This summer, my wife and I had the privilege of stepping into one of nature's frozen wonders: an ice cave deep within Langjökull, Iceland's "Long Glacier." We crunched across the floor in crampons, our breath fogging in the subzero air, marveling at centuries-old formations. It was a humbling reminder of the raw power of creation.
But our guide couldn't resist the obligatory lecture. “The glaciers are shrinking,” he said, “victims of global warming.” We saw allegedly firsthand evidence: retreating edges where black volcanic rock poked through like scars on pale skin. "Climate change," he uttered, shaking his head. "It's real, and it's now."
Of course, we knew the scare tactics weren’t accurate. What many peddling this narrative overlook is that the Langjökull surface ice wasn’t even present when the Vikings first settled Iceland around A.D. 800-1,000. In fact, the surface ice is only about 450 years old. The very land we were standing on was balmy enough for Norse farmers to thrive without a frozen behemoth blocking their way.
Historical records from those seafaring settlers paint a picture of a greener, warmer Iceland, part of the Medieval Warm Period stretching from roughly A.D. 900 to 1300. Grapes grew in England. Vikings grazed cattle in Greenland. No SUVs in sight, yet temperatures soared higher than today's averages in many spots.
Fast-forward to the Little Ice Age from the 1300s to the mid-1800s, and suddenly glaciers like Langjökull ballooned, swallowing farms and forcing populations to flee. Rivers froze solid in London; winters killed crops across Europe – all without a single coal plant belching smoke.
This isn't some dusty footnote, but rather the beating heart of the climate hoax. The Earth has always been in flux, marching through natural cycles of warming and cooling driven by solar activity, volcanic eruptions, orbital wobbles, and ocean currents. We've got proxy data from ice cores, tree rings, and sediments screaming this truth: temperatures swung wildly long before the Industrial Revolution. Roman times? Warmer than now. The Dark Ages? A deep chill. Yet here we are being sold the fairy tale that mankind, in all its hubris, holds the thermostat in our hands. It's not just misleading; it's human pride on steroids, a colossal arrogance placing us above the Creator's design.
In our rush to play God, we're ignoring the fact that human influence, while real in localized ways, pales in comparison to the planet's rhythms. CO2 levels? They've been higher – much higher in the distant past, with lush forests blanketing a dinosaur-filled Earth. Sure, we're pumping out emissions, but the models peddled by alarmists have been repeatedly wrong: remember the predictions of no Arctic ice by 2013? Or submerged Manhattan by now? Those flops aren't accidents; they're the scaffolding of a narrative built to scare us into submission.
And submission is the point. This hoax isn't about saving polar bears, it's about control. Wrap it in green virtue-signaling, and suddenly you've got a blank check to strip away freedoms, reassign trillions in wealth, and remake society in the image of unelected bureaucrats. Carbon taxes? That's just a fancy way to pick your pocket and funnel it to global elites. Net-zero mandates? Code for shuttering industries, hiking energy costs, and leaving families in the dark, literally. Look at Europe: windmills spinning idly while citizens freeze, all in the name of a "crisis" that's more manufactured than a Hollywood blockbuster. It's redistribution dressed as salvation, a Trojan horse for socialism that punishes the productive to empower the powerful.
President Trump hit the mark in his recent speech to the United Nations. He sternly told those globalists:
[C]limate change … it’s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion. …
The primary effect of these brutal green energy policies has not been to help the environment, but to redistribute manufacturing and industrial activity from developed countries that follow the insane rules that are put down to polluting countries that break the rules and are making a fortune.
Trump laid it bare: The Paris Climate Accord was a bad deal from day one, siphoning American jobs and dollars while China and India built coal plants unchecked. Calling out the hypocrisy of the private jets and the offshore wind farms that slaughter whales while doing nothing for emissions, Trump delivered a classic unfiltered, unapologetic wake-up slap to the room full of elitists. And the applause? Muted from the usual suspects, but you could feel the shift.
Politics fade, but truth endures. It is very clear in Job 38:8 who controls our planet: "Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb?" God alone commands the winds, the waves, the very breath of creation. "He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved" (Psalm 104:5). The earth isn't ours to micromanage; it's His handiwork, sustained by His providence. Genesis 1:1 seals it: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." We didn't build this planet; God did, and he gave us dominion over it for His honor and glory.
That honor means stewardship. We all want pristine rivers, breathable air, thriving wildlife. As conservatives, we've always led on real conservation – think Teddy Roosevelt carving out national parks or Ronald Reagan's clean air initiatives that slashed pollution without bankrupting families. Poison our water with actual toxins? Absolutely criminal. But the climate industrial complex? That's not stewardship; it's a grift. Trillions down the toilet, part of the "green" scam. Solar panels from slave labor in China, electric vehicles subsidized by your tax dollars, while the grid strains under the load. It's not about the environment; it's a political agenda to centralize power, silence dissent, and remake the West in a weaker image.
We need to wake up, folks. The next time you hear the doomsayers, ratcheting up their claims about climate catastrophe, ask yourself who's really benefiting? Follow the money. We need more leaders like Trump who call a bluff on the fear factory.
Above all, reclaim your God-given responsibility: live responsibly, innovate freely, and trust the Creator over the climatistas. From the icy depths of Langjökull to the halls of the UN, the message is clear: the climate isn't breaking, our illusions are. Let's shatter them before they chain us all.
Gerrick Wilkins is an automotive consultant, former congressional candidate, and author of Unshackling Democracy: Embracing Term Limits, Empowering Citizens. He can be reached at [email protected] or followed on X @gdwilkins.
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