The 38^th through 41^st chapters of the Book of Job are among the most majestic, awe-inspiring passages in all literature, inside and outside the Bible. I cannot read them and not feel small, humbled by the omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience of God.

They record questions God hurls rapid-fire, “out of the whirlwind,” at Job to impress on him his utter inability to control or even to explain the day-to-day events of the world. Here are a few, from Job 38:4–20:

• Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements- surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
• Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb, when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band, and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors, and said, “Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed”?
• Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place, that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it? …
• Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep? Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness? Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this.
• Where is the way to the dwelling of light, and where is the place of darkness, that you may take it to its territory and that you may discern the paths to its home?

After all those questions God mercilessly attacks Job’s pride with the sarcastic words, “You know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!” His point is clear: Job certainly doesn’t know, he wasn’t born then, and his lifetime is utterly insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

The next questions (verses 22–35) introduce a new focus. Before God focused on earth and sea. Now He focuses on sky—what we now would call the atmosphere and outer space with all its galaxies—the realm of weather and climate:[i]

• Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail, which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?
• What is the way to the place where the light is distributed, or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?
• Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain and a way for the thunderbolt, to bring rain on a land where no man is, on the desert in which there is no man, to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground sprout with grass?
• Has the rain a father, or who has begotten the drops of dew?
• From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the frost of heaven? The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
• Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loose the cords of Orion? Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or can you guide the Bear with its children?
• Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?
• Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that a flood of waters may cover you?
• Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go and say to you, “Here we are”?

And the answer to every one of those questions is, “No.” Job doesn’t know, he doesn’t understand, he doesn’t control, he cannot control, all these “forces of nature.” But all of them are under God’s constant control. They all do His bidding.

For many years I’ve admired people who have spent their lives studying weather and climate, some of the most mysterious aspects of God’s creation. One of the things I’ve admired about them is their readiness to admit the limits of their knowledge.

But in the last few decades a different spirit has taken control of much of the community of meteorologists and climatologists—a spirit that I can only describe as one of arrogance, or the know-it-all, the unteachable and uncorrectable. And that’s the spirit that dominates particularly among the high priests of climate alarmism. It is a spirit—and I use that word with full recognition that it denotes not just a frame of mind but a malignant, personal agent—that is utterly out of keeping with the heritage of meteorologists from generations past.

That’s why Joe Bastardi and his book The Climate Chronicles: Inconvenient Revelations You Won’t Hear from Al Gore—And Others are so refreshing.

Joe—I’m honored to call him friend—has been in love with the weather since he was a child. He learned from his father, a Texas A&M meteorologist, the importance of looking at the past to understand the present and formulate reasonable forecasts of the future. This methodology reveals distinct cyclical patterns that are the foundation of his exceptionally accurate forecasting. It also reveals the huge flaws in the climate alarmist movement, which with amazing regularity proclaims severe weather events as “the new normal” when a longer memory recognizes them as merely the normal.

Joe understands that advanced scientific techniques, including computer modeling, can add to our understanding. But he also understands that they are tools to use, not answers that demand unthinking acceptance.

That unthinking acceptance characterizes much of the climate alarmist movement. Sometime in the late 1990s, and among some people even earlier, it ceased being a genuine quest for understanding and became a mission for conquest—conquest not of climate (though there is an element of that), but of humanity in the name of protecting climate, and, along the way, conquest of anyone with the courage, crucial to science, to question.

In The Climate Chronicles, Joe Bastardi examines the clash between the humble, truly scientific frame of mind that learns from the past and the arrogant, unscientific frame of mind that minimizes or ignores the past and uses climate and weather to further a political agenda.

A veteran broadcast meteorologist who took seriously his responsibility to inform the public of near-term weather developments that could threaten life and property, Joe chastens the media for its willing compliance with the climate alarmist agenda. The result has been a clash between traditional meteorologists, marked by humility and the scientific mindset that is always ready to reassess, and the new breed of “climate scientists” who have sacrificed their scientific integrity to promote a dangerous ideology that threatens to undermine freedom, prosperity, and health for billions.

By revealing that clash, The Climate Chronicles helps readers dig beneath the headlines. It is a must read for those seeking not an agenda-driven answer, but the right answer, wherever it may lead. Joe’s goal is not to get anyone to blindly accept his word, but equip them to test for themselves.

That’s why, while supply lasts, through the month of March, I want to send you a FREE copy of The Climate Chronicles as my way of saying “Thank you!” for a gift of ANY size to support the Cornwall Alliance. To receive your copy, when you make your tax-deductible donation just mention Promo Code 1803 and ask for The Climate Chronicles. You can donate quickly and easily by credit card through our secure online website, or by mailing your check to Cornwall Alliance, 3712 Ringgold Rd., Chattanooga, TN 37412.

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[i] The galaxies the realm of weather and climate? Yes. While it’s long been obvious how important the Sun is to Earth’s weather and climate, we’ve learned in recent decades that stars and even whole galaxies beyond our Milky Way are also important. From them come cosmic rays, which, modulated by solar magnetic wind, contribute to the formation of clouds, which in turn affect local, regional, and global temperature, precipitation, and wind currents.