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It appears that American radio evangelists are not the only ones to give false predictions about the end of the world. Recently, evangelist Harold Camping falsely predicted that the world would end at 6pm on May 21st. But here we still are! For centuries people have been prophesying the end of the world. All of them have been wrong! The oldest surviving prediction of the world’s imminent demise was found inscribed upon an Assyrian clay tablet which stated: "Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. There are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end.” The prediction is dated 2,800BC. It could have been written yesterday. The funniest prediction occurred in 1809 when Mary Bateman, who specialised in fortune telling, had a magic chicken that laid eggs with end-time messages on them. One message said that Christ was coming. The uproar she created ended when an unannounced visitor caught her forcing an egg into the hen's oviduct. These days there are a lot of people trying to force a magic egg into the rectum of society – man-made climate change. Do I believe in climate change? Yes, I certainly do. But how much man is to blame for this is still not conclusive. Climate has always changed. The earth has lived through five “glacial ages” the most recent of them, known as the ice age, was about 20,000 years ago – well before man-made carbon emissions. A glacial age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the earth’s surface and atmosphere resulting in the expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. The time between glacial ages is known as the interglacial period during which the earth’s temperature warms and ice sheets shrink. This has happened for thousands of years. We’re living in an interglacial period now. I repeat, I do believe in climate change. I also believe that, where possible, humans should reduce the amount of pollution we pump into the atmosphere. The problem with linking them together though is that it provides a breeding ground for alarmists who are trying to push their political agenda at the expense of Australia’s economy (and the economies of other nations too). These same alarmists have been pushing their magic eggs for over a decade. But we’re starting to see the eggs crack. For example, the United Nations said there would be 50,000 climate refugees by, um … last year. They’ve now changed that to 2020. In 2000, the Climatic Research Unit said snow would be a thing of the past in England by now. James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said the Westside Highway in New York would be underwater by now. Also, the Arctic Ocean was supposed to be free of summer sea-ice by 2008. Others have now changed this to 2030, some to 2080. The same false predictions have been made for increases in sea levels and global temperatures that have not increased anywhere near the amounts suggested by alarmists. If you want to read more on this then simply Google “False climate change predictions.” You’ll be amazed at the amount of real information there is on this subject.
Now, can we please remove the magic egg? Trackback(0)
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  written by Jud Field, June 01, 2011
It's very frustrating to not be able to just tackle pollution but to have this weird link to carbon dioxide, the stuff plants thrive on, literally taxing the air we breathe.
Yet the volcano that just blew in Iceland, in just four days negated all the efforts to control our Co2 emissions for the last five years. Just one volcano.. There are currently 200 active volcanos around the world... And the clincher...Mt Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines in 1991, it spewed out more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the entire human race has emitted in it's entire time on earth. I'm all for not polluting and looking after creation, but tell me why do we need a massive economy ruining new tax again.. report abuse
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 written by pearl wesley, June 09, 2011
Very good pastor rob we all know that the earth;s always changing plants and animals
etc are always changing and growing in fact everything that God spoke into being he is still creating and in God's word doesn;t it say how God will come back to earth when it;s time so we should not speculate and say when the earth will cease to excist we should stand fast and wait patiently for Jesus to return and stop worrying when the earth will cease, for we all don;t know the times or when for that is for God to know not us we should stop worrying look to Jesus the outhor of our faith in him. report abuse
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 written by Christopher, February 03, 2012
I agree. Most people don't take climate change seriously anymore because of all the alarmism. I think it's just difficult to believe that climate change could "end the world" as we know it (see http://tinyurl.com/3cxdouj & http://tinyurl.com/7yezx26 & http://tinyurl.com/82qjew7 ). Reasonable estimates for temp. increase are about 3 C, at the high end, by the end of this century, i.e., 90 years from now, which wouldn't be good but it's hardly the end of the world. Same with rising sea levels: reasonable predictions suggest a rise by the end of the century that will be more than manageable.
More to the point, if you're really worried about the end of the world, it can easily happen, and not in 90 years but in less than 90 minutes. In 30 minutes in fact. 20 years after the fall of the U.S.S.R. and the end of the cold war, 1000s of multi-megaton thermonuclear weapons remain on high alert. The chances of an accidental small or all out massive nuclear exchange are far from zero and we've had several very close calls w/in the last 50 years, the most serious in 1994 when Yeltsin actually had to open his nuclear football to enter launch release codes before they figured out that the missile their early warning radar was tracking was carrying a weather station into space. Today, the U.S. & Russia have a combined strategic nuclear force of about 6000 multi-megaton thermonuclear weapons, 3000 on each side, not counting reserves after a first strike or retaliation. An attack with just two 1-megaton nuclear warheads would unleash explosive power equivalent to that caused by all the bombs used during World War II. Today, each of these 6000 multi-megaton weapons on high alert are at least 1-2 megtons and hundreds are in the 5-10 megaton range (designed to obliterate large cities, e.g., NYC, Chicago, etc., and kill 10 million people in quarter of a second). http://www.nucleardarkness.org works through the consequences of even a small exchange. Where as climate change predicts, at worst, a 2-3 C rise in global temp. over the coming century, a small nuclear exchange would drop global temps of at least that w/in 24 hours. An out all exchange would drop temps by up to 10 C. Basically, this will be a man made ice-age, and it would only take a few hours to create it, killing 100s of millions in the process and ending both civilization and history w/in the same time frame. Oh, and radioactive fallout would blanket much of the planet. Steven Starr, senior scientist with Physicians for Social Responsibility, said research makes clear the environmental consequences of a U.S.-Russian nuclear war: “If these weapons are detonated in the large cities of either of their nations, they will cause such catastrophic damage to the global environment that the Earth will become virtually uninhabitable for most humans and many other complex forms of life.” And it would only take 24 hours to create these conditions. Climate change has nothing on accidental or deliberate nuclear war. Why haven't we had an accidental exchange? We've been lucky, many times, but if you keep doing something dangerous, sooner or later, your luck runs out. We need to de-alert these massive weapon systems now. We need serious disarmament now. For those of us old enough to remember the cold war days . . . climate change is a problem but hardly the end of the world . . . report abuse
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Was that a "pop" I heard? Another magic egg de-rectumized.
God's laughing.