Week 8 - Global Warming - Natural cycles

I don’t think planet Earth will ever have global warming in the sense that most scientists think of it today.  There is this fear circulating in the scientific community today that stresses the affects that increased levels of carbon dioxide released into our atmosphere will have on our planet for thousands of years to come.

Increase in carbon dioxide levels.  Credit:  NASA

To be sure, there seems to be no contradicting the fact that CO₂ levels are rising, but will increasing levels of CO₂ cause widespread devastation on the scale that scientists predict?  Reading further will tell us what scientist believe will happen in the very near future:

The ongoing consumption of fossil fuels for the generation of electricity; production of fuel for gas, diesel and jet engines; and the manufacture of goods in our world, will change the Earth’s climate to such a degree that we will no longer have distinct seasonal breaks, we will have warmth almost year around.  Scientists predict that landlocked, Antarctic ice shelves will soften from warming, break off, and fall into the sea like giant ice cubes, activating the water displacement phenomena and catastrophic flooding of all coastal cities in the world will result because of the rise in sea level (up to eleven feet).  It is projected that this could happen in the last half of the 21^st century (https://www.wired.com/story/two-melting-glaciers-could-decide-the-fate-of-our-coastlines/).  

If this mode of thought were to be extrapolated into the future some 5,000 years from now:  the planet would be relieved of its population load (as some conceive of it) from the flooding in 2018.  That would reduce the carbon footprint tremendously and allow the atmosphere to return to normal, but the humans that were left would repopulate and rebuild much as they have done up to the year 2018.  The cycle (CO₂ increases) would start all over again because people enjoy their modern technology so much that they are willing to sacrifice a bit of their environment to have a piece of the “convenience” pie.  It is so much easier to drive your car or fly across country to see the Grand Canyon than it would be to ride a mule from Tennessee to see this awe-inspiring national monument. 

Personally, I don’t think that we are going to experience global warming and catastrophic flooding on our planet in the sense that scientists believe will take place.  Why?  God, the Creator of the universe, promised that this would not happen.  He said, “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease,” (Genesis 8:22).  So, there is not going to be any global warming in the sense that scientists predict.  Secondly, there will not be a catastrophic flood destroying much of the whole world.  Why?  Again, because God promised so.  He confirms his promise every time we see a rainbow in the sky.  There are those on our planet that have taken the rainbow and used it to symbolize something entirely unintended, but God created the rainbow to symbolize his promise that He would never again destroy the inhabitants of the earth with a flood (https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Genesis-9-13/).

So, what is going to happen to our earth in the future?  Modern scientists have their way of belief about the future but mine belief differs.  I believe the earth will be destroyed by fire, not flooding. “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up,” (2 Peter 3:10).  So, global warming is coming but not in the way that the bulk of modern scientists believe.  No man can predict when that day will come (the Lord will come as a thief in the night, no one knows when a thief is coming).  5000 years from now what will our world be like?  Who can say, but it will not be flooded, and we will still have “cold and heat, and summer and winter” if the Lord has not returned by then, regardless of how high CO₂ levels become.