We have had a few years of catastrophic earthquakes, floods, and devastating wild fires world wide. The “peaceful” religion of Islam continues its malignant spread across the western world. There is a world wide food shortage and the world economy is in serious trouble. Global climate change (not man made) seems to be a reality. And, the earth’s magnetic poles are in the process of reversing, and no can even guess with any certainty how that will affect the earth in the long run. Like so many others on this thread, the talk around our dinner table has more often centered around the End Times, which until very recently, it never had.
The world was warmer in medieval times than now. Also, there has been no statistically significant "global warming" for the last 15 years. There is no "global climate change". There are natural cycles of weather variability, and that's all we've been experiencing.