My reaction to the title was to sigh, “Oh, boy,” but in reading Jeffrey’s work, I must say he has done, on the whole, a commendable job in documenting why the global-warming alarmists are alarmists.
Jeffrey documents that the earth’s temperature does indeed change – up and down – in cycles. The media, and Al Gore in particular, has exaggerated the “evidence” for global-warming out of any rational proportion, humans and fossil fuels are not the primary contributor of increased CO2 emissions (he cites solar flares, I would point out the cattle that we force breed and genetically hurry from the womb to the plate cause far more CO2 build up that all of humanity – and even that is nothing compared with the hype presented), and, after “Climate Gate,” it is well documented that the major proponents of the theory have purposefully distorted and hidden scientific evidence that proves the theory wrong (117ff).
Jeffrey writes about how it was not all that long ago that some were arguing that a build-up of CO2 gasses would cause a sudden ice age (65ff). I well remember being taught that in the public schools – the next ice age is right around the bend, and all of human civilization will change because of it. Well…. (I also remember learning in the public schools that we had to learn the metric system because no one would use the old European style of measurement for more than another decade, but that’s another story….)
Jeffrey documents that the only actual temperature data we have begins way back in the 1970’s – the rest of the “data” we have is inferred (77ff).
In chapter ten, he loosely connects global-warming to the push by some in the same camp to have mandatory population control – which – theoretically, would reduce CO2 emissions and make humanity able to survive on the reduced economic existence proposed for the bottom 80% of humanity.I was waiting for chapter ten, in which Jeffrey rightly explains that God gave humanity dominion over the earth – meaning that we are to care for it and protect it, and we show – wisely and truthfully. We recycle everything we can at home and in our church, and we waste as little as possible, use things until they are unusable, some of us are even antivivisectionists and vegetarians and vegans out of care for each other and the Creation. (Jeffrey does not go this “far” in his book, but I find it a logical and biblical progress.)
However, it is at this point that Jeffrey, in my opinion, “jumps the shark.” Jeffrey, finally, turns to the books of Revelation and through some interesting meshing together of facts with interpretive bits, he concludes that the global-warming “deception” is a plot by the Whore of Babylon, the Roman Catholic Church, to bring about one world religion and one world government, which will also bring in the reign of the Anti-Christ. I really wish he had just stuck with cataloguing the evidence of the lack of evidence for global-warming. This interpretation of Revelation will push many people away from all the good of the book, in part because it is not well documented or argued, and because it is, in my understanding, a misunderstanding of the book of Revelation. I am thankful that he argues for the Sovereignty of God in history, but I cannot recommend this book to the general population. It is a good reference for data against the excesses of global warming theory, but it falls apart in his interpretation of prophecy.
[This review appears on Amazon.com and on my blog. I received this book for free form WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review.] 
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