If you live in Arizona, you don’t need a scientist to tell you the climate change headlines are real and the weather has been strange. This week, creek beds that are dry most of the year turned into rivers. Last spring, Phoenix hit 100 degrees before the end of March. And this is on top of a summer that may go down as the hottest in the city’s history.

This weekend, Pastor Myckal Morehouse brings Climate Change & The Prophecy Connection to Mesa Palms Seventh-day Adventist Church. Before you come, here is a plain-language look at what has actually been happening to our planet, with the most current numbers we could find, and why so many people are asking about the climate change prophecy in the Bible. Every statistic below links to its source.

Rain and flooding: Arizona, this week

Over the first two days of November, a powerful storm pushed near-record moisture across Arizona. Flagstaff recorded 3.37 inches of rain on Sunday alone, a record for any November day and the third-largest single-day total in 128 years of recordkeeping. Over two days the city totaled more than 5 inches. Workman Creek, a wilderness area near Phoenix, measured 7.3 inches. Roads washed out, hundreds of people were evacuated, and a bridge collapsed in Pinetop-Lakeside. (Yale Climate Connections, AP)

Across Arizona, southern Colorado and western New Mexico, fifteen river gauges set new all-time flood records in this one storm, and eight others broke records they had just set ten days earlier. (The Weather Company)

This followed an unusual monsoon season. The National Weather Service in Tucson issued 246 flash flood warnings between July and September, more than any year since records began in the 1980s. (AZPM) And on August 29, a flash flood tore through Bright Angel Creek at the Grand Canyon, the park’s biggest flood since 1966. (summary)

Heat: Phoenix, 2026

Phoenix reached 100 degrees in mid-March this year, the earliest triple-digit reading the city has ever recorded. On March 20 the high hit 105, the hottest March temperature in Phoenix history. (KJZZ)

By late September, 2026 was on track to be the hottest year on record in Phoenix. Most of the heat records broken this year have been overnight lows, meaning the city is no longer cooling off the way it used to. (KJZZ)

The human cost is real. As of late October, Maricopa County had confirmed 462 heat-related deaths this year, already more than all of 2025, with another 285 deaths still under investigation. (Arizona Republic)

Air: Phoenix, 2026

The American Lung Association’s 2026 “State of the Air” report ranks the Phoenix metro area fourth worst in the nation for ozone (smog), with nearly 1.4 million Arizona children living with unhealthy air. (ADEQ, American Lung Association)

Oceans: the warmest ever measured

On August 22, 2026, the average surface temperature of the world’s oceans reached 21.1°C (about 70°F), the highest daily value ever recorded, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. August 2026 was also the warmest August on record for the oceans. (Copernicus)

By the end of June, roughly 82 percent of the global ocean was in a “marine heatwave,” meaning water temperatures well above normal for weeks at a time. (Copernicus Marine) By September, Florida’s reefs were under the highest coral bleaching alert levels.

Glaciers: four years of loss, everywhere

The world’s glaciers lost about 408 billion tonnes of ice in 2025, enough to fill five Olympic swimming pools every second of the year. It was the fourth year in a row that every one of the world’s 19 major glacier regions lost ice, and six of the seven worst years on record have come in the last seven years. (Copernicus European State of the Climate, World Glacier Monitoring Service study)

Closer to home, South Cascade Glacier in Washington had its biggest loss since measurements began in 1958. (USGS)

Climate change prophecy: what does the Bible say?

Two thousand years ago, Jesus described the days before His return this way: “There will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring” (Luke 21:25). Perplexity. Distress. Roaring seas. It reads like a headline.

This seminar is not here to tell you what to fear. The climate is changing; that is not up for debate in these sessions. The questions we will ask are different: Did the Bible see this coming? How can a global crisis be used to reshape society and limit freedom? And where is real hope found, not in fear, and not in any government or program, but in the promise that Christ will return and set the earth right?

Free climate change seminar this weekend in Mesa, Arizona

Climate Change & The Prophecy Connection
Mesa Palms Seventh-day Adventist Church
6263 E Thomas Rd, Mesa, AZ
All times are Arizona time. Free admission, no cost, nothing to sign.

• Friday, November 6, 7:00 PM — Session 1: The Climate Change Prophecy
• Saturday, November 7, 4:00 PM — Session 2: Rest For Planet Earth
• Saturday, November 7, 6:00 PM — Session 3: The Great Climate Crisis Agenda
• Sunday, November 8, 4:00 PM — Session 4: Climate Change Trojan Horse
• Sunday, November 8, 6:00 PM — Session 5: The Trojan Horse Comes To America

A free dinner is served Saturday and Sunday at 5:00 PM, between the two sessions, and a free children’s program runs during every session. Each session is about an hour. You’re welcome at any of them, but opening night sets the stage for the rest.

Reserve your free seat here. Walk-ins are welcome, but reserving helps the host church plan seating and meals. Bring a friend, bring your questions, and weigh the evidence for yourself.