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00:36 Hello friend, welcome today to the program
00:39 which is on Climate Change.
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00:48 Dr Hugh Ross,
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00:58 and he believes that the findings of science
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02:14 Welcome today to The Carter Report.
02:16 We have a special guest,
02:18 Dr Hugh Ross from Reasons to Believe.
02:21 And today we're talking about
02:23 what some people would call
02:25 is a controversial subject, Climate Change.
02:29 Stay with us, you're going to enjoy this program.
02:33 Dr. Ross, we are absolutely delighted
02:35 to have you with us here today.
02:37 Well, thank you.
02:38 We've had you with us on our program before
02:41 and we're thrilled that you're here today
02:45 because you have so much information.
02:51 You are an astronomer and an astrophysicist.
02:56 You've just written a book on climate change.
02:58 I've read it through.
03:01 Absolutely stirred up the molecules in my mind.
03:05 Some young people are terrified that
03:07 they're not going to get to old age,
03:09 that the world might come to an end
03:12 because of climate change within 10 years.
03:17 How would you comment?
03:18 I don't know of any climatologist
03:20 that says that, you know,
03:22 Armageddon's happening in 10 years.
03:24 Some are saying by 2050. Mm-Hmm.
03:26 So you know 30 years. Yes.
03:29 That's I would call a worst case scenario.
03:31 What I've written in my book,
03:32 there are things we can do to continue
03:36 the amazing stability of our climate
03:38 that we've enjoyed for the past 9,500 years,
03:42 for more than a millennium.
03:44 Probably not two millennium but at least another millennium
03:47 and we can do it without killing our economy.
03:50 In fact we can do it while we enhance our economy.
03:53 And mainly I'm writing the book to take the controversy
03:56 and the politics out of this climate change issue.
04:00 It's true, is it not
04:03 that climate change has become politicized?
04:07 Oh, very much politicized.
04:09 And so it's hard to have a rational debate
04:11 in some circles about climate change.
04:15 Well, the reason it's gotten politicized,
04:17 you got one side saying,
04:19 we have to do something to restore the climate
04:22 to what we've enjoyed for the past 9,500 years.
04:26 But we need to do it by
04:28 making draconian economic adjustments.
04:31 And then you got the other side saying
04:33 that will never work.
04:35 Trying to persuade people to lower their standard
04:37 of living by a factor of 2, 3, or 4.
04:40 That's a hard sell,
04:41 and so they're basically saying,
04:43 maybe the climate change is not as bigger problem
04:46 as they think
04:47 and what we're basically proposing
04:49 it reasons to believe.
04:51 There are ways to stabilize the climate
04:53 that boosts the economy.
04:55 We don't have to have draconian economic sacrifices.
04:59 I'd like to say a few words to my audience today, Dr. Ross.
05:04 Good men and good women can disagree
05:09 without becoming disagreeable.
05:11 Definitely. Isn't this true?
05:13 That's a Christian virtue.
05:14 Yeah, yeah, yes, so whatever happened
05:16 we say to some people,
05:18 whatever happened to their Christian faith?
05:20 If we can't discuss controversial issues
05:24 and love each other,
05:26 there's something very wrong
05:27 with our so called Christianity.
05:29 Well, people need to realize non-Christians watch
05:32 how we treat one another.
05:34 Especially how we treat one another on issues
05:37 where we sharply disagree.
05:39 If they see that
05:40 we can disagree in a charitable,
05:42 encouraging way.
05:43 Then they're going to be
05:45 willing to trust us to deal with their issues.
05:47 So I think we all need to be aware,
05:48 we are being watched.
05:52 Today, in North America,
05:54 I think you'd agree with me on this,
05:56 the whole country seems to be polarized.
05:58 Yes.
06:00 And there's so much hate speech
06:02 and if a person disagrees with you,
06:05 he just doesn't disagree with you,
06:07 he's gotta be your enemy.
06:09 Well, it's not just America,
06:10 I see that as a worldwide phenomenon.
06:12 This is true.
06:13 And climate change seems to be
06:15 the issue in which you get the greatest,
06:17 you know, vilification.
06:18 Greatest polarization. Exactly.
06:20 And so if a person thinks this,
06:22 he's one of the baddies and if he thinks this,
06:25 he's one of the baddies.
06:27 We can't, many people find it
06:29 very, very hard to listen to the other person
06:33 and to think rationally.
06:35 Well, I've written this book Weather and Climate Change
06:37 basically to make the point...
06:39 It's a great book. Thank you.
06:41 ..That none of this is necessary,
06:43 we can take the controversy out,
06:45 we can take the politics out,
06:47 simply by looking at the creative solutions
06:50 whereby we can manage the planet for our benefit,
06:53 the benefit of all life, same time boost our economy,
06:57 who's not gonna like it? It's win-win-win.
07:00 Now, what is the consensus?
07:03 Now, you're a world famous scientist,
07:06 what is the consensus of the scientific community
07:10 concerning climate change and global warming?
07:13 Is there a consensus?
07:14 There is a growing consensus.
07:16 It's relatively recent.
07:18 I mean, I waited to write this book
07:19 until the research reached that point,
07:22 but the consensus now is that from
07:25 9,500 years up until the year 1900,
07:29 the global mean temperature was extremely stable,
07:33 varying by no more than plus or minus
07:35 0.65 degrees centigrade.
07:38 And it gradually declined over that period
07:41 by one degree centigrade.
07:43 Where there is also a consensus,
07:45 in the last 70 years,
07:47 it's gone up by one degree centigrade.
07:49 So now the planet is just as warm as it was
07:53 9,000 years ago.
07:55 And now, this is what the scientific world is saying.
07:58 It is.
08:00 And there is no dispute over this because,
08:01 you know, we've got excellent measurements
08:04 of the temperatures.
08:05 There's no dispute over this.
08:07 That's the one part that's not disputed is that
08:09 we've had this long,
08:11 stable period where the temperature declined
08:14 by only one degree
08:15 and over the last 70 years, that's gone up.
08:19 And that's what causing the alarm,
08:20 is the fact that in just 70 years,
08:23 we've reversed 9,500 years
08:26 of temperature decline.
08:31 Let me ask you this question.
08:35 This is a rather difficult question.
08:39 I've been told that scientists on occasions
08:42 have falsified the evidence
08:44 to make a case for global warming.
08:47 I've read this, you know, I get this literature
08:50 and it's rather derogatory
08:53 of the scientific community,
08:57 but it says that there's clear evidence that
08:59 there are scientists who have made up the facts
09:04 or I'll say have perverted certain ideas.
09:09 They've had an...
09:10 In other words, they've had an axe to grind.
09:13 Well, I think they have a point
09:16 that these scientists do have an axe to grind
09:18 but there is zero evidence that
09:20 they ever tampered with or manipulated the data.
09:23 This controversy all came out from Britain,
09:26 where some climatologists were commenting on the data
09:30 and what we should do about the data that we see.
09:33 But there's been eight independent studies about
09:36 whether there was any manipulation of the data
09:39 and all eight studies have said no,
09:41 there's been no manipulation of the data.
09:44 But, yeah, scientists were saying
09:46 things they probably shouldn't have said
09:47 to one another that became public.
09:50 But you know scientists are humans.
09:51 Yeah, of course, they are, they're humans
09:53 the same as we are with, with prejudice, and pride,
09:56 and everything else
09:58 because we are sinful human beings.
10:01 Now I have been interviewing you
10:03 for a number of years
10:05 and you've been a tremendous blessing to me
10:08 and to our ministry.
10:10 You are a committed Christian. Yes.
10:13 And you believe in the Holy Scriptures.
10:14 Yes.
10:16 And you believe, now this is really
10:19 the core of your organization.
10:21 You believe that the findings of science,
10:27 true science uphold the teachings of the Bible.
10:30 Correct.
10:32 Because of what you call this, this fine tuning thing.
10:36 Well, that's the main thing
10:38 I'm trying to get across in this book,
10:40 Weather and Climate Change,
10:42 is that climate instability is the norm.
10:46 What we've had for the past 9,500 years
10:49 is the exception.
10:51 In fact we've never had an ice age cycle,
10:54 where we've had extreme climate stability
10:57 and mainly what I write about in the book
10:58 is all the amazing fine tuning
11:01 that must take place
11:03 over the long history of the earth,
11:05 to open up this tiny window just 9,500 years wide
11:09 where we got this extreme climate stability.
11:12 Let me ask you this.
11:14 As an astronomer,
11:16 you worked also at Caltech, didn't you?
11:18 Yes.
11:19 Yeah, quite an amazing experience.
11:21 Some say it's the,
11:22 easily one of the greatest universities in the world.
11:25 Well, for astrophysics it ranks number one.
11:27 Number one? Yeah. Yeah.
11:29 I read in USA News & World Report that is,
11:33 in one year at least, it was number one university
11:35 in the United States.
11:37 Well, it's the only university
11:38 where they got more professors than students.
11:43 You're kidding. I'm not kidding.
11:44 They've got more professors than students at Caltech?
11:47 Well, if you include all the research fellows
11:49 that are there,
11:51 that also help with the teaching,
11:52 Yes, it's got more professors than students,
11:55 2,000 faculty, 1,400 students.
11:57 Yeah, and now,
11:58 I'm getting a little off the subject,
12:00 but you've got a son who's going to Loma Linda.
12:02 Yes. What's he doing there?
12:04 Well, he's getting a doctoral degree
12:06 in Clinical Neuropsychology.
12:09 And how's he finding Loma Linda?
12:10 Oh, he loves Loma Linda.
12:12 Loves attending the lectures there,
12:14 loves the fact that he can integrate both
12:16 his research in neuroscience and the clinical work.
12:19 He says, you know,
12:20 I want this to apply to real people, so.
12:24 Now, scientists say that the earth has had a,
12:29 this period and people would debate it I'm sure,
12:33 at least among some conservative Christians
12:37 about the age of this period of stability.
12:40 But there have been periods of hot and cold.
12:46 Well, what I wrote about in a previous book,
12:48 this one, 'Improbable Planet'.
12:50 The only way you can have
12:52 billions of human beings on planet earth
12:54 is if we live in an ice age cycle.
12:57 Where we go from say 20-23% ice coverage
13:02 and then transition to a period of only 10%
13:05 and we've had over 40 of those cycles
13:08 in the past recent history of the earth.
13:11 And you need that in order to have enough water
13:14 to irrigate the great agricultural plains.
13:17 We're living off the benefit of ice leftover
13:20 from the last ice age,
13:22 melting and watering our great agricultural plains.
13:25 How do scientists like you know
13:28 that we've had periods of hot and cold for,
13:31 you know, so many years?
13:33 How do they know this, what proof?
13:35 Well, probably the best evidence is ice cores
13:38 in Central Greenland,
13:41 Central Antarctica and in the Alps.
13:43 Tell me about these ice cores?
13:45 Well, it's kinda like tree rings.
13:47 I mean every year you get a layer of ice,
13:49 and in that layer you'll have different isotopes.
13:54 Probably the ones that are most significant
13:56 are the isotopes of oxygen.
13:58 Tell me about isotopes? What are isotopes?
14:00 Well, they're different atomic weights of an element
14:04 like oxygen has got three significant isotopes,
14:08 oxygen 16, 17, and 18.
14:12 And the ratio of oxygen 18 to 16 in the atmosphere
14:16 is strongly correlated with temperature.
14:19 And so by measuring the oxygen 18 to 16 ratio
14:24 in these different layers of ice
14:26 that we see gives us an accurate record
14:29 of the past temperature of the earth.
14:30 So they get these samples of ice.
14:34 They drill down and they get...
14:35 They just drill down through all the layers,
14:38 and they got proof that the layers are annual layers
14:41 because these layers will have the dust signatures
14:45 of known volcanic eruptions in recorded history.
14:48 So they can count the number of layers
14:50 and indeed they are annual layers.
14:52 So this, this is the discovery of truth.
14:57 Now Christians like you and like me,
15:02 we should believe very much in truth
15:05 because Jesus said, "You'll know the truth,
15:08 and the truth will make you free."
15:09 We should... Right.
15:11 I wanna say to the audience watching today,
15:12 we don't need to be afraid of the truth
15:15 because truth is liberating and if we follow Jesus Christ
15:20 we'll be adherence of the truth.
15:22 And so they put down these, how do they get the ice out?
15:27 Well, they just drill through,
15:29 you know, literally hundreds of thousands of layers of ice.
15:32 Goodness.
15:34 And then they pull the core out
15:35 and then they take the core to a laboratory
15:37 and they analyze each year represented.
15:41 So it appears from these layers,
15:45 it appears that there has been a hot age
15:49 and then a glacial age?
15:50 Right.
15:52 And so we have been living in a period of stability
15:57 that has been the best
15:59 for the development of civilization?
16:02 Well, in the entire ice age cycle
16:04 there is only one interglacial
16:06 where you got climate stability.
16:08 And that's the one we're in right now.
16:11 And when you speak about fine tuning,
16:12 you're an expert
16:14 on the fine tuning of the universe.
16:16 When I heard this, it just about blew me away
16:18 because how can a person see this fine tuning
16:23 and not believe in a fine tuner.
16:25 Right.
16:27 Tell me about,
16:28 we're getting a little bit off this subject
16:29 but we're not, tell me a little bit about
16:31 the fine tuning that is found out in the cosmos,
16:34 in the universe?
16:35 Well, that's where it was first noticed by my peers,
16:38 going back even 50, 60 years.
16:41 Then we look at the universe, number one we see,
16:43 the universe must be exactly the size
16:46 and the mass that it is to get even one planet
16:49 on which life is possible.
16:50 The whole universe exists to make earth possible.
16:53 This is almost overwhelming.
16:57 It's almost too hard to believe but it is, it's true, isn't it?
17:00 It is.
17:02 And then tell me about the fine tuning,
17:03 I've read most of your books and they're great books.
17:09 Tell me about the fine tuning of gravity
17:13 and dark matter and dark energy and all this stuff?
17:16 Well, what we're writing about in our most recent books
17:19 is the fact that the fine tuning is ubiquitous.
17:22 Literally every event in the history
17:24 of the universe, earth, and earth's life
17:26 and every component of the universe,
17:28 earth and earth's life makes possible
17:31 the existence of billions of human beings
17:34 in a narrow time window here on planet earth.
17:37 As you see in the Bible,
17:39 God begins His work
17:40 of redemption before He creates anything.
17:44 And what we're discovering
17:45 in our scientific team at Reasons to Believe.
17:48 Everything we see in nature
17:49 serves a purpose in making possible
17:52 the redemption of billions of human beings.
17:54 It's not just the universe.
17:55 It's the earth, it's every species of life
17:58 that has existed on the earth, every event.
18:01 I mean that's kinda what I'm writing
18:02 in Weather and Climate Change.
18:04 Every event in the history of the earth
18:07 plays a role in opening up
18:09 this extraordinary window
18:11 in which billions of us can exist.
18:13 I wanna interrupt just for a moment
18:16 to talk to the audience
18:17 because I want them to listen to this.
18:20 Everything in the universe,
18:24 gravity, dark matter,
18:26 dark energy, it's all fine tuned
18:28 to a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth.
18:31 Well, change any of the laws of physics.
18:33 Any of the constants that govern the laws of physics
18:36 by something as small as one part
18:38 in a quadrillion quadrillion quadrillion quadrillion,
18:41 you and I wouldn't be here,
18:43 there wouldn't be any life anywhere in the universe.
18:46 Moreover everything we see for example,
18:49 every planet in our solar system
18:51 must be in the position,
18:52 the orbit and the mass
18:54 that it is to make advanced civilization
18:56 possible here on earth.
18:58 Be kind to me.
19:01 How can a person, how can a person be rational
19:06 and see that you've got so much fine tuning,
19:08 not only on this planet but out in the universe.
19:11 At the commencement of the universe,
19:14 the moment when creation occurred
19:17 and then you've got a trillion things happening
19:20 and they're fine tuned to a trillionth of a trillionth
19:23 of a trillionth of a trillionth.
19:24 Be kind to me, how can a person see this
19:28 and deny the biblical truth that in the beginning
19:32 God created the heavens and the earth.
19:33 Well, what's changed in scientific academia
19:36 is hyper specialization,
19:38 where 300 years ago
19:40 we had research scientists that were integrating
19:43 all the scientific disciplines,
19:45 now in order to be able to compete,
19:47 you have to narrowly focus.
19:49 When I was at Caltech, I only had time
19:51 to research and study what was going on
19:54 in high frequency radio astronomy.
19:56 So you don't get the big picture?
19:57 You don't get the big picture,
19:59 now you do see fine tuning in your narrow sub-discipline
20:02 but a lot of my scientist peers say,
20:04 well, it's in my narrow sub discipline
20:06 but I don't think it's anywhere else.
20:08 They haven't looked.
20:10 And that's why we pull scientists
20:12 out of academia
20:13 and give them the freedom
20:15 to do interdisciplinary research
20:17 and show people, scientists included,
20:20 this big picture, the fine tuning is everywhere.
20:24 And it's all focused
20:25 on enabling billions of human beings
20:28 to hear, understand,
20:30 and respond to the gospel message.
20:31 And so, Dr. Ross,
20:32 the fine tuning of the universe,
20:35 in a billion different ways out there in space
20:40 and the fine tuning that is found on planet earth,
20:44 it seems to me to be overwhelming evidence
20:48 that there must be fine tuner.
20:50 It is, that's one reason on our website,
20:53 reason.org/finetuning, you'll find a 300 page
20:58 compendium listing just a tiny fraction
21:01 of the fine tuning evidence,
21:03 but we wanted people to see you know,
21:05 it's not just four or five factors,
21:08 there's thousands of factors that had to be fine tuned.
21:10 So belief in God is not
21:14 an existential leap into the dark?
21:17 It's not blind faith?
21:19 It's not but you got to look at the evidence yourself.
21:22 So your faith is based on an intelligent evidence?
21:27 Right, as the Bible encourages that it must be.
21:29 A lot of people don't understand this
21:31 or believe this.
21:32 Well, I mean the whole Christian faith
21:34 is found on the fact that God's revealed truth
21:37 through two books, The Book of Nature
21:39 and The Book of Scripture.
21:41 But not all Christians believe this.
21:42 I heard a young guy in a big youth congress
21:46 get up and say,
21:47 I believe in the resurrection just because of faith.
21:52 What's your evidence?
21:53 He said, "I don't need any evidence."
21:55 That to me is a terrible staple
21:58 of anti-intellectualism.
22:01 Well, it's also a violation
22:03 of what the Bible is saying about faith.
22:05 If you look up the Greek and Hebrew words for faith
22:08 that are used in the Bible, they all have the definition,
22:11 "Acting upon established truth."
22:15 You don't have faith if you've taken no efforts
22:17 to establish whether or not it's true.
22:19 You also have no faith if you don't act on
22:21 what you know is true.
22:22 So faith is acting upon established truths?
22:24 Established truths. Right.
22:26 Did you hear that, folks,
22:27 faith is acting upon established truths.
22:31 So faith does not supersede truth.
22:34 Faith is based upon truth. Exactly.
22:36 And therefore when you do
22:38 and other scientists do scientific work,
22:44 the aim is to discover truths,
22:49 whether it's truth about global warming
22:51 or the melting of the Antarctic
22:54 or the Arctic or whatever it is,
22:56 it must in be harmony with the statement of Jesus
22:58 who said, "You will know the truth,
23:01 and the truth will make you free."
23:04 Let me ask you this question.
23:07 Are the glaciers melting?
23:09 I was sent an article from Australia not long ago,
23:12 I don't know if I've got it here,
23:14 I can remember it anyhow
23:16 and it said that all this business
23:18 that we've been told,
23:20 that the glaciers are melting down
23:24 in the Antarctic is not true and that the story
23:28 of the canary in the mine
23:31 which is a warning of some impending disaster.
23:35 All of this is basically hocus-pocus.
23:39 Well, there is some validity to that.
23:41 It's not yet known whether or not the ice in Antarctica
23:44 is accumulating or decreasing.
23:46 It's so... It may in fact be accumulating.
23:49 That's still being researched.
23:51 What is well known is that the ice in North America
23:54 and in Greenland is rapidly declining.
23:56 Let's talk about stuff down on the Antarctic.
24:00 So it's certainly not an established truth that...
24:04 Well, we don't have the extensive data
24:06 on the Antarctic that we do in the northern hemisphere.
24:09 Why not?
24:10 Just because we don't have enough stations there.
24:13 Yeah. It hasn't been done.
24:14 Well, lot's been done now,
24:16 means lot of the satellite imagery
24:18 and so we know that,
24:20 you know that huge ice fields
24:21 are carving off of Antarctica and melting
24:24 but evidently new ice is forming.
24:27 There is attempts to try
24:28 and measure just what the precipitation rate is.
24:31 But where we have much more solid data
24:34 is what's happening in Canada, Alaska,
24:36 and Greenland.
24:38 And there, there's really no dispute.
24:41 The glaciers there are declining
24:43 and they're declining quite rapidly.
24:45 And as I've written in my book,
24:47 this could actually bring on the next ice age.
24:50 So...
24:51 Let's take this one step at a time
24:53 so I'm not overwhelmed with factual evidence
24:57 and so that my wonderful audience
24:59 can also keep up.
25:01 So there's, we don't know exactly
25:03 what's happening down South in the Antarctic.
25:06 The evidence is not in.
25:08 But certainly the evidence is in for Canada and Greenland
25:14 and the Arctic.
25:15 What's happening in Canada...? You're a Canadian.
25:18 Well, Canada is experiencing global warming
25:21 to a greater degree than anywhere else in the world
25:23 and incidentally there are some places
25:25 getting colder.
25:27 But Canada's definitely getting warmer.
25:29 In fact global warming in Canada is about 5 times
25:32 the global average.
25:33 Why is this?
25:35 Well, I mean, we talk about the global mean temperature,
25:37 that's averaging over the entire planet.
25:39 Yes.
25:41 And we would expect in a global warming model,
25:43 certain parts of the world are gonna get colder,
25:45 like Eastern Europe, other parts like Canada
25:48 are gonna get warmer and so it's the average
25:52 that where we talk about the fact,
25:54 average over the whole planet where it got about
25:56 a one degree centigrade increase.
25:58 Yes.
25:59 So tell me specifically about
26:02 some of the things that are happening in Canada?
26:05 Well... Which is a beautiful place.
26:07 Yeah, I love it. It's a beautiful place but...
26:10 Nice people. Very polite.
26:13 Yeah.
26:14 But what we've seen in the ice age,
26:17 the ice cores in Greenland and Antarctica,
26:21 is that every time we get a warming
26:23 to an interglacial like we've had
26:25 for the past 10,000 years.
26:27 Typically what happens is that
26:29 the temperature rises sharply
26:31 to about two to three degree centigrade
26:33 above where we are now
26:35 and then we get a rapid temperature drop
26:38 where you go into a long ice age.
26:40 We now understand why that happens.
26:43 It happens because as the temperature peaks
26:45 above where it is now, it melts the polar ice cap.
26:50 Now the polar ice caps reflects sunlight
26:53 with about 60% efficiency,
26:55 but when it melts,
26:57 that open liquid ocean water in the Arctic reflects sunlight
27:01 with only 6% efficiency.
27:03 Well, then it should get hotter, shouldn't it?
27:04 But what happens is,
27:06 it evaporates that open Arctic Ocean water.
27:09 Now you got more water vapor above the Arctic,
27:12 and that causes snow to fall on Siberia and Canada
27:17 and that's what brings on the next ice age.
27:20 And so global warming actually has the risk
27:23 that if you allow the global warming
27:24 to persist to about two degree centigrade
27:27 above where we are now,
27:29 you could melt the polar ice cap,
27:31 and drop the temperature by 10-15 degrees.
27:34 Now, Dr Ross, we're gonna continue this
27:36 in the next session.
27:37 We're talking about global warming,
27:41 and we're going to talk in the next segment
27:43 about a Bible prophecy that maybe alludes
27:47 to man's interference with the laws of nature.
27:52 You're watching The Carter Report
27:54 and my guest today is
27:56 world famous scientist Dr. Hugh Ross.
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