SCIENCE · SCRIPTURE · WATCHFULNESS
Climate Change Is Real
The instruments show a warming atmosphere and ocean. Scripture gives us a framework for creation under strain, increasing sorrows, responsible stewardship and future restoration.
Read the September 2026 flood investigation →Faith does not require us to ignore a thermometer
Climate is measured over decades; weather is what happens today. Thermometers, satellites, ocean buoys, tide gauges and rainfall stations show that the planet has warmed, ocean heat has risen, sea level has increased and heavy precipitation has intensified in many observed regions. These are measurements, not a rival worldview.
Bible believers can examine those measurements without surrendering biblical authority. The earth belongs to the Lord. Humanity was appointed to tend what He made. Creation now groans under corruption, and Scripture looks toward both judgment and restoration. Good science describes physical processes; Scripture tells us who made the world, why it matters and where history is going.
A warmer world can be both wetter and drier
A warmer atmosphere can hold roughly seven percent more water vapor for every 1°C of warming. When storms organize, that larger moisture supply can produce heavier downpours. At the same time, heat increases evaporation and can intensify drought where rain does not arrive.
This is why one flooded state does not prove every climate claim—and one dry state does not disprove warming. NOAA found summer 2026 was the hottest U.S. summer on record while national precipitation ranked in the driest third. Indiana and Ohio nevertheless had their wettest August on record. The contrast is part of the signal.
Creation groaneth and travaileth
“For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.”Romans 8:22 (KJV)
Paul's words are larger than modern climate science. They describe creation's condition between the Fall and final redemption. Yet they make Christian indifference impossible: the physical world is not meaningless scenery.
What Jesus said—and what He did not say
In Matthew 24, Jesus names deception, wars, famines, pestilences and earthquakes, then calls them “the beginning of sorrows.” The KJV phrase translates an image of labor pains. Extreme weather is not separately listed in that sentence, so we should not rewrite the text. Luke 21 does add distress connected with “the sea and the waves roaring,” and Revelation presents future judgments involving land, sea, rivers, heat and hail.
Taken together, Scripture anticipates a world of compounding upheaval, a creation under strain, and unmistakable environmental judgments still to come. Present extremes are not permission to set a date. They are reasons to watch soberly, help our neighbors and take Christ's warnings seriously.
Heat
WMO reports August 2026 was the hottest August in the observational record. Heat also raises evaporation and compounds health, crop and wildfire risks.
Heavy rain
IPCC finds heavy precipitation has intensified over much of the land area with reliable observations, including North America, Europe and Asia.
Flooding
Rainfall intensity, saturated ground, terrain, drainage, land use and rising seas combine to determine whether a storm becomes a flood disaster.
El Niño
El Niño redistributes heat and changes rainfall odds. The 2026 event is forecast to become very strong, but it is not the sole cause of every flood.
Stewardship
Dominion is accountable care, not permission to waste. Protecting life, water, land and vulnerable neighbors is consistent with loving God and neighbor.
Watchfulness
Watch the measurements, test claims, heed warnings, reject panic and read the cited Scriptures in context. Evidence before sensationalism.
