Folks, this “cooling-warming” switcheroo isn’t science we are dealing with, but the ancient religion of Gaia worship making a resurgence. It’s a sad, frightening religion with its own creeds and its own moral tenets, and its very own devil is standing behind anyone who would dare question its “truth.” Even in this day and age, Meteorologists can barely predict tomorrow’s weather, much less a decade or a century in the future, yet their prognostications are taken as gospel truth. That is why Ellen Goodman can claim that to doubt their doom and gloom predictions of the future is equivalent to being a Holocaust denier.

A few weeks ago, we were talking with someone about some of the fads that are now sweeping through the church at large. We then began thinking about the many cultural fads that have come and gone over the decades, along with the “fad-famous” people and ideas that came along with them. Famous from one of our favorite decades, the 1970s, were Elton John, David Bowie, Farrah Fawcett, and Ali MacGraw, just to name a few of the popular cultural icons on the scene at that time. There was the wildly popular film “Love Story,” whose lead character, “Jennifer,” inspired countless parents to name their daughters Jennifer, making it the most popular name for girls in the decade. We have a Jennifer ourselves, born in that decade. And then there was the famous line from that film, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry?” Oh wow, that sounded so wonderful. So freeing… Nobody has to be sorry anymore, provided they love the person they have deeply wounded, or whose heart they may have shattered. A catchy phrase, to be sure, but completely ridiculous, as everyone surely knows by now.

The Godfather 1 & 2, Star Wars, and Saturday Night Fever were also released in the 70s to great applause. Disco music and disco dance became the rage. Mood rings were in, as were “leisure suits.” (Don’t ask). Afros seemed the most popular hairstyle for a time, even among Caucasian men, who got themselves tightly permed right and left, even if they may have felt a bit silly sitting around with little pink curlers in their hair. And among intellectuals, it became common knowledge that the next ice age was fast approaching and was surely going to destroy civilization! Possibly the only people who doubted the global cooling “scarytale” were uneducated dolts. According to the prophets of the intellectual elite, anyone with half a scientific brain knew that the cooler summers and colder winters of that decade proved that man-made emissions were causing this earth-destroying catastrophe.

The first Earth Day took place on April 22, 1970, and attracted approximately 20 million Americans. In preparation for the event, the Environmental Handbook had been produced and distributed to thousands of students across the U.S. and Canada, which contained a call to reject Christianity and “find a new religion.” Gaia worship soon became the religion of the American left as they worked to protect Mother Earth from evil humans. It had become so ingrained in Western culture’s thinking that to doubt it is deemed heretical, and as we all know, heretics must be punished! In his 1970 book, Without Marx or Jesus: The New American Revolution Has Begun, French social historian Jean-Francois Revel wrote, “Earth Day’ in America was one huge pantheistic feast.”1

In order to at least give the impression of being well-informed, the government kicked in with legislation to clean up fuel emissions. Manufacturers worked hard to eliminate or at least curtail the use of aerosol sprays to prevent, or at least forestall, the impending global disaster. But something happened on the way to that particular global disaster, and the new Ice Age had a meltdown and never arrived! So naturally, all those priests and priestesses who got everyone all excited over nothing apologized profusely and went home with their tails between their legs. Nah. As is so often the case, false prophets simply get New Light. Rather than acknowledging that they were wrong and the Neanderthal conservative dolts had been correct, the prophets of this doom and gloom ecological religion simply changed the furniture around a bit. Yes, there was still a great calamitous human-caused global destruction coming, but now, instead of the bogeyman being global cooling, it was transformed into global warming, which had their undies in a twist.

In 2005, an online article,  “Global warming or global cooling?” picked up on the unpardonable sin of the 1970s:

A recent Washington Post article gave this scientist’s quote from 1972. “We simply cannot afford to gamble. We cannot risk inaction. The scientists who disagree are acting irresponsibly. The indications that our climate can soon change for the worse are too strong to be reasonably ignored.” The warning was not about global warming (which was not yet believed to be happening): it was about global cooling!

The October 23, 2006, “Newsweek Technology & Science” ran the web article “Remember Global Cooling?” which began with:

In April 1975, in an issue mostly taken up with stories about the collapse of the American-backed government of South Vietnam, NEWSWEEK published a small back-page article about a very different kind of disaster. Citing “ominous signs that the earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically,” the magazine warned of an impending “drastic decline in food production.” Political disruptions stemming from food shortages could affect “just about every nation on earth.” Scientists urged governments to consider emergency action to head off the terrible threat of . . . well, if you had been following the climate-change debates at the time, you’d have known that the threat was: global cooling.

It is enough to give you whiplash trying to keep in step with “eco-heresy hunters,” as Suzanne Fields has dubbed them. And, in the early days of the new millennium, it was manmade global warming that had become the bogeyman du jour! If these eco-soothsayers had retreated to a cave and entertained each other with their fearful fantasies, we might be OK with that, but no, we must all assent to their dire, ever-changing madness. And sadly, in order to avoid committing the “unpardonable sin” of doubting the new prophets of doom and bringing ridicule down on their heads, some Evangelical leaders eventually caved to the pressure and jumped on the bandwagon. The February 2006 article “Evangelical Leaders Join Global Warming Initiative” declared:

Despite opposition from some of their colleagues, 86 evangelical Christian leaders have decided to back a major initiative to fight global warming, saying “millions of people could die in this century because of climate change, most of them our poorest global neighbors.”

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