Soap Box

When Al Gore released his �An Inconvenient Truth� movie a few years ago he opened up a can of worms that crawl the earth to this day.

Let me preface this column by first of all admitting that I don't believe in man made global warming, that the temperature of this and every other planet is controlled by the hand of the Creator and that it is arrogant for man to think he could assume that role for either bad or good purposes.

I do not deny that the earth warms and cools but that is a natural occurrence that has taken place since the earth was created and will continue as long as the world exists.

My source, The Holy Bible "As long as the earth endures, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease." � Genesis 8:22.

Thus has it been and thus shall it ever be as long as earth endures and though man can certainly contribute to making the earth a better place to live he will never be able to bring the global temperature up or down by as much as one degree, greenhouse gases and other factors notwithstanding.

Now the name of the �problem� has been changed from �global warming� to �climate change,� an innocuous title that can be stretched in either direction to accommodate a record snowfall or a record heat wave and any of the numerous natural geological anomalies can be incorporated into the catch all "climate change".

For over one hundred years the global warming, global cooling, climate change crowd have vacillated several times between global heat that would melt the polar ice caps and global freezing which would bring on a new ice age.

Please don't take my word for this or any of the rest of the information I use in this column, as it is easily accessible, just do some research on your own.

First of all, global warming, climate change or whatever the nom du jour, has little to do with the weather on Planet Earth and almost everything to do with scaring the heck out of the population so they will be willing to allow global bureaucracies and enforcement agencies to be created to deal with it, all at our expense naturally.

So who do they come after? Why the most ecologically compliant nations who just happen to be the most prosperous nations on earth, all but ignoring the real offenders of China, Russia, India, practically all of the oil rich Middle East, the destitute nations of Africa, where almost continual war has created deforestation causing dust bowls, and unmanageable refugee problems.

They show you heart-tugging pictures of struggling polar bears floating around on little ice Islands, never telling you that this is normal behavior for polar bears which are capable of swimming 75 to 100 miles and go wherever the food is, never stymied by open water.

They tell you that it's "settled science" knowing full well that two out of the three imminent, world class scientists at the recent Mombasa conference disputed the "settled science".

They don't tell you that the Global Historical Climate Network, a U.S. Government entity, has been adjusting the temperature findings to reflect a warming trend. Proven by Paul Homewood, who recorded the actual temperatures in several locations and found them to reflect different numbers than the ones reported by the GHCN.

They want you to forget about the leaked emails from the UK�s University of East Anglia�s Climate Research Unit which show that these climate researchers were conspiring to �adjust� temperatures up and down in their findings to support the claims of man made warming.

In a perfect world and an administration that was motivated by truly serving the American public rather than trying to gain more power would have exposed this and punished the guilty parties.

And folks, that's what this whole thing is about, globalization, income redistribution and centralization of power, control over every aspect of public and personal life, a scare tactic, predicated on a lie and promoted by the same people who assured you that "there's not a smidgen of corruption at the IRS", that "you can keep your own doctor period", that ISIS was a �JV team".

The theory so soundly endorsed by Al Gore and his ilk is falling apart and you aren't likely to read about it in the New York Times or see a CBS special on the subject, so if you want the truth just start digging around for yourself.

Check the history of the movement, check all of the latest findings and consider what the politicians pushing this hoax have to gain and what you and your kids and grandkids have to lose.

It will be a sobering experience.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels