By Elmer Beauregard

I was inspired by Taylor Swift's open letter to Apple which made them change their policy overnight. Hopefully this open letter to the Pontiff and his recent Encyclical on Global Warming will have a similar effect.

Dear Pope,

There have been a lot of articles and letters on your encyclical some have used Galileo as an example where the Church and Science have clashed in the past but for this letter I would like to talk about Joesph Priestly. Joseph Priestly was a Minister and the founder of the Unitarian Church but he also was one of the greatest Chemists of all time. He luckily never had any formal scientific training but instead was just curious about God's creation and wanted to see what made it tick and in doing so he discovered many things.

Priestley discovered oxygen, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide, ammonia, sulphur dioxide, hydrogen sulphide and rubber. He also discovered photosynthesis.

While doing his experiments, Priestley made a very important observation, when he put a mouse under a glass dome with a flame, both the flame and the mouse died. He then added a green plant inside the dome and exposed it to sunlight and it would "refresh" the air allowing the flame to burn and the mouse to breathe. Priestley wrote, "the injury which is continually done by such a large number of animals is, in part at least, repaired by the vegetable creation." He observed that plants release oxygen into the air or the process known as photosynthesis.

Photosynthesis is part of the Carbon Cycle where plants produce Oxygen for us to inhale then we in turn produce Carbon Dioxide (CO2) when we exhale which plants need to grow. Joseph Priestly had discovered what I believe is the "God Designed" engine of life.

I think the Carbon Cycle proves the existence of God because it is too complicated of a process to have happened by accident. It also shows God's wisdom in designing a truly symbiotic system where the waste from animals is food for plants and the waste from plants is Oxygen for us. God designed it to be very robust and adaptable, the more animals there are creates more CO2 which creates a better environment for plants which creates more oxygen for us to breathe and more plants for us to eat. It is truly a win, win.

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.

God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

- Genesis1: 28-31

Nowhere in the Bible did God say go forth and multiply until you hit around 7 billion then stop because the earth can't handle anymore.

The big argument today is how much CO2 should there be in the atmosphere? We are currently at 400 part per million (ppm), some say it should be at 350 ppm because that's what it was in 1990. I think that CO2 levels are way too low if anything plants are CO2 starved. Professional green houses actually have CO2 generators to bring CO2 levels up to as much as 1500 ppm for optimum plant growth as you can see in this video below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2qVNK6zFgE

Atmospheric CO2 levels our not controlled by man but rather by God.

CO2 levels in the atmosphere have been increasing ever since we've been measuring them, they go up between 1 and 2 parts per million per year. Nature not man is producing most of that CO2, man is only responsible for about 3% of the increase. The oceans and the rain forests of the largest producers of atmospheric CO2. If mankind were wiped off the face of the earth CO2 levels would still continue to increase at a similar rate.

In the past CO2 levels were much higher than today, they were around 5000 PPM back during the time of the Garden of Eden before the flood. That's when everything was lush and green and probably why we have so much fossil fuels today. Some think that all of that lush greenery was turned into fossil fuels during Noah's flood. By digging it up and reintroducing into the environment we are just restoring the earth to the Garden of Eden.

I believe that God, not man is in control of the earth's climate which is remarkable steady.

The earth's average temperature has only increased approx 1ºC since 1850 when the earth was coming out of the little ice age. The warming that has occurred has been beneficial, it has warmed mostly in cold places making winters shorter and making for longer growing seasons. Plus, the warming has stopped, there has been no global warming this century.

The increased amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has little to do with the earth's climate, many scientist think that solar activity is the main driver of the climate. The last time I checked man does not control the suns' energy. The poles are not melting like you've heard in the news. While Arctic sea ice is trending down the Antarctic sea ice is increasing. Severe storms are actually decreasing despite what you're hearing in the media.

You may ask why the media is pushing Global Warming so much when there doesn't seem to be a problem. I think that Global Warming is just a hoax and is being pushed by world leaders to create a World Government. I believe they are going to try to do this in Paris this December at COP 21. So please don't buy into the global warming scare only evil will come out of it.

If I were you I would just believe what God promised Noah after the flood.

"Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” - Genesis 8:20

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