Challenging Climate Change: Some 'Inconvenient Facts'
Watch Gary Lane's Set It Straight interview with geologist Gregory Wrightstone to learn some "inconvenient facts" about climate change.
In his recent address to a joint session of Congress, French President Emmanuel Macron urged the United States to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord.
"We are killing our planet, " Macron said. "Let's face it, there is no planet b."
But climate change skeptics say the French president and other globalists are just pushing more mumbo-jumbo because the earth's climate is always changing. They say the Paris Climate Agreement may have already cost governments around the world as much as $100-trillion.
Geologist Gregory Wrightstone is the author of the book, Inconvenient Facts: What Al Gore Doesn't Want You to Know About Climate Change. In the book, he provides 60 "inconvenient facts" that he says come from government sources and scientific research.
President Donald Trump called the Paris accord a "terrible deal" and has said the United States will withdraw unless substantial changes are made.
Under terms of the 2016 agreement signed by President Obama and 200 nations, the United States cannot officially withdraw until 2020.
Wrightstone supports Trump's position and debunks apocalyptic climate predictions.
"Donald Trump was very, very right in getting us out of there. Kudos to him and kudos to (EPA Administrator) Scott Pruitt who needs to have a finding that C02 is not actually a pollutant."
Prior to his death, scientist Stephen Hawking said Trump's decision to withdraw could be catastrophic to the world and cause lasting damage to the climate.
But Trump insists although the United States has some of the toughest anti-pollution regulations of any country, it is unfairly punished by the accord's method of taxation and carbon credits.
He said quitting the pact would save 2.7 million jobs that would be lost by 2025.
"Not only does this deal subject our citizens to harsh economic restrictions, it fails to live up to our environmental ideals," said the president.
"As someone who cares deeply about the environment, which I do, I cannot in good conscience support a deal that punishes the United States — which is what it does -– the world's leader in environmental protection, while imposing no meaningful obligations on the world's leading polluters."
Wrightstone says Al Gore and those who say temperatures suddenly changed at the beginning of the 20th century have disregarded science.
"That's not how science, that's not how nature works. Your listeners aren't idiots. They understand those same drivers that have been driving temperatures in the latest warming trend since 1695, (those) same natural drivers didn't suddenly stop. They're still driving temperatures today."
About The Author
Mr. Lane served as International News Director and Senior International Correspondent for CBN News. He traveled to more than 120 countries—many of them restricted nations or areas hostile to Christianity and other minority faiths where he has interviewed persecution victims and provided video reports and analysis for CBN News. Also, he provided written stories and served as a consultant for the Voice of the Martyrs.
Gary joined The Christian Broadcasting Network in 1984 as the first full-time Middle East Correspondent for CBN News. Based in Jerusalem, Gary produced reports from Beirut on the Lebanese civil war. He was reassigned to Washington, D.C., at the start of President Reagan’s second term and served as National Security Correspondent from the U.S. State Department, Pentagon, Capitol Hill, and the White House.
Gary left CBN briefly in 1988 to work as Senior Press Secretary for Pat Robertson’s presidential campaign. Afterward, he returned to Washington and served as Washington Bureau Chief for CBN News from 1989-1992.
Gary transferred to CBN headquarters in Virginia Beach in 1996, where he began more extensive international traveling and reporting as a Senior Correspondent.
In addition to his extensive reporting on Christian persecution, Gary is also known for his reporting on the civil war in Sudan. He made 20 trips to the country since 1993 and also testified before Congress about the plight of Burmese refugees.
Gary produced numerous documentaries, including Americans Abandoned for the American Defense Institute, which afforded him the opportunity to become the first American journalist granted access to the Vietnamese Defense and Cultural Film archives. The investigative film about American POWs featured Vietnam War footage never seen before by Americans.
Gary also produced several persecution documentaries, including one about Christians in Egypt for Freedom House—Their Blood Cries Out—and another about attacks in Indonesia for The Voice of the Martyrs—Island Jihad. He also worked as a production consultant and videographer for the VOM video specials Underground Reality Vietnam and Underground Reality Colombia.
Over the years, Gary covered wars in Lebanon, Israel, Nicaragua, Angola, Burma, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Colombia, Libya, and Syria. He won several awards, including one from the National Gulf War Resource Center for his groundbreaking investigative reporting of Gulf War Illness, an affliction affecting veterans of Operation Desert Storm. The Australian Evangelical Press Association gave him an award for his reporting of a church massacre that occurred in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, shortly after 9-11.
Gary left CBN in 2000 to join the Voice of The Martyrs as their News Director, where he directed the mission’s multimedia efforts. Those included the website, monthly newsletter, video productions, publications, press releases, and media interviews.
Gary rejoined CBN in late 2003 as International News Director/Senior Correspondent. He served as executive producer of three weekly international news programs: Christian World News (CWN); Mundo Cristiano, a Spanish version of CWN produced in Costa Rica; and an Arabic language version of CWN, CWN Arabic, which was broadcast throughout North Africa and the Middle East. He also hosted and produced the weekly CBN News Channel program, The Global Lane.
Prior to CBN, Gary worked for various local television stations in Michigan, including one owned by Time Inc. and another by Knight-Ridder. Before that, he worked at local radio stations in Flint and Detroit.
Gary is a 1979 honors graduate of The University of Michigan, Flint, where he served as political editor of The University News, studied pre-law, and received an A.B. in political science and history.
