Posted on 09/16/2025 1:48:30 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN
For as long as humans have walked the Earth, we have adapted to the forces of nature. Our species has survived ice ages, scorching droughts, violent storms, and even near-extinction events. We’ve done so not because we controlled nature, but because we learned to live with it — to adjust, to innovate, and to endure. Our greatest strengths have always been our intelligence and our adaptability.
So when we’re told today that climate change represents an existential crisis, one that can only be solved through radical restructuring of our lives, our freedoms, and our economies, it’s not unreasonable to pause and ask a simple question: Why now?
Yes, the climate is changing — no serious person denies that. The Earth’s climate has been in constant motion for millions of years. Polar ice has melted and returned. Oceans have risen and fallen. Ecosystems have shifted and rebalanced. None of this is new. What is new is how the issue of climate change is being used as a justification for sweeping, top-down control over the lives of everyday people.
Governments around the world are using climate rhetoric to impose restrictions that, just decades ago, would have seemed unthinkable. Bans on gas-powered vehicles. Regulations that make traditional heating and cooling unaffordable. Pressure to alter our diets, change how we travel, where we live, what we consume. Meanwhile, those in power continue flying in private jets, building beachfront homes, and investing in carbon-heavy industries. The message to ordinary citizens is clear: “Do as we say, not as we do.”
Many people who express skepticism about this agenda are accused of “denying the science.” But science is not scripture. It is not infallible. It is a process — a tool — carried out by human beings. And human beings can be wrong. They can be influenced. They can be paid. History is full of examples: scientists funded by the tobacco industry who said smoking was safe; nutritionists backed by sugar companies who downplayed the dangers of processed foods; pharmaceutical firms who buried data on addictive drugs. The fact that “science” is cited does not mean the conversation is over — it means the conversation has just begun.
If the last 60 years have taught us anything, it’s that doomsday predictions are often wrong. In the 1970s, we were told global cooling was inevitable. In the 1980s, acid rain was going to destroy agriculture. In the 1990s, the ozone hole was going to collapse the biosphere. Each time, the threat was described as urgent, undeniable, and just around the corner. Each time, sweeping government action was proposed. And each time, the catastrophe either didn’t come — or came in a form far less dramatic than advertised.
Today, climate change is used to justify policies that limit personal freedom, raise costs for working families, and increase government power — all in the name of “saving the planet.” Yet the real threats we face, like decaying infrastructure, unaffordable healthcare, or failing education systems, are often ignored or underfunded. It’s fair to wonder: If the goal is really to protect the future, why not focus on the problems that impact people’s lives right now?
This isn’t denialism — it’s discernment. It’s the refusal to give up liberty in exchange for vague promises. It's a reminder that healthy skepticism is not the enemy of truth — it is the foundation of it.
In the end, people are not afraid of change. They’re afraid of being lied to, of being controlled, of being forced into a future they didn’t choose by people they don’t trust. That’s not climate denial. That’s human nature — and the instinct to survive.
And that instinct, as history shows, is always stronger than fear.
Interesting you don’t understand a rhetorical comment.
If you want to take it literally, ok. So try to find one prediction that came true, and I’ll make it easy for you - limit to the last 50 years, you don’t have to go through all the climate change predictions throughout the “entire world history.”
4. Blacks started capturing other blacks (and selling them into slavery) when Africa experienced horrible mega droughts during the Little Ice Age and started taking over each other's land (IMHO to try to get some more food). Until that point, as Thomas Sowell points out, virtually all slaves since the beginning of time were the same race as their masters.
5. Chattel slavery was abolished here and in England at the bottom of the Little Ice Age even when an argument could be made that it was at the highest demand for slavery. (Crops don't pick themselves, especially when crops are hard to grow to begin with.) IMHO, the Christian abolitionist movement doesn't get enough credit not only for the abolition, but at a time that bucks the trend of abusing others more when even sensible people are desperate.
6. England (and to some degree the U.S.) was able to use the next century to push almost the entire rest of the world to abolish chattel slavery too. Perhaps it was easier because that was during the Modern Warm period.
7. By the way, the Ottoman Empire had millions of white slaves captured from Europe (not just the ones in the loosely affiliated North African Barbary states that us Americans talk about during the last decades of the Little Ice Age who were capturing American ships and making Americans slaves until we created the U.S. Navy and taught them Muslim pirates the FAFO). The North African Berbers had anywhere from half a million to 1.2 million white slaves during the Little Ice Age, almost all of which came from making slave raids directly up into Europe. Those slaves were freed after the Barbary Wars in early 19th century, but the slaves in the Ottoman Empire weren't truly freed up until the Balkan Wars and WW1.
8. When the Ottoman Empire was broken up after WW1 and new nations were created, eventually after WW2 the new nation of Israel was recreated. And unlike the centuries of Ottoman rule, the Jews made Israel an agricultural marvel for the middle east. Was that God? Hard work? Modern Warm Period (crop yields improve, rain patterns more predictable, less deaths by plague)? Combination of the above?
If you want to take it literally, ok. So try to find one prediction that came true, and I’ll make it easy for you - limit to the last 50 years, you don’t have to go through all the climate change predictions throughout the “entire world history.”
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Nah, You win. I lose.
Wish you well
I was aware of the slave history but had not thought to connect it to the weather. It makes sense.
For thousands of years people were peasants, surfs, or slaves. In many societies there were subtle differences, but from our perspective they weren’t much different.
I was thinking just today how lucky I am to have been born in this time and in America. People are so wrapped up in how “bad” this or that is. Can’t afford a home. Gas is expensive, etc. We seldom take time to realize the poorest person in America is better off than probably 95% of all the humans who ever lived.
Please use the term “global warming” as it has been used for many years and is the original term. “Climate change” is not only redundant it is a meaningless made-up expression to appease all the crooks in the scam weather business around the planet. It is long past time to take back the narrative from the left who just makes stuff up fraudulently, thanks!
And Michael Mann should be in prison for fraud.
See what I mean?
In Europe, when the second to last glacier (Riss) melted about 150,000 years ago, there was a long (~20,000 years) interglacial (Riss-Wurm), which was actually quite warmer than the present time interglacial (Wurm-???).
Humans took advantage of it, and spread North, all the way to Scandinavia.
Then the Wurm glacier hit and people disappeared not only from glaciated area, but even from the no glaciated Central Europe, which turned into cold tundra, not suitable for life of primitive people of that time.
People survived (barely) the Wurm epoch only at the southmost (Spain, Italy, Greece) Europe.
Then, some 11,000 years ago, Wurm glacier suddenly melted and people quickly moved back North!
I am actually wondering, how will they call the next glacial? And present epoch? (Wurm-???)
Now if you're interested in the Bible and slavery, there's something I hadn't thought of until I read some of Pastor Theodore Weld's Bible Against Slavery. I can't remember the micro details, but the cliff notes is that slavery among the Jews, with the rules regarding slavery as set in the Law of Moses, comes down to what in our history would be closer to voluntary servitude. Look at the setting of the price of a slave relative to how many years are left until the Year of Jubilee. And the option at times for the slave to leave, or choose to stay. And if circumcised were even allowed to take part in Passover (contrasted with here in the south the blacks had to go to a separate church service). Plus laws giving other rights to slaves to protect them from violence. Completely differently, by the way, from the much more barbaric version of slavery that was in Canaan before the Jews got there.
Likewise, slavery in the OT was completely unlike the slavery here with the mantra "it's not a person it's property".
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