The Vatican issued a new Apostolic Exhortation, given in the name of Pope Francis, entitled Laudate Deum. The document is addressed “To all people of good will on the climate crisis.” There is no “climate crisis.” It does not exist. It is not so. I (and many others) have spent years and years documenting an enormous number of arguments showing there is no “climate crisis” (
Earth's climate has been changing for about 5 billion years.
Stop trying to tell us that if we don't stop it from changing, we're all going to die next Tuesday.
Ten thousand years ago, what is now Chicago was covered by a mountain of ice 2 miles high.
Our Neolithic ancestors, wearing animal skins and using stone implements, managed to survive that AND the global warming that melted that mountain of ice.
I too am of the church and agree with you completely. This heretical preaching about Mother Earth and how we bad humans have destroyed her makes me sick. This fundamental lack of faith in God and his provenance, this evil belief that we should not go forth and prosper. This teaching of children that they have inherited a dying planet is of the devil. Bergoglio is not my pope. I believe that he is a false pope. The chair is empty or perhaps filled by someone in hiding (AB Vigano?). A small complaint, hysteria already refers to the uterus so hersteria is tautological and vaguely demeaning to women. I love my Lord and his Church and the BVM. We have a Mother and it is not earth. Ad Jesum per Mariam⚔️
Well, if they are going to stop the climate from changing, I'd like them to stop it from changing somewhere around mid to late June. I'd be fine with having that climate year-round.
Again, and predictably, the Church prostitutes itself to a “worthy cause”. “God is on our side in this {struggle, fight, battle, war}.” Black Lives Matter, take the shot, Slava Ukranie, LGQWERTY++--.
They should heed the advice of the man in whose name they worship and “render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and unto God that which is God’s”. Faith and wisdom are the soul of that discernment.
The thing about CO2 that these people miss is that CO2 levels have been declining for millions of years. They vary, but were once as high as 4000-7000 parts per million (ppm). Pre-industrial levels were down to 270ppm. This is happening because CO2 is used by certain microorganisms in the oceans to build their shells which are made of calcium carbonate.
Do you know what happens when CO2 levels reach 150ppm? Photosynthesis shuts down. All plant life dies, and with it all life on earth that requires oxygen to survive. By "polluting" the atmosphere with CO2, raising the levels to just over 410ppm right now, humans are unintentionally saving the earth. The biosphere is 30% greener - that is, it has more and healthier plant life - than a few decades ago. The optimal CO2 level may be around 1000ppm.
Is the earth warming because of the added CO2? WE DON'T KNOW. But even if it is, it isn't a crisis. The trend over the last 40 years, according to satellite data on wattsupwiththat.com, is a projected increase of 1.25C per century. This is not a crisis. A warmer earth is a healthier earth.
If these people were *really* worried about CO2 - wrong as that is - they would have spent the last four decades building hundreds of nuclear power plants, the cleanest and safest energy source we currently have. They didn't. Instead they shut them down, and want to run a 21st century civilization using Dutch windmills. Please. These are not sane, responsible people. They must be removed before they do something even stupider that could kill us all.
Oct 5, 2023·edited Oct 5, 2023Liked by William M Briggs
The only "climate crisis" we have is the one currently produced by the pope and the evil cabal who are destroying our planet and innocent people. They all must be removed from existence.
You know, the "lane" for a pope is pretty well-established and plenty wide enough: the spiritual guidance and well being of a huge group of people (practicing, and potential, Catholics; oh yes, and lapsed Catholics who might one day return).
He needs to stay in his lane. Nobody is interested in woke virtue signalling from the Pontiff--not on climate, Ukraine, vaxx . . . He is remarkably stupid on all other "lanes," which also calls into question his ability to be effective in his own, established lane. There is an odd new prayer all Catholics must mumble these days, the "prayer of transition" or some such nonsense. It reads like something promulgated by the WEF.
Probably the worst Pope in perhaps 1000 years (and that is saying something).
OK, I agree with you entirely when you say that earth's climate has always changed.
However, I would like to point out the source of Pope Francis' narrative.
Do not forget who appointed this man to be the #1 mouthpiece for the ROMAN Catholic Church. The same people who have always appointed Papal leaders - the Black Nobility of Rome and Venice, i.e., the descendants of the last Roman Senate. https://francesleader.substack.com/p/black-nobility-101
It would seem that the Club of Rome wrote that Laudate Deum and if you read other samples of their work you can recognise the narrative:
'Historical data come from models of temperature by proxy, which necessarily smooths values; whereas current values are much more variable because of the increased frequency of measurement.'
This is a good point and deserves some elaboration. 'Climate data' has only been gathered by dedicated thermometers for the last 80 years or so and almost all of that direct data is in the US. Even today's 'earth's temperature' is in many less inhabited places etc. based on a single thermometer for hundreds of square miles.
But almost all historical climate data is based on tree ring proxies. Which is to say that when a tree has a larger ring it is generally speaking a warmer year, which sort of slams the brakes on the whole climate crisis all on its own if you think about it but let's move past that for now, and when it grows less it is a cooler year. Briggs mentioned that tree ring proxies necessarily smooth the signal. This is because the local variations in tree growth for a billion non-global climate related reasons will provide essentially noise to the signal that the climate guys are trying to observe. The tree that got cut and is being observed may have had a good year even though it was globally a cooler year or alternately a bad year even though it was globally a warmer year. This is met by getting a lot of trees and a lot of fudge factors and trying to 'smooth' the signal, that is find some 'true global average yearly temperature', which is an appropriate thing for a tree nerd to do as a hobby and I support him fully, but it is not a way to get data accurate to a tenth of a degree celsius.
Is there anybody reading (or writing) this Substack who remembers the name of the bishop in England who knew for certain on what day of the week and what date and year the creation told in the book of Genesis took place? If I am not mistaken he knew even the exact hour, something like 4:30 pm.
Earth is about 5 billion years old.
Earth's climate has been changing for about 5 billion years.
Stop trying to tell us that if we don't stop it from changing, we're all going to die next Tuesday.
Ten thousand years ago, what is now Chicago was covered by a mountain of ice 2 miles high.
Our Neolithic ancestors, wearing animal skins and using stone implements, managed to survive that AND the global warming that melted that mountain of ice.
We'll be fine. Calm down.
I too am of the church and agree with you completely. This heretical preaching about Mother Earth and how we bad humans have destroyed her makes me sick. This fundamental lack of faith in God and his provenance, this evil belief that we should not go forth and prosper. This teaching of children that they have inherited a dying planet is of the devil. Bergoglio is not my pope. I believe that he is a false pope. The chair is empty or perhaps filled by someone in hiding (AB Vigano?). A small complaint, hysteria already refers to the uterus so hersteria is tautological and vaguely demeaning to women. I love my Lord and his Church and the BVM. We have a Mother and it is not earth. Ad Jesum per Mariam⚔️
Will no one rid us of this meddlesome priest?
What difference would it make?
They have truckloads waiting in the wings.
Pope In Name Only (PINO) Frankie is a not so tasty wine.
Well, if they are going to stop the climate from changing, I'd like them to stop it from changing somewhere around mid to late June. I'd be fine with having that climate year-round.
Again, and predictably, the Church prostitutes itself to a “worthy cause”. “God is on our side in this {struggle, fight, battle, war}.” Black Lives Matter, take the shot, Slava Ukranie, LGQWERTY++--.
They should heed the advice of the man in whose name they worship and “render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and unto God that which is God’s”. Faith and wisdom are the soul of that discernment.
Predictably, the Roman pope will side with the radicals in the EU, American clerics will be labeled as heretics, and the Catholic church will split.
Good call. Maybe more than split — fracture.
The thing about CO2 that these people miss is that CO2 levels have been declining for millions of years. They vary, but were once as high as 4000-7000 parts per million (ppm). Pre-industrial levels were down to 270ppm. This is happening because CO2 is used by certain microorganisms in the oceans to build their shells which are made of calcium carbonate.
Do you know what happens when CO2 levels reach 150ppm? Photosynthesis shuts down. All plant life dies, and with it all life on earth that requires oxygen to survive. By "polluting" the atmosphere with CO2, raising the levels to just over 410ppm right now, humans are unintentionally saving the earth. The biosphere is 30% greener - that is, it has more and healthier plant life - than a few decades ago. The optimal CO2 level may be around 1000ppm.
Is the earth warming because of the added CO2? WE DON'T KNOW. But even if it is, it isn't a crisis. The trend over the last 40 years, according to satellite data on wattsupwiththat.com, is a projected increase of 1.25C per century. This is not a crisis. A warmer earth is a healthier earth.
If these people were *really* worried about CO2 - wrong as that is - they would have spent the last four decades building hundreds of nuclear power plants, the cleanest and safest energy source we currently have. They didn't. Instead they shut them down, and want to run a 21st century civilization using Dutch windmills. Please. These are not sane, responsible people. They must be removed before they do something even stupider that could kill us all.
I like carbon. It makes my steaks taste good.
I guess all roads lead to Rome
The only "climate crisis" we have is the one currently produced by the pope and the evil cabal who are destroying our planet and innocent people. They all must be removed from existence.
You know, the "lane" for a pope is pretty well-established and plenty wide enough: the spiritual guidance and well being of a huge group of people (practicing, and potential, Catholics; oh yes, and lapsed Catholics who might one day return).
He needs to stay in his lane. Nobody is interested in woke virtue signalling from the Pontiff--not on climate, Ukraine, vaxx . . . He is remarkably stupid on all other "lanes," which also calls into question his ability to be effective in his own, established lane. There is an odd new prayer all Catholics must mumble these days, the "prayer of transition" or some such nonsense. It reads like something promulgated by the WEF.
Probably the worst Pope in perhaps 1000 years (and that is saying something).
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/10/europe/catholic-church-most-controversial-popes/index.html
OK, I agree with you entirely when you say that earth's climate has always changed.
However, I would like to point out the source of Pope Francis' narrative.
Do not forget who appointed this man to be the #1 mouthpiece for the ROMAN Catholic Church. The same people who have always appointed Papal leaders - the Black Nobility of Rome and Venice, i.e., the descendants of the last Roman Senate. https://francesleader.substack.com/p/black-nobility-101
It would seem that the Club of Rome wrote that Laudate Deum and if you read other samples of their work you can recognise the narrative:
https://francesleader.substack.com/p/the-club-of-rome
…"hersteria"?? Are you aware of the derivation of "hysteria"? It's already fundamentally feminine. Why double-feminize it?
Yes, we've discussed this many time. For the same reason they write 'herstory'.
As long as no one starts talking about "sheeple", I can pretend 'herstory' is a typo.
I haaaaate that word also!!
'Historical data come from models of temperature by proxy, which necessarily smooths values; whereas current values are much more variable because of the increased frequency of measurement.'
This is a good point and deserves some elaboration. 'Climate data' has only been gathered by dedicated thermometers for the last 80 years or so and almost all of that direct data is in the US. Even today's 'earth's temperature' is in many less inhabited places etc. based on a single thermometer for hundreds of square miles.
But almost all historical climate data is based on tree ring proxies. Which is to say that when a tree has a larger ring it is generally speaking a warmer year, which sort of slams the brakes on the whole climate crisis all on its own if you think about it but let's move past that for now, and when it grows less it is a cooler year. Briggs mentioned that tree ring proxies necessarily smooth the signal. This is because the local variations in tree growth for a billion non-global climate related reasons will provide essentially noise to the signal that the climate guys are trying to observe. The tree that got cut and is being observed may have had a good year even though it was globally a cooler year or alternately a bad year even though it was globally a warmer year. This is met by getting a lot of trees and a lot of fudge factors and trying to 'smooth' the signal, that is find some 'true global average yearly temperature', which is an appropriate thing for a tree nerd to do as a hobby and I support him fully, but it is not a way to get data accurate to a tenth of a degree celsius.
During the pandemic I got disappointed completely with the Catholic Church. But also with the members. So many cowards!
Is there anybody reading (or writing) this Substack who remembers the name of the bishop in England who knew for certain on what day of the week and what date and year the creation told in the book of Genesis took place? If I am not mistaken he knew even the exact hour, something like 4:30 pm.
I would so much like to look the guy up again.
James Ussher.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_chronology
Thanks ever so much. I promise I won't forget his name again.
Theology reads like the History of the Gradual Loss of the Poetic Faculty in Western Man.
One might as well say: of the loss of the soul. Remember King Richard:
"My brain I'll prove the female to my soul / My soul the father ...".
Shakespeare said that for a reason.