Global cooling was the environmental alarm of about thirty years ago, when a coming Ice Age was predicted within a century, with wooly mammoths returning, billions starving as arable land shrank, and drastic government intervention required. That scare collapsed under overwhelming contrary scientific evidence, which showed mean temperatures trending slightly upward. Environmentalists then reversed course and promoted global warming to reach the same ends. This shows that the movement has never been about truth or facts, but about political results such as restricting free enterprise, expanding government regulation and funding, and advancing liberal social policies. An end-justifies-the-means mentality has left the science behind the warming claim as junk. Some data still point to cooling: Antarctica has cooled as much as 0.7°C per decade between 1986 and 2000, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appears to be thickening, and Arctic ice may have shifted rather than thinned. Earth temperatures also remain a few tenths of a degree below the 3,000-year Sargasso Sea average, as the planet recovers from the Little Ice Age of about 300 years ago. Such conflicting reports call for an appreciation of climate science's complexity. Biblically, God uses weather and climate to bless or curse, and the minor temperature fluctuations are petty compared with what is coming. Concern for the environment should rest on truth, pure motives, and respect for God's creation, not political aims.

Thirty years ago, the environmental concern was global cooling, with predictions of a new ice age looming within the next century. It was feared that wooly mammoths would return, billions would starve due to shrinking arable lands, and shorelines would recede, destroying pristine estuaries and wetlands. Drastic government intervention was deemed necessary to avert this threat to all life on the planet. However, this alarmist movement dissolved under overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary, leading environmentalists to shift their focus to global warming as the new narrative to achieve their political ends.

Despite the claims of global warming proponents, recent data indicate that the earth has not experienced overall warming since 2001. Lord Christopher Monckton reported that temperatures have been plummeting at a rate equivalent to 11 Fahrenheit degrees per century over the past few years, suggesting the earth is cooling faster than it was warming. John L. Casey, Director of the Space and Science Research Center, has stated that global warming is over and a new cold climate has arrived, driven by a significant decrease in solar activity. Casey notes that the solar wind is at its lowest level in fifty years, surface movement on the sun has slowed to record rates, and the prolonged lack of sunspots between solar cycles is about to set a one-hundred-year record. NASA forecasts that the upcoming solar cycle will be one of the weakest in centuries, pointing to a solar hibernation that could bring the coldest weather in over two centuries for several decades. However, these scientific observations are largely ignored by those pushing the global warming agenda, who have shifted their focus to climate change to maintain their push for legislation like cap and trade, despite nature's cooling trend.