2007 started with record warmth, but it ended with record cold. The pattern of low mercury readings continued in 2008.
The year 2009 has been very much on the cool side. The Great Lakes area had one of its coolest summers on record. This past week has seen a long list of record low temps in North America and in Europe. I moved down here to Arkansas hoping to escape Nebraska’s chilly fall temps only to find an endless pattern of cold, rainy days.
Another blow to the climate-change agenda has been the revelation that much of the evidence of a warming climate has been the result of biased reporting. We’ve all been told the polar ice caps are rapidly melting away. The fact is that there is no change in sea ice.
“Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months, global sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew to a close. Ice levels had been tracking lower throughout much of 2008, but rapidly recovered in the last quarter. In fact, the rate of increase from September onward is the fastest rate of change on record, either upwards or downwards” (Daily Tech, 1/1/09).
Rather than question the validity of these most dire forecasts, the press continues to spew out left-wing propaganda. Just this last week, most news outlets ran an article about how the ice caps will be completely gone in 20 to 30 years. The report was from Pen Hadow, an environmentalist whose claim to fame is walking to the north and south pole. He admits his expeditions have added little to the field of science. Nonetheless, Hadow’s prediction was treated as gospel by the media.
Global warming is supposed to increase the severity and frequency of tropical storms. But hurricane and typhoon activity is at a record low. The Weather Channel is very slanted in its coverage of weather events. Despite its forecast of super-hurricanes fed by warmer waters, the Atlantic maps remain mockingly quite.
The most ridiculous part of the global warming debate is the ideas being proposed by activists like Al Gore. He would have us save the earth with trivial solutions like building more wind mills and taxing people’s carbon emissions. Of course, at the same time, he ignores the fact that several countries are rapidly becoming major producers of greenhouse gasses. China alone opens two power plants each month.
The whole goal of the environmental movement is to bring America under the umbrella of a global nanny organization. California is an early sign of this grab for power. State legislators in the Golden State want to end the use of incandescent bulbs by 2012. They just banned the sale of TVs that use a certain amount of electricity.
The Bible says that someday the world will come under the leadership of one man. The threat of terrorism, economic chaos, and global warming are the three leading reasons cited for why we need to cede our sovereignty to global governance. The way the world is changing right now, it might only take a heat wave in 2010 to push us over the edge.
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Uniting Europe Seeks Leader
The European Union (EU) continues to boil within a hotbed of dynamic worldwide economic upheaval. Creation and establishment of a permanent president of the EU is the prime issue on the front burner. Tony Blair, former British prime minister, is at the center of the search for a powerful leader who can take the member states into a position many of the EU architects elite believe will be above that of America as the great world super-nation state. This attitude is reflected in the following statement by an EU letter to the editor.
The EU is on the point of an important change. The American Empire is starting to die and the EU will, slowly and surely, be taking over its role and influence. It is already happening financially as the euro emerges as the world's most reliable currency. Politically too, the EU with its "soft power" is becoming a major diplomatic force. We Europeans are, after more than 60 years, finally ridding ourselves of our dependence on and subservience to the U.S., a fact already recognized by serious politicians on the European mainland. (Rapture Ready News, 10/14/09).
Tony Blair seems the present favorite to be the first permanent EU president. This is due in large part to the strong backing of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Blair's behalf for the £275,000-a-year post.
Blair's leading up the list for the position, however, isn't without considerable opposition. Many who object claim that Blair has been too close to the U.S., especially in the matter of support for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq and subsequent continuing presence there in order to assure against an occupation by Mid-East terrorist forces.
Opponents of a Blair EU presidency center on the fear he would be an operative more for the U.S. than for Europe. While the Lisbon Treaty has circumvented failure to ratify a EU constitution, and despite the fact that Ireland has finally committed to joining after years of refusal to do so, there are nonetheless hurdles to be overcome. Blair, or whoever becomes the first permanent president of the EU, won't be able to begin acting officially as president until a constitution is ratified.
As example of the raging demand for securing ratification, European Union pressure is tremendous for Czechoslovakian President Vaclav Klaus to sign the Lisbon Treaty, which, in effect, will be a constitution. His counterpart in Poland, president Lech Kaczynski, signed the treaty October 10, leaving the Czech Republic as the only one of the EU’s 27 members that has yet to fully approve a charter intended to streamline the bloc’s decision-making and give it a long-term president and stronger foreign policy chief.
Czech president Klaus has stated at every opportunity that he fears the Lisbon Treaty's ratification would mean an unacceptable loss of national sovereignty and autonomy. This has long been the fear of many within Great Britain's Parliament. Still, the drive is on for finding a man about which Henri Spaak, one of the earlier leaders in searching for a formula for a new European order, said that whether he would be a man or the devil, the new order builders would embrace him. This declaration isn't far afield from what Jesus said about God's chosen people regarding their acceptance of the man of sin over God's Messiah: "I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive" (John 5:43).
One European newspaper analysis stated, "Europe had hope for a future, only if a figure of great international caliber, able to warm hearts, to be respected outside Europe and perhaps even feared, but also able to identify the institutions with his leadership, is chosen" (EU Observer/Brussels, Il Foglio [newspaper]).
Bible prophecy foretells the "prince that shall come" from the area that comprised territory in and around the capital of the ancient Roman Empire. He will be a man, according to Revelation 13, who will be head of the composite Beast described in Daniel 7 and Revelation 13:1-3. The final kingdom the Beast will rule will be the worst of all history, according to Jesus himself. That kingdom's nucleus is forming now. This early manifestation of the new Roman order is in the making before our eyes, as represented in the information above.
It seems, in consideration of all of the other profound signals of the coming Tribulation in our headlines, that the coming together of Europe and the creation of the seat of control that will reign over earth's next superpower is a stupendous indicator of where this generation stands on God's prophetic time line..
Terry
