“There are two great acts of political make-believe in our time, so all-pervasive that it is hard for us to grasp just how much effect they are having on our lives,” writes Christopher Booker in The Telegraph.
“How forlorn in light of all this looks that would-be well-meaning 300-page document in which the Pope, under the spell of his chief scientific adviser, a fanatical German climate activist called Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, calls for an end to use of the very fossil fuels which keep the Vatican’s own lights on. In asking us to pray for that global climate treaty, Pope Francis solemnly trots out all those familiar plaints about “melting polar ice caps”, “rising sea levels”, unprecedented droughts, “extreme weather events” and the rest of that greenie litany which has no basis in honest science whatever.”
“The outside world is no longer listening to this claptrap. But it is not just the world outside the West which is beginning to call the shots. Reality itself is now knocking loudly at the door.”
Read the full article here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11688994/The-Pope-joins-the-EU-in-a-sad-world-of-make-believe.html
Thanks to Andrew Stranglen for this link
“The animosity between the AGW/Climate Change advocates and the Climate Realists, now branded as {evil} ‘Deniers’ seems to have been kicked into high gear by the release of the Pope’s latest Encyclical,” says Andrew. “Unfortunately so far this does not appear to be leading to a conducive rational discussion of the issue, and that is to the detriment of the entire world. (just read some of the comments at the article from The Telegraph).
It seems to me that the only thing that might stave off the plunging of the world into economic and social chaos through implementation of reckless schemes such as curtailing the use of so-called fossil fuels, and global carbon taxes, is a continued and accelerated climate cooling phase.
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