UK - One hundred and fifty world leaders and 40,000 delegates are gathering to discuss a new climate-change agreement, watched over by an incredible 120,000 security forces mobilised for the event. But in this time of terror and global crises, doesn't it feel uncomfortable to be talking about how warm it is - or isn't? A bit like going shopping when you should be at a funeral? I watch it all and wonder if there aren't more pressing matters at our door.
Our junior doctors are about to walk out on strike because they don't want their overtime pay cut back. The jungle camp at Calais feels ready to explode into violence, with a 'nouvelle jungle' planned for a quiet village in Kent. And a vote on military intervention in Syria looks likely to split the Labour Party and fail in the Commons, calling into question our role in the world.
The Americans and Canadians have been perfectly clear. This Treaty on Climate Change Emissions is not going to be legally binding. And, in fact, it is not going to be a treaty at all. It is just hot air and paperwork. You'd think hot air is the last thing the climate needs. With America and Canada already greasing themselves to slide out of any deal, India and China are oiling themselves up to do the same.
China still builds at least one coal-fired power station a week and accounts for a third of all global emissions. It is the world's largest emitter of carbon, a position proudly held since 2007. They make big promises. But their population lives blinded by smog. India has been clear it will spend two decades increasing the burning of fossil fuels, boosting emissions to full capacity, in order to drag 300 million people above the poverty line.
As African nations follow on the coat-tails of India, trying to drag themselves out of abject poverty and feed the millions with nothing to eat, are we seriously asking them to care about emissions? My personal view is there are some inconvenient climate truths we don't get to hear much about, thanks to liberal lefties… Of the world's best 50 models on climate change, 95 per cent predicted that Antarctic Sea ice would decrease over the past 30 years. It increased.
Global-warming alarmists even went on a jolly expedition to prove their point in the Antarctic and ended up trapped in ice they’d said wasn't there. Climate-change scientists have been shivering in their short-sleeved shirts to find excuses for why the earth hasn't warmed as predicted. Scientists are floundering. Having worked at the Met Office, I can tell you their salaries depend on climate change being real.
But right now, with terror on our doorstep and ISIS in our midst, should world leaders be chatting about climate change as a top priority?
“Just what is an APOSTLE?”
Today we find the Church of God in a “wilderness of religious confusion!”
The confusion is not merely around the Church – within the religions of the world outside – but WITHIN the very heart of The True Church itself!
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