Global Climate Weather

     When I was in grade school the great fear was nuclear war, in high school it was overpopulation and return of an ice age. After all, an ice age would be much harder on Americans living in insulated homes and wearing Under Armor than it was on our nomadic, fur wearing ancestors.  In an obscene way abortion helped the overpopulation problem, in addition to the issues connected with allowing millions of mothers to murder their children, there are now not enough young people being born to support our world's aging population.  This was, for some, an unintended consequence, but for those willing to overlook murder, it was probably not worth consideration.  Now the great fear is "global warming", oops, make that "climate change".
     The term "global warming" has become somewhat unpopular as people are noticing that the weather is colder than before "global warming".  The response of the scientific community was an immediate retraction and apology--couldn't resist a little joke there.  The response of the alarmists was that the presence of colder weather proved their point.  I never had the privilege of taking logic, but I call that logical fallacy the "exactly" argument.  That is when an argument is given that totally refutes the opponent's premise and he says "exactly", as if that has somehow proved his point. But since the population at large had a hard time understanding warmer to mean colder, it was just easier to come up with a new term--"climate change".
     Once again I do not know rules of logic but I know it is unfair to rename your premise so that anything that happens is said to support it.  Even two year olds argue with better reasoning than that.  The fact is, weather is always changing, sometimes in cycles, sometimes randomly and man has very little to do with it. I can verify the fickleness of weather from my 54 years of experience.  Our newlywed winters of '77 and '78 were exceptionally cold, the early 90's mild, '96 a winter of deep snow.  Whether you liked or hated the weather, everyone understood that there was nothing you could do about it.
     Climate change advocates believe the problem is industrialized nations and SUVs, however, one decent sized hiccup from a volcano can put more emissions into the atmosphere than we could if every human on the planet drove an SUV.  And our efforts to reduce the world's carbon footprint will be about as effective as tossing a virgin down the volcano to stop the eruption.  I talked with a man in Arizona whose personal theory for why this winter was the coldest in his 23 years there, was that the earthquake in Indonesia has slightly shifted the Earth's axis.  My own theory is that God is laughing at us.  "I'll show you global warming." Global warming conferences in normally warm locations have been called off because of snow.
      I know God appreciates irony because it appears many places in the Bible, best displayed in the book of Esther.  Though God works entirely behind the scenes, Haman is forced to honor his hated enemy Mordecai with the honor he has chosen for himself, and hung on the gallows he had built for Mordecai.  God turned the day designated for the destruction of the Jews into an opportunity for the Jews to overcome their enemies.
     I am just glad the climate change experts weren't around during the long winter of 1888, the eruption of Krakatoa or the dust bowl years.  Since there were no SUVs to blame or jets to attend global summits, they would have proclaimed the end of civilization.  So if you are suffering under a cold and snowy winter like I am, perhaps for the first time, don't blame your neighbor's Suburban, blame the"climate change" experts, blame Al Gore, or simply accept the fact that weather is one of the many things man has no control over.  You might even enjoy the irony.  It's not all that often that Jehovah tells a joke.