Because of our fallen human nature, people have a propensity to be subject to irrational and emotional fears about the climate and weather.  They tend to suppose that climate-doom is “just around the corner”.

Our fears of what could happen make us expect climate disaster.  This, of course, is not rational.  But we (i.e., people in general) irrationally fear pain and hardship.

Because of our fallen human nature, we incline away from living according to reason.  This causes in us a tendency toward climate foreboding which makes manifest in us (i.e., people generally) a lack of supernatural Faith and Trust in God.  We don’t live the infallible truth (that we should know) that God’s Will is always the best and wisest and that we are secure in God’s tender Providential care for us.  Our lives don’t manifest the certainty that we should have, namely, that all things, including tribulations, “work together unto the good, for those who love God”.  Romans, 8:28.

Instead, we fear that we will have to suffer from “something really bad” coming soon.  But God guides His friends to have confidence in Him and to have contentment, peace, and a freedom from such groundless fear.  This is part of the resilience of character that faithful and informed Catholics enjoy.[1]

Original Sin is the initial cause of unreasonable climate fear which is a tendency going all of the way back to Adam.  Sixteen hundred years ago, St. Augustine, Doctor of the Church, described this same foolish tendency of man to regard the weather with unreasonable foreboding.  Here is one way he describes it:

Not only did our elders complain about their days, their grandparents too complained about their [own] days.  People have never been pleased with the days they lived in.  But the days of the ancestors please their descendants, and they too were pleased with the days they hadn’t experienced – and that’s precisely why they thought them pleasant.  It’s what’s present that is sharply felt.  I don’t mean it comes nearer, but it touches the heart every day.  Practically every year when we feel the cold we say “It’s never been so cold.”  “It’s never been so hot.”  “It,” “it” – “it” is always in our minds.  But blessed is the man whom You instruct, Lord, to claim him from baleful days, while a pit is being dug for the sinner.[2]

At its root, St. Augustine is describing man’s tendency to suppose that things (such as the weather and climate) used to be very good and pleasant but now it has begun to become bad and painful.

Notice St. Augustine’s own serenity in his words.  That is how a reasonable man should be – and a man of Faith.  See how this great Doctor is not disturbed in the least by the childish outlook of the climate alarmists.

We greatly need “more St. Augustines” today!  We need strong, manly men!  We need men of (the true Catholic) Faith and reason!

Instead, we have “scaredy-cats” who look with foreboding at the weather.  Those men are all around us today.  But men such as this not only live now and lived in St. Augustine’s time, but throughout history.

One somewhat-older example is George Perkins Marsh who is called the “father of American ecology” but could more accurately be called “the father of American ecology alarmism”.  He was an American professor, politician, and diplomat, whose writings on ecology were exceedingly influential during the last 160 years.[3]  His principal climate-alarm book was sold all over the world and was translated into five languages.[4]

In the mid-1800s, he predicted doom and concocted alarmism that everything was about to become an ecological disaster.  Here is one way he sounded the (false) alarm:

The earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest inhabitant, and another era of equal human crime and human improvidence … would reduce it to such a condition of impoverished productiveness, of shattered surface, of climatic excess, as to threaten the depravation, barbarism, and perhaps even extinction of the species.[5]

Marsh blamed man because:

There are parts of Asia Minor, of Northern Africa, of Greece, and even of Alpine Europe, where the operation of causes set in action by man has brought the face of the earth to a desolation almost as complete as that of the moon ….[6]

It seems that the climate alarmists generally predict the annihilation of the human race (roughly) ten years into the future.  Some climate alarmist predictions are a little further into the future, some a little nearer.  For example, that globalist tool and dupe, Greta Thunberg, predicted (more than six years ago) that “climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.”[7]

In Marsh’s case, he sounded the (false) alarm roughly 160 years ago.  His warning about environmental doom and about the “extinction of the species” (viz., man) is as absurd today as it was then, to any thinking man.

Nonetheless, Marsh’s influence continues to the present and Vermont’s only national park is named after him (as well as the park being also named after the Rockefellers who, jointly with Marsh, are responsible for establishing the park).[8]

So we see that climate alarmism is not new.  Such irrational fears are as old as man.  Fallen man has always leaned toward exaggerating any unpleasant current weather, ready to suppose that the weather was better in the past and quick to project climate disaster into the near future.  Because of our fallen human nature, this makes us easy targets for the New World Order elites in their attempts to perpetrate a climate-scare fraud on society, to aid their global power grab.[9]

We have nothing to fear because God is in control of the world which He created as the best possible universe.[10]  God reminds us of His loving, Providential care for us in these words:

Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? and if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee.  Behold, I have graven thee in My Hands.

Isaiah, 49:15-16

Nor let us fear God’s enemies who use climate alarmism as a tool of gaining control of society.  St. Paul strengthened us against fearing God’s enemies, using these words:

If God be for us, who is against us?

Romans, 8:31.

Let us go forth in the strength of Christ!