Tuesday, March 4, President Obama revealed his Fiscal Year 2015 Budget, his wish-list for next year. It has already been derided by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, but that doesn’t make it irrelevant. It signals the goals of the Obama Administration.

Included in the $3.9 trillion budget was $10.8 billion earmarked for climate change-related initiatives in addition to the $7.9 billion EPA budget. That makes a total of $18.7 billion of your money.

Where would this money go?

One billion dollars goes to the Climate Resilience Fund.

This fund is being created to aid Americans preparing for a changing climate. What does that mean exactly? Among other things, research into anthropogenic global warming-induced natural disasters such as sea level rise, wildfires, and drought.

That means $1 billion dollars is going to prevent a problem that doesn’t exist.

The earth has not warmed in 17 years, and since 2002 it has been cooling.

One of the greatest global warming fears is that glaciers will melt and the sea will rise, but glaciers aren’t melting, and in fact are growing.

Droughts can be expensive and cause wildfires and higher food costs. Droughts happen, but currently they’re not nearing the severity or length of past droughts, and there is no evidence that manmade global warming has increased their frequency or intensity. However, they can be prevented by storing appropriate amounts of water for the local population.

Central California is a perfect example. That area was mostly desert until enterprising people settled, built dams and irrigation, and created a fertile area from which much food is produced. Today demand for water exceeds supply. The problems is not climate change, it’s humans not using their God-given talent to create a solution. Planning for the population increase and building more water storage capability would have been an effective solution, one that could work in the long-term, but it is too late for it to help right now.

Another $2.5 billion is earmarked for the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

This program coordinates collaboration among 13 government agencies to research climate change and its impact on society.

Still another $2 billion will be spent on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Weather and climate Satellite Programs.

Satellites provide large amounts of useful data and are not in and of themselves bad expenditures. However, broken and wasteful programs are bad expenditures. According to the Government Accountability Office, these programs “have troubled legacies of cost increases, missed milestones, technical problems, and management challenges that have resulted in reduced functionality and slips to planned launch dates. As a result, the continuity of satellite data is at risk.” Fix the problems before throwing more money after bad.

And $5.2 billion goes to the Department of Energy to research clean energy technologies, as well as an unspecified amount of an additional $2.3 billion for “reducing U.S. dependence on fossil fuels, promoting energy efficiency, and doubling U.S. renewable electricity generation.”

Last, but not least, $48 million will be spent on interagency research into the dangers of hydraulic fracturing.

President Obama has claimed to have an “all of the above” energy strategy, but his constant war on fossil fuels tells the true story. The improvement in the American economy is due to affordable energy.

Affordable energy is provided by the natural gas revolution-which, by the way, is a fossil fuel.

To pay for this waste of money, the President wants to raise taxes on the top 1 percent.

The budget proposal is just that, a proposal. But it demonstrates the President’s values and goals in the coming year. It’s true that with a divided Congress, the budget can’t pass, but the Administration and its
allies in Congress will pull out all the stops to keep as much as they can.President Obama has placed value on falsehood. The falsehood of global warming, the falsehood of junk science, the falsehood of an earth that is too easily damaged and destroyed, the falsehood of the environmental religion. Psalm 86:11 says, “Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.” As Christians we strive for truth, ultimate truth in Jesus Christ, as well as everyday truths. Good policy is based on truth; bad policy is based on falsehood. This climate change policy is based on falsehood; it’s bad policy.