More hot air from the U.N.

More hot air from the U.N.
Exclusive: Hal Lindsey interprets global warming scare with Jesus' words

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fourth and latest report on the state of scientific knowledge on global warming concluded that human activity – primarily increased greenhouse gas concentrations due to fossil-fuel burning – is "very likely" responsible for the overall increase in global surface temperatures.

Right after the report was released, Arctic temperatures plunged most of the northern hemisphere into a deep freeze. Upstate New York is still digging out from a snowstorm that dumped as much as 10 feet of snow in a matter of days.

Sub-freezing temperatures were recorded from Southern California to Southern Florida, destroying as much as 80 percent of the citrus fruit in the affected areas.

The week Al Gore unveiled his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," predicting catastrophic effects from global warming, was the coldest day in New York City history.

That is not to say that temperatures haven't been rising. The two hottest years on record were 1998 and 2005. But the U.N. is talking about permanent climate change.

And that is where meteorologists differ in their opinions. For example, the UNIPCC report cites an increase in the frequency and intensity of hurricane activity since the 1970s as evidence of permanent climate change.

Meteorologists point out that a similarly severe increase in hurricane activity also occurred during the 1930s and 1940s before subsiding for three decades. In the '30s, nearly a decade of severe heat and drought in the Midwest was symbolized by the nickname, "Oklahoma Dust Bowl."

They were talking about global warming then, too. But then the weather patterns shifted the other way, and in the '60s and early '70s, scientists were warning of a coming Ice Age.

The U.N. assessment is based on weather forecasts extending 50 years or more into the future. Anybody who has ever relied on the accuracy of a 10-day forecast knows a prediction extending beyond the day after tomorrow is just an educated guess subject to change.

What is significant is not whether or not the climate is actually changing. God promised us in Genesis 8:22, "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."

When answering the question "What will be the sign of Thy Coming," Jesus warned, not of global climate change, but rather, of the fear of global climate change in the last days.

In Luke 21:25-26, Jesus warned, "And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring." That certainly captures the global warming controversy in a nutshell: "the distress of nations, with perplexity."

Jesus continued, saying, "Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken."

Now consider the controversy again. Nobody knows for sure if global warming is permanent, or just part of a normal weather cycle. We've only been keeping records for about a hundred years.

But to read the newspapers, one would think the sky is falling. Global warming advocates are shouting, "Something must be done" before we know what that "something" really is – and without a clue what it is that "must be done."

Global warming proponents declare as fact that in 50 years, half of Florida will be under water. The coastlines will shrink by 50 miles, putting most of the world's coastal cities under water.

But nobody can be absolutely sure if it is real. Nobody has any way of know if it is permanent. And the cause, if there is one, is a matter of scientific dispute.

Since 2000, solar eruptions have broken all standing records, both in frequency and intensity. With each solar storm, scientists warned of communications disruptions, dangerous radiation and other unspecified but dire consequences.

Are man-made greenhouse gases affecting the sun 93 million miles away? Jesus didn't warn of global warming, He warned of the perception of global warming.

He also warned, "And when these things BEGIN to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh." (Luke 21:28) Jesus made His prediction 2000 years ago.

But you still can't trust the Weather Channel's 10-day forecast – which is both distressing and perplexing. But it is the weather forecast that has everybody's hearts palpitating.

Coincidence? I don't think so.