“We have at most ten years—not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions.”

James Hansen, An Inconvenient Truth

That was but one of many prophesies the climate alarmists made in the 80’s that time has determined to be false. This week, the scientists in the various branches of the federal government issued their climate change report which was released on black Friday. Temperatures are predicted to rise between 1.1 and 9 degrees by 2100 which will cause hundreds of thousands of premature deaths and a 10% reduction in national GDP. Like all of the other previous dire predictions, it is laughable. You see, CO2 is actually a product of mammals like you and me breathing and is food for plants. It is not pollution in any way. At any rate, the US has steadily been decreasing its CO2 omissions over the last 10-15 years. The reason is due to the fact that burning coal is not clean, for other reasons than CO2 and it is just cheaper to burn natural gas which the US has in abundance. Meanwhile countries such as China are ever increasing their use of coal out of necessity. The whole global warming conspiracy is primarily an excuse for more taxes and more governmental control of the economy.

What’s is really bad about the hoax that the environmental left is foisting on everyone on a daily basis is that it takes away energy for truly important concerns. For one, there is actual pollution that needs to be addressed. For instance, there is a large dead zone that is created in the Gulf every year that is the result of runoff into the Mississippi river. That would be a problem that the scientist could work to solve.

Another is that while they decry global warming, global cooling is more of a concern. You see, the sun has cycles. Recently, there has been an absence of sunspots which indicates that the sun may be going into a cooling stage. In the late 1600s and early 1700s, the sun went into a prolonged cooling phase which was called the Maunder Minimum and was also called the Little Ice Age. Unlike the hoax, this was a real problem. Crops failed which brought on famine of dramatic proportions. It is said that Scotland’s population was reduced by 15% and Prussia’s population was reduced by 40%. In September, Martin Mlynczak with NASA stated ““We see a cooling trend high above Earth’s surface, near the edge of space, our atmosphere is losing heat energy. If current trends continue, it could soon set a Space Age record for cold.”

Instead of calling for a carbon tax to save us from global warming, our government should be taking steps to prepare for the onset of another Maunder Minimum. In the latter chapters of Genesis, the Bible tells of Joseph who in a dream prophesied that there would be 7 prosperous years to be followed by 7 lean years that would greatly overshadow the good years. As a result, Joseph directed the government of Egypt to build barns to store all of the grain from the good years which was used to save Egypt and Israel from the 7 years of famine. Unlike all of the global warming proponents, his prophesy was proven to be true. We should all follow his example.