There are more fires on a Tuesday while fires are less likely on a Sunday says a new study done by University of Melbourne. The study highlights the dramatic effect of humans, religion and culture on the global climate.
Dr. Nick Earl found that fires around the world appear to be strongly influence by the working week and particularly days of rest associated with religion.
“Of the more than a billion global fires that burned between the years 2001 and 2013, Sunday was the least active day with only 104 million fires. There were nine million fewer fires (8%) on Sunday than on a Tuesday in the middle of the working week.
“This study shows there’s a very clear weekly pattern to fires around the world,” says Dr. Earl. “Nature doesn’t adhere to the weekly cycle, so this really highlights the influence we have on the planet when it comes to fires.”
Dr. Earl’s study is the first time the seven-day weekly cycle has been analyzed in relation to global fires.
The study also showed that in Muslim countries or in areas where there are higher populations of Muslims, there were fewer fires on Thursday and Friday rather than Sunday.
“…Friday is the ‘day of assembly’ and prayer for the Muslim faith, so it actually strengthens the argument for how religion impacts our climate,”
Dr. Earl says.
The Lord is teaching men that there are limits to His forbearance. In fires, in floods, in earthquakes, in the fury of the great deep, in calamities by sea and by land, the warning is given that God’s Spirit will not always strive with men. The times in which we live are times of great depravity and crime of every degree. Why?–because men whom God has blessed and favored have reduced His holy law to a dead letter, making void the law of God by the traditions and inventions of the man of sin. A more-than-common contempt is put upon the commandments of God, while the representative men… have exalted the first day of the week to be observed by all men. They would have men bow down and worship it, as did Nebuchadnezzar when he exalted the golden image in the plains of Dura. When wickedness comes to this pass, it is fast reaching its height. Well may the prayer go forth from the people of God, calling for His interference, “It is time for Thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void Thy law.” Manuscript Release, Vol 3, page 315
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