PopeWatch was amused by this opening breathless paragraph at the leftist website Think Progress:
Go here to read the rest. Had the Pope gone full frontal warmist? Is green theology to become dogma? I doubted it and so I went to the source. Here is what the Pope said in full:
Dear Brothers and Sisters, good day!
This is what caused all the excitement? Creation is a gift from God and we should use it wisely? I defy anyone to come up with any pope who ever stood in the shoes of the fisherman who would disagree. If Pope Benedict had said this, the media would have reacted with a yawn, if the statement had been noticed at all outside of the Vatican and the more obsessive Catholic blogs. The media meme however is that the Pope is a leftist radical and even this trite sermon on Creation has to be fitted into that meme.
“Had the Pope gone full frontal warmist? Is green theology to become dogma?”
I note with irony that those who preach the religion of anthropogenic global warming rarely if ever support the only source of energy that can effectively replace green-house gas emitting fossil fuel: nuclear.
The road to Hell is paved with good intention. Pope Francis would (unintentionally) condemn billions of the least of His brothers to misery and privation.
In France, it is very notable that it is the Hard Left that have been most suspicious of the Environmental Movement. Here are two interesting quotations:
“Without ecology, nothing would have enough authority to gag any and all objections to the exorbitant progress of control. Tracking, transparency, certification, eco-taxes, environmental excellence, and the policing of water, all give us an idea of the coming state of ecological emergency. Everything is permitted to a power structure that bases its authority in Nature, in health and in well-being.”
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“There is no “environmental catastrophe.” The catastrophe is the environment itself. The environment is what’s left to man after he’s lost everything. Those who live in a neighbourhood, a street, a valley, a war zone, a workshop – they don’t have an “environment;” they move through a world peopled by presences, dangers, friends, enemies, moments of life and death, all kinds of beings. Such a world has its own consistency, which varies according to the intensity and quality of the ties attaching us to all of these beings, to all of these places. It’s only us, the children of the final dispossession, exiles of the final hour – the ones who come into the world in concrete cubes, pick our fruit at the supermarket, and watch for an echo of the world on television – only we get to have an environment.”
Our Creator, God, Himself put Adam, the first man, in charge, in stewardship of creation. Without the acknowledgement of God, the global alarmists are a bunch of plagiarists.
Manmade global warming is likely true. It is also irrelevant.
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The fact is that even if we stop our CO2 emissions the planet will continue to get warmer due to solar warming. The sun is continually getting warmer and has been for five billion years, thanks to the accumulation of helium in the core resulting from fusion reactions. Come back in a million years or so and it will be measurably warmer. The oceans will be steaming in seventy million. The environmentalist dream of a stable ecosystem is a fantasy.
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Up until now the earth’s biosphere has continually modified the atmosphere to maintain the habitability of the planet. We are now at the end of this process. There are no further changes that non-human life can do that will ensure that the planet will remain habitable until its eventual destruction in another five billion years.
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It would seem that the only way that life can continue for the long term on earth is for humans to develop and use terraforming technologies that would maintain its current characteristics. It would seem that, instead of being a cancer on the planet (as radical environmentalists claim), we may have arrived just in time to save it. Certainly, if we were to abandon our modern industrial society for a totally ‘green’ lifestyle we would not only doom billions of human lives to misery and death, but we would prevent the development of terraforming and thus doom the very global ecosystem we say we want to save.
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That is quite a paradox, and it makes one wonder if radical environmentalism is another -ism that, like Social Darwinism before the world wars, will lead to great evil if not checked and countered.
I am reminded of the Obelisk in the courtyard of the Vatican in Rome and its symbollic reference to the Eqyptian mystery religions and a pagan Generative spirit. Past Popes have caused the Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ to be firmly affixed upon the summit of this pagan symbol, thus proclaiming to the world Christ’s victory over paganism and its works.
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The same Christian conquest of paganism is evident in the Pantheon; once a place of worship for Rome’s pagan gods, and now a Catholic Church where Catholics assemble to worship the one true God. The Cross, by the Church, converted that which was pagan to Catholicism by overcoming the powers and principalities of this world.
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So too does Pope Francis reclaim for Christ the proper care and stewardship of Nature so that it may provide for man’s needs as directed by God in Revelation. The Ecological movement does not belong to pagan forces who would immanentize nature and make it a god. Caring for Nature has been proclaimed by Christ’s vicar as a Catholic cause. The Cross has been affixed by Pope Francis atop the Ecological movement.
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I can see in the Holy Father’s remarks, an admonition to practice crop rotation and avoid pollution but nothing to buttress the extreme positions of climate alarmists. Some of these would seem to have us repeal the industrial revolution, prior to which the world population was less than one billion. It makes one wonder if some warming alarmists wish to eliminate about six-billion of us. I have yet to hear a good answer to why the Medieval Warming Period was warmer than the recent one, and why is CO2 not more likely a result of a warmer climate than the cause. When one makes beer and wine, CO2 results from fermentation but the process is arrested if the temperature falls too low. CO2 is a fertilizer that spurs plant growth which in turn converts CO2 into O2. Finally, is it not peculiar that solutions proffered to cure anthropogenic global warming invariably lead to a global tyranny?
William P. Walsh: “Finally, is it not peculiar that solutions proffered to cure anthropogenic global warming invariably lead to a global tyranny? ”
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If, indeed, global warming is a fact, education must induce peoples’ cooperation. Otherwise, tyranny does result. A peoples’ free will in operation will produce more results.
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On a happier note, college students agreed to prohibit the use of H2O to prevent global warming. Not these students, but other college students believed that chocolate milk came from brown cows and electricity came from the wall.
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TomD: “It would seem that, instead of being a cancer on the planet (as radical environmentalists claim), we may have arrived just in time to save it.” Gaia is not going to like that. No more high priestesses calling the human race “parasites” and calling the shots.
Margaret Thatcher, an asset of the Institute of Economic Affairs which is a British Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) globalization think tank – with a global network of professors – and which set up or took over think tanks all over the western world – first offered funding and other rewards to scientists who could ‘somehow’ convince people that human activity causes climate change.
With the cash incentive, the race was on and man made global warming became an industry based on the conjoured up and publicised theories of a minority of scientists in defiance of the views of the majority.
That Global Warming is man made, is easily proved to be the biggest fraud ever, with the elite set to charge globally for carbon dioxide production that people are even manipulated to believe is carbon; eventhough actual carbon is black stuff.
In Australia elite representative, former Prime Minister Gillard, after promising not ‘to not’ introduce a carbon (sic) tax before being elected, was nevertheless obliged to legislate this, and it has imposing about 23 dollars per ton on carbon-dioxide from power stations and industry, and energy users.
Man made global warming was/is pushed in Australia by main media headed by an MPS think tank member; who is also similarly influential in the stock exchange where carbon trading, has been advocated as investment for speculative profit; and it can be used to print money to prop up stockk markets and economies that have been bankrupted from the same elite circles of financers and others who have caused the world’s problems via their deregulation, deindustrialisation, free trade, their control of credit, and other globalization agendas.
But regarding carbon dioxide: Nature produces an immense amount compared to human production; and it is a clear inert harmless gas essential for life and is ‘always a miniscule fraction’ of one percent of the atmosphere.
Also, ‘true’ science has proved that this carbon dioxide percentage increase does not precede global warming cycles but follows warming and therefore has not and does not cause global warming.
So, it was easy for them in Australia to pass their agenda, but their aim is to have their fraudulent but potentially lucratie global carbon trading scheme go global. See the Great Global Warming Swindle film on YouTube.