Catholic Candle note: The globalists are seeking to grab power by frightening gullible people that there is a climate emergency that requires the globalists to save us by wielding totalitarian power for our own good.  Read this article: The Baseless Climate-Change Scare aims to usher in the New World Order, found here:   https://catholiccandle.org/2019/12/22/the-baseless-climate-change/

These globalists falsify and deceptively use climate data as part of their scheme to alarm people with a supposed global-warming emergency.  In roughly the 1970s, the globalists tried (and largely succeeded) in alarming people by the scare of global cooling and the (supposed) coming of a “new ice age”.  https://catholiccandle.org/2022/10/25/recalling-a-1970s-climate-change-hoax/

The globalists use cyclical climate trends to alarm the people, as if the climate cycle was going to continue without end in the same direction.  In an earlier article, we examined the fact that the climate is naturally cyclical.  There are daily cycles, yearly cycles, decades-long cycles, and centuries-long cycles.  Read this article: Climate Alarmists Abuse Data from Natural Weather Cycles: https://catholiccandle.org/2023/02/24/climate-alarmists-abuse-data-from-natural-weather-cycles/

Here are further articles on the ongoing climate scare hoax:

➢  Glacier-Melting Alarmism: https://catholiccandle.org/2024/01/23/glacier-melting-alarmism/

 

➢  Climate Fearmongers Always Warn that Doom is Almost Here: https://catholiccandle.org/2024/01/10/greta-thunberg-and-the-doom-coming-soon-scam/

➢  The “Deadly Heat” Alarmism: https://catholiccandle.org/2023/08/24/the-deadly-heat-alarmism/

➢  False Claims that Global Warming Is Intensifying Hurricanes, Part 1: https://catholiccandle.org/2023/04/10/the-false-claim-that-global-warming-causes-hurricanes-to-be-more-severe/

➢  False Claims that Global Warming Is Intensifying Hurricanes, Part 2: https://catholiccandle.org/2023/07/15/the-false-claim-that-global-warming-causes-hurricanes-to-be-more-severe-part-2/

Reminder and A Little Further Evidence Showing That the Climate Scare is Mere Fear-Mongering

In some places in the Northern Hemisphere, we are now experiencing a comparatively warm summer (so far).  While experiencing this weather, it would be easy – because it would be in accord with fallen human nature – to suppose that our climate is heading toward frying us to a crisp.  But leaping to this conclusion fails to take into account three things:

1.    That the climate goes in cycles.  There are daily cycles, annual cycles, decades-long cycles, and centuries-long cycles.[1]  These cycles reverse themselves and every warming trend is followed by a cooling trend.

2.    Divine Providence takes such tender care of us.  We have nothing to fear because God is in control and the world which He created is the best possible universe.[2]  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.

3.    The climate scare is based on emotion, not reason.  Because of the wounds of Original Sin, fallen man is prone to overreact to pain and to fear.  Fallen man does not judge well because his mind is easily moved away from sound judgment and rational analysis by the impetus of sense and passion.  He is prone to suppose what he is sensing now is somehow “bigger” than past events because the current sensations are more immediate and “tangible”. 

We see this same conclusion – driven by pain and fear – in St. Augustine’s time.  Sixteen hundred years ago, St. Augustine, Doctor of the Church, described this same foolish tendency of (fallen) man to leap to assumptions about 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, O Lord, to claim him from baleful days, while a pit is being dug for the sinner.[3]

At its root, St. Augustine is describing fallen 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 down through the centuries.

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

Instead, we have “scaredy-cats” who look with foreboding at the climate.  Truly, they fit the proverb that a coward dies a thousand deaths, a brave man just one.

Such wimpy men are stampeded into fear by absurd predictions made by foolish dupes (and leftist tools) like Greta Thunberg, who predicted that the extinction of humanity would occur before now.  Here is one way that she foolishly and  confidently predicted her doomsday scenario seven years ago, viz., that all mankind would dead two years ago:

Those climate cowards are all around us today.  But rash men such as these not only live now but also lived in St. Augustine’s time, and, in fact, throughout history.

Which brings us to an interesting map we wanted to share with you, which shows the record high temperature for each state.

This map compiles U.S. government (NOAA) data taken from a NOAA chart found here: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/scec/records

Despite the rash alarmists’ claim that our climate is getting continually hotter, the data on this map shows that 36 of the 50 state record highs were set more than five decades ago. Twenty-three states’ record high temperatures occurred during the 1930s, when annual human CO² emissions were less than one-eighth of today’s emissions.  Despite leftist/mainstream media continually claiming that climate disaster is coming soon, only 6 state high temperature records have occurred in the 25 years (since the year 2000).

This map and climate data remind us to ignore those “chicken littles” who are constantly insisting that climate disaster is only five or ten years away.