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Stop Worrying, The Climate Has Always Changed!
Christian Order ^ | December 2019 | RICCARDO CASCIOLI

Posted on 05/25/2020 10:35:28 AM PDT by ebb tide

Stop Worrying, The Climate Has Always Changed!

When it comes to climate change, even the Church acts like an atheist.

December 2019

When it comes to climate change, even the Church acts like an atheist! The full second part of a series published in October by La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana (The New Daily Compass). Original title. Our sub-heads.

Stop Worrying, The Climate Has Always Changed!

RICCARDO CASCIOLI

Our investigation continues into how the incessant propaganda campaign on climate change has distorted the public’s perception of reality. The first victim of climate change is nature, or to be exact, what we think about nature. We have been led to believe that nature is static and its equilibrium is destroyed exclusively by human presence and activity. We are under the illusion that no change is the norm, like a frozen image that persists to infinity. But this is not the case. Nature is dynamic, it is constantly changing, there is never a season exactly the same as another, and the climate has always changed. We are being brainwashed by a vision rooted in atheism. Regrettably, the Catholic Church has now joined in the chorus.

Change is Normality

The first victim of the incessant propaganda on climate change is nature, or more precisely, what we think about nature. We live in terror of every small sign of change in the weather because collectively we are convinced that nature is static: that it has a definite point of equilibrium which humans — by their presence and activity — have knocked off balance. But climate change, far from being a new phenomenon, the consequence of human iniquity and a harbinger of unimaginable catastrophes, is normality.

Without even taking into account, the five ice ages that characterise the history of the earth well before human beings, just in our era there have been at least four glacial periods (marking significant glacier expansion) interspersed with interglacial periods (lasting 10–12 thousand years). The current era counts as one of these and is approximately 10,700 years old to date. But even interglacial periods are not uniform: just referring to relatively recent history, climate historians recognise periods of warming at the time of the Roman Empire and in the Middle Ages (incidentally named “optimum”), and periods of cooling. The most relevant record noted between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, was referred to as the “little ice age.” The mid-nineteenth century saw the beginning of a new warming period (still in action), which in the last 160 years has produced an increase in average temperatures between 0.8 and 1°C.

But even this latest period of warming is not linear: an increase in global temperatures on the ground between 1850 and 1878 (+0.5°C) is followed by a phase of decrease (in 1911, -0.2°C compared to 1850) and then a new increase until 1945 (+0.5°C compared to 1850). This is followed by a new cooling period that lasts until 1976, when the temperature is just 0.1°C higher than that of 1850. Yet, we recall that in the mid-1970s there were continuous alarms about global cooling. Nonetheless, the temperature started to rise again until 1998 (+0.85°C). Since 1998, variations are minimal and despite constant alarms about the hottest months and years ever, the temperatures have substantially remained stable.

Even if no research on climate cycles existed, we should all know that seasons vary from direct experience; that within a specific climatic zone, there are continuous variations and sometimes extreme events. Thinking about how wines are classified by their year of harvest affirms that each season is a story in itself.

Contrived Panic

Yet today, the continuous campaigns on global warming drive us to pretend that nature is invariable. If the news informs us that this week the temperature is higher than the seasonal average, everyone panics: we will be roasted, we will be submerged by water. But these news reports, intended to create alarm, do not say that the seasonal average is only a calculated statistic which does not correspond to what the temperature should be.

Leaving aside the debate on how much the increase in temperatures is due to natural cycles and how much to human activity — for which there is no definitive proof — the fact remains: we no longer consider that nature is dynamic. We witness public events and major political initiatives against climate change, even though we know that climate change is the norm. Proposals which would have sounded absurd in the recent past and considered worthy of psychiatric treatment today are taken seriously and considered the most important issues facing humanity.

Urban Divorce

This dramatic distortion of how we perceive reality — clearly the intended outcome of those manoeuvring the “climate” theme — is undoubtedly facilitated by the fact that people are less in contact with nature. In Europe, for example, about 75% of the population live in urban realities, practically divorced from any relationship with nature. Above all the younger generations — born and raised in environments where any type of fruit and vegetable is available all year round and food is already cut and ready to consume at the supermarket — lack direct knowledge of natural cycles and what are the basic laws of nature.

Atheistic Fatalism vs Providential Care 

Yet, there is an aspect that remains constant in the relationship between people and the climate which is linked to how people view the world and their destiny. A quote from a sermon by St. Augustine from the fourth century explains this very acutely:

See how things are. We live in bad times. Also, our fathers deplored having to live in bad times and the fathers of our fathers. No one has ever liked the times they have had to live in. But those who age, miss the old days. Every year for the most part we say, when we feel cold: ‘It has never been so cold’. Or we say: ‘It has never been so hot.’ Bad times! But are these times, connected to the movement of the sun, really that bad?

In the past scientists — mostly Catholics — studied climate change by observation to try and understand the laws of nature, so that methods to adapt and protect human communities could be improved. We recall for example the abbot and scientist Antonio Stoppani (1824–1891) who, in his most famous work — Il Bel Paese — linked the retreat of the Alpine glaciers to the warming of the second half of the nineteenth century. He wrote a description of the event in his attempt to explain the phenomenon from a scientific point of view. He raised no alarm nor saw cause for concern that the Alpine snows were melting, probably because not long had passed since the Mont Blanc glaciers were so extensive they threatened the habitations in the valleys below.

In 1881, Stoppani gave a highly successful lecture at the Lincei  Academy, “On the current regression of glaciers in the Alps.” At the conclusion, when King Umberto of Savoy, present at the lecture, showed concern for developments, Stoppani told him, “Don’t worry, providence will take care of it.” Rather than fatalism, he showed a profound knowledge of reality. Not without reason today, climate alarmism and the claim to be able to regulate the temperature of the earth as if we hold a thermostat in our hands, coincides with the cancellation of God from history and is substituted with the presumption that man is the master of the cosmos and history. If there is any novelty and real change of particular note, it is that even members of the Church embrace this atheistic view.

 


TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Religion & Science
KEYWORDS: apostasy; clintonnonnews; cnn; francischism; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; laudatosi; treehuggers
In 1881, Stoppani gave a highly successful lecture at the Lincei Academy, “On the current regression of glaciers in the Alps.” At the conclusion, when King Umberto of Savoy, present at the lecture, showed concern for developments, Stoppani told him, “Don’t worry, providence will take care of it.” Rather than fatalism, he showed a profound knowledge of reality. Not without reason today, climate alarmism and the claim to be able to regulate the temperature of the earth as if we hold a thermostat in our hands, coincides with the cancellation of God from history and is substituted with the presumption that man is the master of the cosmos and history. If there is any novelty and real change of particular note, it is that even members of the Church embrace this atheistic view.


1 posted on 05/25/2020 10:35:28 AM PDT by ebb tide
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Ping


2 posted on 05/25/2020 10:36:32 AM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide

Well only since the industrial revolution. Before that it was always sunny with a high of 78 and a low of 50. :-)


3 posted on 05/25/2020 10:39:14 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: ebb tide
I make this point to all my climate alarmist friends. Venus is the poster child for planetary warming. I tell them that the percentage of CO2 in Venus' atmosphere is 96.5%. Then I ask them, if they know the percentage of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere. Invariably they do not. So take a guess, I say.

You get get guesses like 30% or 50%, Sometimes 20%. I inform them that it is 4/100th of a percent. (NOT 4%, .04%) . It would have to increase 2500% to reach 1%. They think that I am lying.

4 posted on 05/25/2020 10:43:48 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: ebb tide

The earth’s ecosphere is a lot more resilient than people give it credit for.


5 posted on 05/25/2020 10:49:12 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: fhayek

You get get guesses like 30% or 50%, Sometimes 20%. I inform them that it is 4/100th of a percent. (NOT 4%, .04%) . It would have to increase 2500% to reach 1%. They think that I am lying.


Correct. And if you really want to piss them off, tell them their exhaled breath has about 100X more CO2 (by concentration) than the atmosphere.


6 posted on 05/25/2020 10:50:21 AM PDT by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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To: ebb tide

Bookmark.


7 posted on 05/25/2020 11:03:21 AM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: ebb tide

Winter. Spring. Summer fall. Forever

Longer term. Sun spot cycles.

Really long term. Ice ages.

Humans ? Meh !


8 posted on 05/25/2020 11:08:14 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump pence II!)
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To: ebb tide

I have Lefty friend who went into a long rant about climate change.

I just said, “Save the planet, kill yourself.”

He was stymied.


9 posted on 05/25/2020 11:16:24 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Just sit in your house until the food stops coming and then starve. You'll be safe.)
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To: ebb tide

Climate Change is a voodoo doll fetish trying to immitate science. The fetish said this, the fetish said that, the people believe the fetish says the polls.

This thing is a full blown cult seeking funding under science pretense in order to destroy the churches


10 posted on 05/25/2020 11:44:24 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: ebb tide

Paganistic barbarian members of the church nowadays will cowardly ignore their passion for their god’s work on end times telling people to stand down on politics when the government takes over, but then will urge themselves to stand up for Don Quixote type attack on the litteral wind pushing the windmills ... truly unbelievable potemkin battles of potemkin spirits.


11 posted on 05/25/2020 11:48:33 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: ebb tide

Climate change is the result of two things, solar changes, and the moving magnetic polarity on earth.


12 posted on 05/25/2020 3:46:34 PM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: ebb tide
I am all for protecting the earth's natural resources, eliminating air and water pollution - as much as possible, the responsible tending, cultivating and shepherding of all plants and living creatures and doing what we can to honor this incredible "blue marble" home our Creator has given us.

I have always suspected the global cooling/warming/change alarms were nothing more than nefarious power grabs by elitists who have no problem whatsoever with scaring children and shaming adults who dared to disagree with "science". It's shameful how few people actually do objective research anymore and just swallow whatever they are told by the "experts".

13 posted on 05/25/2020 3:51:59 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: ebb tide

its called the weather


14 posted on 05/25/2020 4:53:19 PM PDT by merkova
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15 posted on 05/26/2020 11:31:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: ebb tide

So called “scientists” can’t even look at the Corvid-19 objectively. (e.g. Does hydroxychloroquine work or doesn’t it?) And they want to tell us about climate change? In the last three years I have learned to have a great distrust of scientists, MSM, and the FBI.


16 posted on 05/27/2020 8:34:46 AM PDT by HarleyD
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