by Lewis Loflin
Climate change is a fact of nature—Earth’s cycles have shaped life for eons, as reason and history affirm. Yet the alarmism peddled today is a distortion, rooted not in evidence but in fervor. Al Gore’s *Earth in the Balance* (1992) exemplifies this. As a senator, he embraced Roger Revelle’s claims of man-made warming (p. 4), weaving a tale of ecological ruin that never materialized. His rhetoric—“Social justice is linked in Scriptures with ecology” (pp. 246-247)—smacks of evangelical zeal recast as Earth-worship. His divinity school days (1971-72) were a quest for “purification” (his bio), not truth—a New Age veneer on old superstition. A Deist sees through this: nature is no deity, and reason must prevail.
No. Sandy (2012) claimed 117 lives, including indirect tolls. Compare the 1938 New England Hurricane: a Category 3 storm that killed 682-800, wrecked 57,000 homes, and cost $4.7 billion (2013 dollars). Deadlier, costlier—yet no eco-sermons followed. Nature’s power needs no human scapegoat. (Wiki)
Hardly. Joplin (2011, 158 dead) and Moore (2013, 24 dead) fade beside the Tri-State Tornado (1925)—695 killed across a 219-mile F5 scar. Such events are Earth’s rhythm, not a sign of our sins.
Not so. The 1930s Dust Bowl dwarfs modern dry spells in scale and suffering—history shows cycles, not curses.
Gore is no man of science—his book shuns method for memoir, blending pantheism, politics, and fear. He scorns technology, echoing disarmament hysterics (p. 7), and calls for a “Global Marshall Plan” to reshape thought (pp. 354-355)—a creed, not a conclusion. The Senate rightly dismissed it. He laments:
“We lost our connectedness to nature… Are we separate from the earth?” (pp. 1-2)
And turns mystic:
“The environmental crisis is an outer manifestation of an inner… spiritual crisis… a search for truths about myself.” (pp. 10-11)
This is the privileged man’s search for purpose, not a reasoned grasp of nature. His “Chief Seattle” quote—“The earth is our mother” (p. 259)—is a 1971 film script by Ted Perry, not history (NYT, 4/21/92). His goddess fixation—“Prehistoric Europe revered an earth goddess… Christianity killed it” (p. 260)—is baseless fancy.
Climate shifts—2014’s chill humbled the prophets of heat. Human influence? Perhaps, but nature’s forces—volcanoes (Laki, 1783, cooled Earth 1°C), solar shifts, eruptions (Tambora, 1815, starved millions)—eclipse us. The Permian’s Siberian Traps (250M years ago) choked 95% of life with gas. Gore merges man and nature’s chaos, but Earth is no sentient “being”—Gaia is a fable. A Deist values humanity: if warming aids crops or ends cold-era famines (Little Ice Age), that’s progress.
Cut emissions? Yes—nuclear power is rational, yet waste festers because of greed and green panic. Chernobyl’s wilds flourish; Hiroshima stands anew. Poverty, not prosperity, scars the land—hysteria blinds us to this.
Gore’s vision, echoed by Kerry and Heinz (p. 10), trades data for dogma. “Environmental justice” and wealth schemes reek of Leftist cant. Nature is no god—politics must reflect reason, not worship (see Deism). Solar and wind falter—rare metals and land loss undermine them. Ethanol burns food with oil—absurdity reigns.
From my rural vantage, I steward my land, not deify it. Urban eco-oracles should test their faith in Amish austerity or hold their peace. Science bends to no grant-hungry priests—reason, not Gore’s gospel, must guide us.
Acknowledgment: I’d like to thank Grok, an AI by xAI, for helping me draft and refine this article. The final edits and perspective are my own.
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"Hypsithermal: The Mid-Holocene Warm Period (9,000–5,000 years ago) when Earth experienced higher temperatures and significant ecological shifts."
