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If only we could be sure that there will be global protection against certain destruction.

Well, when you listen to what scientists say, instead of politicians and activists, you discover that global warming is pseudoscience. And I’m not talking about scientists who do government sponsored experiments on lab rats, monkeys, and bacteria. But I am talking about physicists and astronomers and biologists.

They might help you see global protection differently.

For example, watch this video of Professor Ivar Giaever, the 1973 Nobel Prizewinner for Physics, tear down the global warming “religion.”

Did you catch the part where Professor Giaever mentioned how water is much conducts heat much better than CO2? And what covers 70% of planet earth? Some sort of liquid isn’t it? Oh yeah…water!

Global warming has only increased by .8 degrees in over one hundred years.

And as the good professor pointed out, that shows an amazingly stable worldwide environment we inhabit. As a Christian (yes, that’s a religion) I also understand and trust God when he says “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease.”

That’s just one more example, in a book of thousands of examples, of God’s love and promises for us.

Humans can do, and have done, amazing things. But we’ll never be able to destroy planet earth. God will take care of creating a new heaven and a new earth when He’s through with this one.

If you’re not a Christian, it might sound like a fairy tale. I get that. But if you ARE a Christian, His words should bring you comfort and wisdom. The wisdom to latch onto the Truth in the Bible and be able to see pseudoscience for what it is. Rebellion against God. And that’s too bad. Because that leads to another kind of “warming” where there’ll never be any global protection.

Worldview

Masterplans and incidents
Faster man…more accidents
What does this all mean? Could be soylent green.

Trolley cars to rocket ships
Honesty…insider tips
Do you catch my drift? The paradigm did shift.

It’s a worldview that’s not for me and you.
It’s a worldview and no empirical thoughts.
Yeah, it’s a worldview. What’s a humanist to do?
Don’t you see you could be in tougher spots?
You gotta be mindful where you cast your lots.
It’s a worldview.

CrackerJack and Disneyland
Scorin’ crack and lyrics banned
Gets better everyday…just cast those sins away.
Right and wrong? Who thought of that?
Some guys who thought the world was flat?
Now we’ve learned to see. “No one’s the boss of me.”   Chorus

Givin’ up, givin’ in…not a whimper, no shout.
Now the climate is warm, and the fools come out.
Get in touch with yourself and the innermost child…
And the “still small voice” is cast away; exiled.   repeat chorus   © 2002 TF

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If you wanna get somebody to do whatever you tell them to, whenever you want them to, then fear is the key. Because somebody’s who’s afraid of you or what you might do to them is so much easier to control.

I learned how fear is the key way back in the 7th grade.

Because I was what, these days, you might call a nerd. Or a geek. Or gearhead, dork, or wonkhead. Doesn’t matter. They’re just words. And I was in what they called “accelerated” classes. Because I took some tests in grade school that said I was too brainy for the normal school lessons.

So, they put me in those classes. And “normal” kids called me those names.

Fun stuff. Good times.

Anyway…

The name calling sort of led to why I mentioned how I learned fear is the key to controlling people. Yeah, there were a couple of guys in one of my normal classes who got their jollies from bullying me. And I was the kind of guy who preferred to avoid confrontations. Because I was at school to learn. Not fight.

But none of that mattered to the bully boys. They sat behind me so they could smack me in the head if I even thought about not letting them cheat off me. One guy was a smart aleck who was basically the same size as me. But the other guy was a big dude.

They’d whisper how, if I didn’t let them see my answers to test questions, they wait for me after school, and…well, maybe you can imagine. I sure could.

So, I’d accommodate them. Most of the time. But sometimes I’d do something to get out of showing them my papers. And then I’d make sure to take a different way home after school. And that went on most of my 7th grade year.

But in the 8th grade something happened that changed my whole outlook. Be sure to ask me what that was.

I think you’ll get a kick out of the story.

Anyway, here’s another example of how fear is the key to control. Check out these climate change headlines:

  • The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it.
  • A study released last month by two NOAA scientists that the amount of sunshine reaching the ground in the continental U.S. changed by 1.3%
  • Telltale signs are everywhere…the thickness of polar ice…animal migration
  • Global temperature must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind

Can you say #Yikes?

But here’s the thing. Those headlines were all about global cooling. Yep. The Earth wasn’t getting hotter. It was getting cooler. And many goofballs predicted an ice age where the whole Earth, and most or all of the people, would freeze to death.

Unless “we do something now.”

But guess what that means. OK, no need to guess. Because I’ll tell you. It means somebody wants more money from good people who work hard and raise kids and make the world a better place. And they know fear is the key to getting you to go along.

But here’s the key to not falling for THAT key. Trust God who says “do not fear.” Plus, God promises that global warming, or cooling, or so-called climate change won’t end the world. So, here’s what I say to kids (or their owners) whenever I can:

God is great, and God is strong.
And He made all there is.
So don’t fear this fearful world.
Remember, champ, you’re His.
If He says a thing is so,
Then you can bet it’s true.
Trust His promise to us all.
And trust Him to come through. © 2015

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Wow. August the first. And this month started out the same way July ended. HOT! Blazing, triple digits hot. A/C running almost continuously all day hot. And did I mention it was hot?

I just looked at my weather app. August the first ain’t the end of it.

I’m in the heart of the heartland of America now. But 10 years ago, on August the first, it was a whole ‘nother story. Here’s what I wrote about THAT day:

“Then, in the evening things cooled off with some rain and mountain breezes. Ahh…it’s so great to live in a place that can be in the 90’s during the day and cool off into the low 60’s at night. If you’re like me, you might enjoy the scent of rain sprinkling on the lawn and quenching the thirsty streets. Here at the FunderRanch we love to sleep with the windows open so the night breezes fill the room. It’s so much more refreshing than plain ol’ air conditioning.”

Yeah, that makes me homesick for Colorado. For sure. But I don’t let climate change (and that’s what climate always does, it changes) ruin my day, week, month, or year. Because I know “to everything there is a season.” The Byrds told me so.

And August always takes me back to some nostalgic summertime memories like…

  • the last barefoot days of the season
  • a train trip from Kansas to Texas
  • getting new school clothes
  • looking forward to all my new school supplies
  • cooler weather

So, here’s my favorite part about August the first.

It marks the beginning of the end of the hot weather. Sure, there’s still 30 more days of August. And September can have some hot days, too. But then the cool, crisp days of Autumn swoop in from the Northwest and revive me.

That’s why I wrote…

The August sky is full of colors
And sometimes drops of rain.
It makes me think of bygone summers
And riding on a train.
The golden sun, like Kansas wheat,
Would bake the fields of corn,
And I bucked endless bales of hay
And all my jeans were torn.
I still remember pools of blue
And going to “the game.”
My bike was candy apple red
And “Flyer” was its name.
So many memories are there
Up in the August sky.
The colors still shine brightly
As I watch the years fly by.  © 2013

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I’m sharing an account of what happened on D Day back in 1944. And when you get to the end of that part, be sure to check out a comparison story.

The sunrise on June 6, 1944 (D Day) brought with it wave after wave of landing vessels. And they carried more than 150,000 American, British, Canadian, and French ground troops. They were the ones who stormed fifty miles of coastline, in Northern France, that the Germans fiercely defended.

Strong currents pushed the Americans 2,000 yards south of Utah Beach. And that forced them to march that distance back to the intended landing areas to seize German fortifications.

But they still secured Utah by the evening of D Day.

The Germans were aware of the importance of the sector designated Omaha Beach. And they knew the Allies would need to connect and secure the beachheads together. So, they made certain it was heavily defended. Fortifications and elevated terrain meant the American landing on Omaha would be the bloodiest that day.

4426 casualties is the official number for that bloody day. Men stormed beaches with artillery, machine guns, and bombs from planes filling the air. That had to be mighty scary stuff. But they still moved ahead courageously, in the middle of all that chaos. Because they fought for freedom.

Now.

Keep those D Day pictures in your head as I share what unimaginable horrors the world faces in this much more modern age. Horrors known, collectively, as “climate change.”

Here’s a paragraph, from an article I found, that talks about the consequences of foolish human existence in such a fragile world. This is scary stuff. Prepare yourself.

This paragraph talks about what happens if ocean currents change.

_ A shutdown of that ocean current could dramatically alter phenomena as varied as global weather patterns and crop yields. Messing with complex systems is chilling precisely because there are so many levers: If the temperature of the sea surface changes, precipitation over the Amazon might too, contributing to its deforestation, which in turn has been linked to snowfall on the Tibetan plateau. We may not even realize when we start passing points of no return—or if we already have. “It’s kind of like stepping into a minefield,” Armstrong McKay said. “We don’t want to find out where these things are by triggering them.” _

That’s the kind of nonsense “they” use in public schools to scare kids. Notice how things “might” happen. And how it’s all tied together. So, if one part fails, the whole world fails. And we “may not even realize when we start passing points of no return. Or if we already have.

But it’s one thing to scare kids. It’s quite another thing for actual adults to buy into such fear tactics. As the older folks used to say, “You’re old enough to know better.” And to help offset all those Negative Nancy’s out there, here’s a rhyme for the kiddos:

In This Life

You might win a few things in this life,
And you might even win a whole lot.
But you’ll lose everything if you don’t trust the King
Who has given you all that He’s got.

Know that nothing is too hard for God.
He can help you through all of your fears.
If your gold turns to rust, or your diamonds to dust,
Only God can dry all of your tears.

Make the most of the moments you have.
They fly by in the blink of an eye.
Don’t waste time in the dark, jump inside of the ark
Of God’s love. Kiss the old life goodbye.

© 2015

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Climate changes. It’s always done that. And it always will. Well, until that final climate climax when the whole Earth is consumed in a ball of fire. But not to worry. That probably won’t happen for at least another 1007 years. Give or take.

Oh yeah, just so you know, you won’t have any control over that climate climax.

Nope. You can drive your huge carbon emissions vehicle 24 hours a day for the rest of your life and have zero control over, or impact on, the coming climate climax.

And the same is true for the billions of other people on Earth, too. But I realize I’m an optimist. And I realize I have hope for the future. Plus, I understand how most people are the total opposite of me. So, my take on the coming climate climax won’t be their pot of molten lava. No problem. Whatever.

Nothing will EVER get me to look at the future as dystopian. And I can say that for one profound reason. I believe the Bible, and I trust the One who wrote it. I’m going with Jesus who tells me “fear not.” Not someone who writes this:

“One grim paper that came out last year is titled ‘Climate End Game.’ It mapped out some of the potential catastrophes that could follow a ‘tipping cascade.’ And it considered the possibility that ‘a sudden shift in climate could trigger systems failures that unravel societies across the globe.’ Chris Field, the director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and a contributor to several IPCC reports, warned that ‘at some point, the impacts of the climate crisis may become so severe that we lose the ability to work together to deliver solutions.’

Well, on the one hand, as a global society we’ve never had “the ability to work together to deliver solution.” So, why would anyone think that could start now or end now? Silliness really.

Then, on the other hand (the right hand), compare that talk to this statement:

“While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease.” If that was just some farmer from Kansas making that bold statement, you might quote Robert Duvall’s character from the original True Grit movie, starring John Wayne.

The Duke’s character had just told him, “I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned. Or see you hanged in Fort Smith, at Judge Parker’s convenience. Which’ll it be?” And Ned’s response would be the quote you might use to respond to the Seedtime and harvest statement:

“I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!”

Yeah, it’s bold talk, these days, to say there will be no climate climax to end this world. But I trust the words my Creator wrote universally more than anything anyone in the climate scare community writes or ever will write.

So, take it from a two-eyed average-framed fella:

Live your life with hope and optimism. And find out about the author of the Bible. Because He’s the only one who can save you from an eternal “global warming.”

Here’s an ode I wrote to illustrate the lunacy from certain people of influence:

Secretary Kerry said that things are gettin’ badder.
Better pay attention ’cause your gases really matter.
He said that warming causes freezing, and it must be true
‘Cause even with the sun above the sky is cold and blue.
“The world has only nine more years,” he said without a smile.
But all this kind of talk of his has gone on for a while.
He spewed out all this garbage, and he spewed out carbon, too.
A hundred tons of it each year. You know? Like me and you.
Oh wait, we don’t fly private jets around the world and back.
We only drive our cars to jobs that underwrite this quack.
But maybe we won’t have to work in only nine more years.
Because we’ll either all burn up or drown in leftist tears.
But just in case, in ten years, we can live on Earth safely,
I hope we have more open eyes to this hypocrisy.

© 2021

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Fires burn down beautiful places. Volcanoes erupt and destroy communities. Hurricanes blast entire cities. Tornadoes uproot even the heartiest of trees. Mudslides annihilate peaceful homes that were minding their own business. And through it all the Earth remains.

Yeah, the Earth remains through this blistering hot summer.

And it’ll remain through this coming cold winter.

So, you can fear what might happen, if you wanna. But I’m just not gonna join you in that whole fear thing. For one, it’s totally counter-productive. And, oh yeah, God says “fear not.” And “worry not.”

A few years ago I shared this about that:

Fact is…when you believe and trust in God, He gives you a spirit of power. And love. And a sound mind. That’s a mind based on reason, sense, or judgment. Full of competence and security. When you feel the opposite of that description, you’ve moved away from, or you’ve forgotten what God says about you.

But that doesn’t mean you’re doomed. If it did, you and I and everybody else would be doomed. Don’t throw your hands up in despair or frustration. Instead, turn around and ask God for more wisdom. He loves to give it to those who love Him.

And remember His promise about this planet we call home. “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease.” Only the fool complains about it.

Get Wise

Don’t drink the wine of violence
Or eat the bread of hate.
You might just get away with it.
Can you afford to wait?

Don’t push and shove the simple.
Seek knowledge just like gold.
And in so doing you’ll lay up
Your treasures manifold.

A word to the confounded”
Pour light into your eyes.
If you expect more than neglect,
Get wisdom; yeah get wise.

Get wise to the deceiver.
Don’t harken to his lies.
Keep commanding understanding.
Get wisdom; yeah get wise.

Don’t walk, you, with the wicked.
Beware the scornful tongue.
Let never part your loving heart
And live forever young.

© 1995

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More chapters have been added to the climate change fairy tale. And you can expect more to come. Because the enemy of Truth is tireless in his attempts to pervert and subvert data.

And they love to write the climate change fairy tale in hot weather.

Because that’s when more people will actually believe we’re all gonna be incinerated in a fiery explosion of greenhouse gases. Especially those people who live in the asphalt jungles.

They (those who want you to fear) will tell you “projections of climate change” have been “remarkably accurate at predicting the rate at which global temperatures would rise.” And they’ll say things like “for decades, climate change has proceeded at roughly the expected pace.”

Yeah, they’ll share their data calmly. With a cool demeanor (irony intended). Until they get to what they call the “consequences of our actions.” Then, it’s Katy bar the door. Fear must be served. So, fear-filled adverbs, adjectives, nouns, and verbs flow like Niagara Falls in the Spring. Like these examples:

  • The Southwest is sweltering under a heat dome.
  • Vermont saw a deluge of rain, its second 100-year storm in roughly a decade.
  • Early July brought the hottest day globally since records began…surpassed again the following day.
  • We may be careening toward so-called tipping points
  • Incremental steps along the same trajectory could push Earth’s systems into abrupt or irreversible change

The so-called scientists, who peddle the climate change fairy tale, want you to believe your evil use of natural resources plays a huge role in their doomsday scenario. But I doubt you’ll ever hear them talk about the 42 million tires being burned, right out in the open, in Kuwait. Yeah, that seems harmless. As long as you watch your thermostat.

Just in case you think I exaggerate their agenda, check this out.

“Some natural systems, if upended, could herald a restructuring of the world.”

A restructuring of the world? And I’M the exaggerator? Yeah, right.

Need more? Seriously?

How about when their climate change fairy tale talks about the sea levels? Yeah, they love to talk about melting glaciers and ice caps and snow caps. And they love to slip in their absolutes: “which would guarantee the glacier’s eventual collapse. How that plays out will help determine how much sea levels will rise, and thus the future of millions of people.”

Uh-oh. The future of millions of people. THEY said that. But it’s ME who exaggerates?

If you live long enough, and I have, AND you pay attention, you’ll see total opposite fairy tales. Yep, in the not-too-distant-past Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock) talked about the “coming ice age.” And he said it could happen quickly. Within the lives of “our children or grandchildren.” He was young enough, at that time, that it could have meant in his own lifetime, too.

But the years came and went. And the ice age melted into global warming. And that gave way to the climate change fairy tale. Because this story has to be told, over and over. After all, that’s how kids and grandkids grow up in fear.

I’m thankful that God gave me a spirit of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

This minute is your minute.
Go ahead and jump in it.
One sparkle and one twinkle,
One snowflake and one sprinkle.
Be sunny and be cheerful.
Skip worried and skip fearful.
Keep smiling and keep living.
This minute is for giving.

©  2013  (May 13)

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