I got this email today:

I am a student at City of Glasgow College and as part of the Cop26 summit we have been tasked to find comments on how climate change has affected your life and your country. We are looking for around 50-100 words.

My response will probably come as a shock:

Hard data from IPCC and NOAA (not GCMs, which grossly exaggerate CO2’s warming and its consequences) show no increase in frequency or severity of extreme weather in America (or the world); increasing financial losses from it are due solely to increasing wealth in its path, while weather-related mortality has fallen 98% since 1900. So, the ~1°C warming since 1900 has had no significant effect on America. But scientifically unjustified hype and fear have cost us hundreds of billions of dollars wasted to curb global warming, for no good reason, and have sadly polarized our people.

No doubt the student will be surprised. Maybe she’ll even wonder whether what I said is true. Who knows? Maybe I’ll spur one person to “test all things, hold fast what is good” (1 Thessalonians 5:21).

Photo of bridge at Louisville, KY, by Miles Manwaring on Unsplash.