A natural balance has been taking place as long as there has been life on this planet: oxygen and carbon dioxide have been in a natural balance in earth's atmosphere all this time!
More specifically, humans and animals inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. Plant life, on the other hand, uses carbon dioxide in the photosynthesis reaction for plant growth. A by-product of this reaction is gaseous oxygen. So the human and animal kingdoms have been in a balance with the plant kingdom on earth. Each uses a product produced by the other. Humans and animals also use plant products for food, and the plants use human and animal wastes for food.
Current theories suggest that fossil fuels, like coal and natural gas, are the results of decaying, as well as decayed and compacted plant life. There are enormous tonnages of coal reserves on earth -- all of which came from vast quantities of once green vegetation. Somehow, all such vegetation died and was compacted into forms that over the years turned into the various types of peat and coals we mine today.
Now -- think about it. From where did all the carbon in these fossil fuels come? If green vegetation is the actual source of coals, then the vegetation got its carbon from gaseous carbon dioxide. Since the numbers of humans and animals was probably much lower in days past than current populations, one might consider that the earth's atmosphere once contained higher levels of carbon dioxide, which was converted to plants, and ultimately into the coal products we are burning today. For that reason, the carbon dioxide released by the burning of today's fossil fuels is simply a return of that carbon source to the atmosphere from whence it once came. Atmospheric carbon dioxide in days long gone by, converted to large volumes of vegetation, which was compacted, condensed, and buried to form peats and coals, which are mined and burned in power plants today, is returned to atmospheric carbon dioxide once again. From atmospheric carbon dioxide to atmospheric carbon dioxide -- the cycle is complete.
Another aspect of this cycle is that vegetation is used for food for humans and animals. Fruits, vegetables, and grains are the results of the growth of plants. So as the population of humans and animals grows, one would hope that the volume of plant life would remain in proper proportion so plants can convert carbon dioxide to oxygen as they grow abundantly. And the humans and animals, in turn, will continue to grow in numbers so they can convert the vast quantities of oxygen from the plant life into carbon dioxide for use by the plants. This is a natural balance that appears to have been set up by the Creator God. The idea that such a balance, according to evolutionary theory, is the result of chance is baloney!
There are currently more people living on earth than ever before in the history of the earth. Earth's current human population is almost 7 billion people. The population of animal life is proportionally large. To feed this many people and animals, the plant kingdom also needs to be abundant. Fortunately, we know that as the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere doubles and as the average temperature of the earth increases just a little bit, both will increase the growth rates of plants. More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere means faster plant growth and more food for the human and animal kingdoms, which is good. We are currently feeding more people with fewer cultivated acres of land than ever before in the history of the earth. All is proceeding well, and this natural balance of people, animals, carbon dioxide, plants, and oxygen is continuing in relative proportion as designed.
But now enter arrogant mankind, who thinks he knows better than nature and the God of creation. Mankind is planning to cut back on carbon emissions in order to prevent global warming. Global warming appears to be a hoax, which the intelligentsia want to use in order to transfer vast quantities of wealth from rich countries like the United States to poor third-world countries. In this arrogant push to remove carbon dioxide from waste gas streams to prevent global warming (which has not been proven to even exist), they are going to remove carbon dioxide from waste gas streams which will hinder the growth of plants which are in this natural balance with humans and animals.
This author fears that in mankind's arrogance, they will do damage to this natural oxygen/carbon dioxide balance and to the growth and supply of food which feeds the world, in the name of global warming --which is really a cover for other political shenanigans.
Fortunately, this author believes God is in control of the daily functioning of the earth and all that reside thereon. Mankind can play their games, but God will continue to balance out the supplies of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, regardless of what man does to the current levels.
Have you noticed -- the environmentalists have fits when the logging industries clear cut regions of forest. Nothing much is said about the fact that logging companies replant those regions so trees will once again grow. Logging companies cannot continue to function if all forests are cut down and nothing replaces them -- it is in their best interest to replant regions they have harvested --so in years to come, forests will once again occupy those lands.
Many get upset when companies try to clean up the underbrush in our forests. This destroys animal habitats, which is bad (according to animal rights activists). But uncontrolled underbrush encourages wild fires which destroy millions of acres of forests and many residential communities annually. Wild fires destroy trees, which could have been harvested to produce tons of lumber, underbrush, houses, wildlife, etc., and send enormous quantities of carbon dioxide and heat into the atmosphere.
There are lots of natural cycles and balances on this earth that man can control (logging and underbrush cleanup, for example) but when they aren't allowed to participate in those cycles, natural processes like wild fires do the job for them. Hardly anyone gets upset when a whole region is clear-burnt (as opposed to clear-cut) except for the loss of the residential housing that went up in flames along with the natural plant and wild life.
The earth is resilient enough to handle enormous forest fires, heat, and vast quantities of carbon dioxide turned loose into the atmosphere from power plants. The earth is resilient enough to handle volcanic eruptions and the heat, ash, and gases blown into the atmosphere. The earth is resilient enough to handle the destruction and decay caused by enormous tidal waves, tornadoes, and hurricanes across the planet. God can handle it with this earth, and all its natural balances, that have been designed into its self-controlling weather systems. And when things appear to be running out of control, God Himself can step in to right imbalances and fix inequities.
It appears, to this author, that mankind should be paying better attention to the big picture regarding natural balances that are functioning on this planet. It seems like the height of arrogance that the US Supreme Court should declare carbon dioxide a waste gas that should be controlled by the Environmental Protection Agency. It appears to be more arrogance that we are planning to "sequester," that is, remove, carbon dioxide from the waste streams of our plants in order to prevent a phenomenon that has not been proven (global warming.) It appears to be even more arrogance that suggested solutions for a hoax phenomenon will adversely impact natural balances that have been ongoing for years and years (the oxygen/carbon dioxide balance and the human/animal/plant life balances.)
Governments should govern and not stick their noses into areas like this that have been running smoothly on automatic for years and years.
Dennis Dinger is a Christian who is a Professor Emeritus of Ceramic and Materials Engineering at Clemson University. In 2008, he curtailed his ceramics career when he was disabled by a form of blood cancer called Multiple Myeloma. In 2010, the cancer was in complete remission. Over the past three decades, he has directed many applied ceramic engineering research projects; he has been an active researcher and private consultant; and he is author of several ceramic engineering textbooks as well as several Christian books.
This book, Global Climate Change, the Bible, and Science, was written to enter the authors thoughts and reasoning into the global warming debate. In this book, he shows the Bible references which support three important points: (1) God created, (2) God controls the day-to-day workings of the creation, and in particular, (3) God controls the wind and the rain (that is, God controls the weather and climate). Also included are discussions of process control systems, understandings of which are needed by those who want to create climate models, some important natural cycles which have been in balance (without mankind's help) for years and years, and possible pitfalls for computer models. These and other related topics are discussed in this book. For more details, click on Global Warming.
The author's other books include My Bout with Multiple Myeloma, which chronicles his battle with blood plasma cancer, The Coming of the Lord Draweth Nigh, a study of prophecy and the Revelation, The Tribulation to Come, a study of the Revelation of John, and Absolute Truth for a Relative World.
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