Notes of Faith August 31, 2026
New Climate Change Dashboard Shows . . . No Climate Change?
by Ken Ham on August 24, 2026
“The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.”
That was a claim reportedly made back in 2019 by Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC). Of course, doing the math, that means we all have a mere five years left (unless you take a different climate prediction that put the end of the world due to climate change smack-dab in 2026!).
The clip of AOC’s “climate prophecy” has resurfaced because she recently posted a video showing her injecting herself with hormones so she can freeze her eggs to maybe have a child someday. And so people are asking, “If the world is ending in five years—in just 2031—why are you planning to possibly have a baby?” And, of course, the answer is because none of the dire climate predictions of the past have come true and there’s no sign that hers will be an exception to the rule! In fact, I predict it will not come true—unless Jesus returns!
And the data confirms that. Recently, a man who goes by the name “The Honest Broker” created a US Extreme Weather and Climate Change Dashboard that “follows the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) framework for detecting a change in climate in the context of internal variability. This dashboard tracks 38 variables associated with 8 types of extremes: heat waves, cold extremes, tornadoes, flooding, drought, winter storms, wildfire, and hurricanes.”
And what was the result? In terms of long-term change, there was no detected change in five of the eight categories. Of the remaining three categories, one (cold extremes) is decreasing, and only two are currently increasing (heat waves and wildfires). That’s a very different story than you will hear from the mainstream media! Anytime there’s a weather event—a hurricane, tornado, flood, heat wave, etc.—it’s always blamed on man-made climate change. But the data doesn’t support that hype!
Yes, the climate is changing. It’s changed in the past, and it will continue to change in the future. There’s been climate change ever since Noah’s Flood. But the idea that it’s man-made and catastrophic, leading to an apocalyptic scenario in just a few years if we don’t do something dramatic, isn’t supported by the data. And that’s why these end-of-the-world doomsday claims never come to fruition. They’re poor interpretations of the data based on a certain environmentalist worldview.
We believe that God created the climate. He made it intelligently and designed it for life to flourish. Yes, it varies over time (the global Flood of Noah’s day was the most dramatic climate change of all time, resulting in the Ice Age), but it’s relatively stable and self-correcting. And that’s what we actually observe!
The world isn’t going to end in five years due to climate change, no matter what politicians say. The world will end when Jesus returns to judge sin and make a new heaven and a new earth. In the meantime, we’re to be good stewards of creation, caring for it with wisdom and using what God has provided for our good and His glory.
And remember God’s promise to Noah (and therefore all of humanity):
While all the days of the earth remain,
Seedtime and harvest,
And cold and heat,
And summer and winter,
And day and night
Shall not cease. (Genesis 8:22)
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I believe that the Scriptures teach that the earth was formed and filled by God’s creative power approximately 6,000 years ago. When the literal six days were finished, God said that “It was good”. That would mean perfect in our mind. No sin, no evil...at least in this realm. Until Satan came and deceived Eve, and Adam chose sin over obedience to God and we all know what came next… The fall of mankind fulfilled Scripture, “In the day that you eat of it, you shall surely die.” Mankind was not created to die but to live forever in intimate relationship with God who created them!
The fall of man brought about the fall of the rest of creation on earth. Everything decays, grows old, and dies!
Weather changes are a result of the fall. There was an ice age. There could be another one. Man may affect the weather slightly, but God is in control of what will take place, when and where! In the end times, “the time of Jacob’s Trouble”, the “Great Tribulation”, the time of God’s judgment on an unbelieving world, that the sun will scorch man. You think it’s bad now?
2 Peter 3:10-13
the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.
11 Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat! 13 But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
God is in control…not anything that man can do to alter the plan of God for His creation. Fear not! Do not listen to the fear mongers. Life will go on until God says it will no longer. Then the new heaven and new earth will be brought forth for all those that believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. The blessing of God is beyond our imagination for what He has in store for those who love and obey Him!
Look up, for your redemption draws near!
Pastor Dale