"Unprecedented" warming and "exceptionally low levels" of sea ice are bringing rapid, dramatic and disruptive changes to the Arctic, according to a new report released Tuesday[, December 10, 2019.] by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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The speed and trajectory of many of the changes sweeping the Arctic are "occurring faster than anticipated,” said retired Navy Rear Adm. Timothy Gallaudet, acting NOAA administrator.
HuffPost.com filed a report on 2019 weather, quoted in part without hyperlink [2]:
...extreme temperatures have smashed records around the world this year, with parts of the Midwestern U.S. seeing the mercury drop as low as minus 38 degrees Fahrenheit as Australia endures triple-digit high temperatures, reigniting concerns about a changing planet.
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“In a warming world, you’re still going to have unusually hot and unusually cold events happening in a particular part of the world,” Berkeley Earth climate scientist Zeke Hausfather also told the AP. “Weather is not going away.”
NASA has this to say about global warming, quoted without hyperlink [3]:
Scientists attribute the global warming trend observed since the mid-20th century to the human expansion of the "greenhouse effect" — warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space.
But greenhouse gases are not necessarily bad. Wikipedia has this to say, quoted without references [4]:
Without greenhouse gases, the average temperature of Earth's surface would be about −18 °C (0 °F), rather than the present average of 15 °C (59 °F).
It could be an overabundance of greenhouse gases that is causing temperatures to rise. The evidence shows that glaciers are melting in areas where there should be glaciers year round. Nobody knows when this warming trend will end and what trajectories it will take before weather returns to what is considered normal.
This planet is not static. Earth is continuously moving around in space. Perhaps at times, like the present, it orbits slightly closer toward the sun and warms it, and at other times, it orbits slightly farther away from the sun and cools it. Based on this speculation, the earth can therefore warm up or cool down, independent of greenhouse gases.
Today, many people are concerned because the earth's temperature is on an upward trend.
What if the opposite happens, when the earth's temperature cools continually? Sea levels will begin dropping instead of rising while glaciers at the north and south poles will continue to form and gradually cover land that lies farther and farther away from the poles with thick layers of ice.
"At one point during the Ice Age, sheets of ice covered all of Antarctica, large parts of Europe, North America, and South America, and small areas in Asia. In North America they stretched over Greenland and Canada and parts of the northern United States. The remains of glaciers of the Ice Age can still be seen in parts of the world, including Greenland and Antarctica." [5]
If humanity can have either global warming or global cooling, which will it choose?
Perhaps it would choose neither, preferring instead to return to the Garden of Eden where everything is perfect. Is that even possible?
Anything is possible with God. After all, it is God Who created the universe. When God's will is done on earth as it is in Heaven, earth will once again be the Garden of Eden.
[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/12/10/arctic-report-card-temperatures-rise-sea-ice-melts-exceptionally-low-level/4385182002/
[2] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/extreme-weather-2019_n_5c51ba5ce4b00906b26f9360
[3] https://climate.nasa.gov/causes/
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas
[5] https://www.livescience.com/40311-pleistocene-epoch.html
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