Did you know that you only have a few months—at most—left to live? Yes, that’s right, because a climate scientist from the University of Arizona predicted back in 2016 that the climate situation was so dire that in a mere decade he couldn’t imagine there being a single human being left on planet earth. Well, this year makes 10 years since he made that prediction . . . so are we all about to die from extreme temperatures not seen in “two billion years”?
Dr. Guy McPherson has published 55 peer-reviewed articles and is a professor emeritus. His “near-term human extinction” theory—that humans will be extinct very soon—is considered “fringe” by most scientists, but that certainly hasn’t stopped him from touring, speaking, publishing, teaching, and interviewing as a climate expert! Take, for example, this interview from 2016 in New Zealand when he made this prediction: “In terms of the human race, we’re done, it’s locked in . . . We’re in the midst of the sixth mass extinction. . . . I can’t imagine there will be a human on the planet in 10 years.”
Of course, it’s been 10 years, and human beings are still thriving and nowhere near extinction. His prediction was utterly false. Things have not rapidly declined to the point where humans are desperately clinging to life with only the hope of microbes and fungi left to repopulate a desolate planet. Since he has the wrong starting point—evolution, millions of years, and atheism—he reaches utterly wrong conclusions.
In 2018, climate-change activist Greta Thunberg tweeted an article that quoted another climate activist/professor saying that climate change could “wipe out humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.” Again, a dire prediction that hasn’t taken place.
Al Gore’s environmental activism is another example—a lot of the prophecies he made about climate change in his 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, have not come true.
Climate models are only as good as the data put into them and the interpretations driving the conclusions. Dr. McPherson and climate alarmists like him don’t have all the information (climate science is extremely complex, after all) and have a wrong interpretation of the past when it comes to climate, so they make wrong predictions that fail again and again.
Our climate did not evolve. It was created by God, intelligently designed with wisdom and foresight. And humans will not go extinct by soaring global temperatures. God has already decreed how it will all end when he returns in judgment and creates a new heavens and a new earth.
For Christians, the future is not bleak and hopeless—we will spend eternity in perfection with our Creator. But for those who reject God, the future is hopeless. Not because of a man-made climate crisis, but because God will judge sin and those who have rejected Christ will forever be apart from him. That’s the reality! (Praise the Lord we have hope in Christ!)
Climate alarmists will continue to predict the end of the world or the end of humanity, but they will continue to be wrong.
Instead of getting worked up about the supposed hopelessness of the future, Christians are to continue following the mandate God gave us: to have wise and godly dominion over this creation (this means taking care of it for God’s glory and our good), doing the King’s business until he comes, contending for the faith, being salt and light, and making disciples—all with the hope of a brand-new creation when Jesus returns someday.
What a difference a biblical worldview makes!
