I disagree! What does “renewable” mean; is a windmill capable of recreating itself or is it the energy contained in the wind that is renewed?
The fuel source is not extinguished in the near future. The wind is 'renewable' in that as long as the sun shines, the wind blows.
But I also classify nuclear as 'renewable' - because we can extract uranium from seawater and the oceans are constantly topped up with uranium particles from continental drift + erosion FASTER than we could use it! (Especially if we're getting 90 times the energy out of each bit of uranium by using breeder reactors that burn nuclear 'waste'.) From this perspective, uranium could last a billion years!
I do not expect that fossil fuel will last indefinitely;
Good. It won't.
but how long they will last is any body's guess;
I'm not going to bet what day, month, or year they run out. But depending on consumption trends etc, we can map roughly what decade they run out. And that's not even the issue! About half way through the life of fossil fuels we've used up the cheap, easily extractable resource and move from ever increasing supplies of cheap resource (oil, gas, or coal) to ever decreasing and slowing extraction of expensive resource that can NEVER AGAIN MEET DEMAND. More on this here.
Peak oil - Wikipedia
So now you have to - very roughly - halve the
global proven reserves to guess the peak of all these resources. Because that's when the world starts to get into real economic trouble if it is not ready!
Some have predicted
coal peaks around now. Remember - that will not solve climate change - even if true and predicting the peak is really hard - because half way through the best cheap coal still means we've got half the coal there ever was to burn. That's too much - enough to cook the planet 5 times over! I really hope coal DOES peak soon as it might generate the incentive to get off the foul, deadly stuff! But you can see that if even coal is about to peak, not all is well in fossil fuel land.
climate change is a monumental hoax, or deception, hiding a real problem.
Climate change is real. Read about the history of it. Glance at my signature!
The timing of the Lord's return is predetermined, even though the timing is not known to Jesus, only to the Father; the time will be shortened such that some of God's people will be left alive when He returns.
But this remains true even if the human race crashes back to a few tens of thousands in a climate catastrophe! As well as being keen on solving climate change here, I'm also a fan of CAUSING climate change on Mars. Extreme climate change! As in, terraforming that planet. See, we know how to cook a planet! The same physics working against us here could work for us on Mars. But that's a centuries long project over there - and raises interesting questions like how we're going to fund missionaries to Mars! (Or will people 'catch' the gospel over there by the solar system's internet one day?)
How will God's people be threatened; the first death will not rob anyone of their salvation, so what could cause person to loose their salvation; the great deception, where people inadvertently change sides and serve the wrong master.
Like climate deniers who don't know that their opinion has been paid for by Exxon Mobile and the Koch brothers?
Two things are ahead of us, one, tyranny and two, the great and terrible day of the Lord, culminating with the return of Christ. Tyranny is to do with world government,
I'm actually a fan of global democratic governance systems. Imagine being able to vote for a global parliament?
See, Revelation is about the Roman Empire persecuting God's people - and then giving us general principles about how to deal with suffering when and if governments turn on us. There's also stuff in their about how to cope with wealth and abundance as well! My point? It's a sermon about the future, NOT a timetable or even undated future sequence of events. It's a symbolic sermon. That's it! In other words, the Lord could return in 5 seconds or 500 centuries - we just don't know! And my bet is that because God is loving and wants a big kingdom, he might just be patient enough to wait a longer time than most here would believe.
and the Christian leaders that you refer to; if they are for world government they are against God;
I am for global democratic mechanisms, and I am for God.
Now what?
they could not be so naive so as not to know that climate change is a sinister hoax.
Climate denial is a sinister hoax, and Exxon is being sued for the sheer amount of money they have pumped into deceiving the public. Now where does that leave us?
Of course the atmosphere traps heat, without which our planet would be an ice block.
Which we've known for 200 years - since Joseph Fourier discovered it in the 1820's. Then Eunice foot discovered CO2 - see my signature.
If religious Leaders want to create fear they should be warning of the public of the impending climax to the Day of the Lord, the return of Christ, the Law stretched tight and the second death.
Sure - which could happen in 5 seconds.
Or 50,000 years! We just don't know.
In the meantime, do you look both ways before crossing the road?
Have you studied hard to have a career?
Have you got plans for your holidays this year? next year?
Have you got insurance? Brush your teeth so they last decades? Go to the gym so your health lasts longer? Avoid eating lead or arsenic in any quantities? Climate change is like that. It's risk management. Not everyone is going to die from climate change - it's risk management. It's science. There are Christian climatologists. Indeed, Sir John Houghton was the first head of the IPCC and was a Christian. (Went to the Lord a few years ago.)
