An Ever-Changing Climate Does Not Pose an Existential Threat

Void of substantive and legitimate or actionable concerns, climate radicals rely on inciting fear by fanning fiction – including the latest news that ever-changing weather is lengthening the time of a day at an “unprecedented” rate.

By how much?

Researchers in Switzerland are suggesting that over the course of the next hundred years, warming weather might add 2.62 milliseconds to a now 24-hour day.

2.62 milliseconds equates to 0.00262 seconds.

Scientists explain that if or when polar ice melts, the Earth’s center of gravity could shift ever so slightly, potentially slowing down the planet’s rotation.

If this all sounds familiar, it might be because you’ve read or heard that the moon, which controls the rise and fall of the oceans, causes something called “tidal fiction.” That reality has added 0.8 milliseconds to a day since 1990.

Taken in totality, from changing temperatures to the rising and falling of the tides, our days get longer by one 74,000^th of a second each year.

It’s unlikely that you’ve noticed.

Cataclysmic warnings about the changing weather would be comical if they weren’t so reckless, irresponsible and expensive.

Consumer Reports indicated earlier this year that a child born in 2024 can expect to pay between $500,000 and $1 million more in their lifetimes to deal with expenses related to the changing weather.

It was reported this past November that extreme weather damage incidents cost the United States $1 billion every three weeks – or just over $17 billion a year. That’s up from $3 billion in damages 40 years ago. What’s never reported is just how much more coastline is built up today than four decades ago – and how much more expensive and complicated everything is to repair.

What’s also less clear is how much climate change policies designed to alter the unalterable are costing the average consumer today. From household products to cars and utilities, everybody is paying more due to companies wanting to appear environmentally responsible.

The sad formula is simple and predictable: climate alarmists stoke fear – and consumers are forced to strike a check to pay and try to stop the unstoppable.

Ironically, those who may think they’re helping by sounding the alarm of changing weather are doing far more harm than good.

Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish author best known for his book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, warns:

The science shows us that fears of a climate apocalypse are unfounded. Global warming is real, but it is not the end of the world. It is a manageable problem. Yet, we now live in a world where almost half the population believes climate change will extinguish humanity. This has profoundly altered the political reality. It makes us double down on poor climate policies. It makes us increasingly ignore all other challenges, from pandemics and food shortages to political strife and conflicts, or subsume them under the banner of climate change… If we don’t say stop, the current, false climate alarm, despite its good intentions, is likely to leave the world much worse off than it could be… We need to dial back on the panic, look at the science, face the economics, and address the issue rationally.

There are many things posing an existential threat to the world, from the attempt to corrupt the exclusivity of male and female to the dearth of new births, but the ever-changing weather isn’t one of them.

Want to ward off an existential crisis?

Accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Get married. Have children. Lots of them. Your only worry about weather should be to stay dry when it rains, cool when it’s hot, and warm when it’s cold. Go ahead and drive your gas-powered truck. Cook guilt-free on your gas stove.

As for those warning and worried about a infinitesimally longer day because of warmer weather, Christians, especially, can relinquish any fear and concern, recognizing “that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” (2 Peter 3:8). However you slice it, that’s a lot of milliseconds.

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