Category Archives: Global Warming

The message of the Green Church

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Mankind has instigated a rebellion against God. God is righteous and, therefore, punishes sin and rewards goodness. He is also merciful, so he sent his Son to absorb the punishment that we deserve so that we don’t have to. We are still free to accept the punishment instead if we choose – à la Dawkins and Hitchens. The church’s job is to tell people this.

If true, it’s the single most important thing a person can be told. Anglicans believe that it’s true.

Well, maybe not: the Anglican Church of Canada would prefer to tell people about green churches instead.

The Anglican Church of Canada is taking steps towards a green revolution it hopes will sweep across 1,700 parishes nationwide.

The Partners in Mission and Eco-justice (PIMEJ) of General Synod will launch a national database this year to provide information on eco-friendly and energy-efficient Canadian Anglican parishes, including how they became green. It is hoped that sharing their stories will help other parishes to do the same.

“We want to celebrate and reward parishes [which] have accomplished reductions in greenhouse gas emissions,” said Ken Gray, a member of PIMEJ and the Canadian church representative to the Anglican Communion Environment Network………………..

The secularization of Canada has also meant that “the place of the church in economic and political discourse is probably quite different that what it was in the 1970s,”said Gray. “We need to be innovative in our justice advocacy…”

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past

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At least, that’s what Dr. David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia said in 2000.

However, the warming is so far manifesting itself more in winters which are less cold than in much hotter summers. According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.

“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.

Well, it didn’t snow in 2001, but after that in London:

January 2003, Snow brings chaos to London

February, 2007, Heavy snow forces school closures

October, 2008 London has first October snow in over 70 years

February, 2009: Heavy snow disrupts London travel

November 2010: UK snow: first flakes fall on London as Arctic weather spreads

December, 2010: Snow in UK, flights to London cancelled

January, 2011 Snow and sleet make for hazardous return to work

I understand that Dr. Viner has now taken up the more reliable vocation of tea-leaf reading.

How to sell Global Warming

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Apparently people are losing interest in global warming: it’s especially hard to keep up enthusiasm in the UK, which has had the coldest December for 120 years.

So, as the headline proclaims, Green Groups Try to Sex Up Climate Change: there’s nothing like a spot of scientific objectivity to get your point across. Thus we have pallid naked bodies strewn at random across what appears to be a large iceberg; at least we know the real reason why all the polar bears fled. You can see immediately how much more convincing this is than the usual boring old hockey stick graphs:

And then, for those who remain unswayed, we have Al Gore as Messiah:

The search for a new messiah: Just as Martin Luther King Jr. awakened the civil rights movement, the climate cause needs its own messiah, says environmental researcher Andreas Ernst from Kassel University. That messiah’s analogous message might run along the lines of, “I had a nightmare,” Ernst suggests. Al Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his film that jolted viewers out of their climate complacency, seemed to be successfully fulfilling this role for a while, but he has since all but disappeared from the public eye.

For die-hard sceptics unmoved by this barrage of dispassionate, empirical evidence, there is one last appeal from an organisation that has sexed things up like few others: the Anglican Church of Canada. The Rev. Stephen Drakeford in the Diocese of Toronto is preparing for a Green Lent (page 9):

The working group has been thinking and praying and planning since October about offering a green Lent. We are inviting people to fall in love with the earth again. When people fall in love, they do new (and sometimes crazy!) things: make sacrifices, change values, reorder their lives, and move across the country to be with another. What would happen if we really fell in love with God’s creation?

Naked bodies lying on an iceberg, Al Gore as Messiah, and falling in love with the earth during a green Lent. If that doesn’t convince you things are heating up, nothing will.

Global warming is making things colder

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When I had my annual Christmas chat with a friend in the UK, he mentioned that where he lives in South Wales the temperature has been hovering around -20 degrees C, colder than he ever remembers. Naturally, colder winters are due to global warming – that’s why it’s called global warming.

Scientific evidence for anthropogenic global warming isn’t as convincing as, say, the empirical evidence that the earth isn’t flat; if it were that simple, everyone but the most obdurate contrarian would believe it.

What is in little doubt, though, is that politics plays a significant part in global warming hysteria.

From here:

The Abiding Faith Of Warm-ongers

Got that? No matter what the weather, it’s all due to warming. This isn’t science; it’s a kind of faith. Scientists go along and even stifle dissent because, frankly, hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants are at stake. But for the believers, global warming is the god that failed.

Why do we continue to listen to warmists when they’re so wrong? Maybe it’s because their real agenda has nothing to do with climate change at all. Earlier this month, attendees of a global warming summit in Cancun, Mexico, concluded, with virtually no economic or real scientific support, that by 2020 rich nations need to transfer $100 billion a year to poor nations to help them “mitigate” the adverse impacts of warming.

This is what global warming is really about — wealth redistribution by people whose beliefs are basically socialist. It has little or nothing to do with climate. If it did, we might pay more attention to Piers Corbyn, a little-known British meteorologist and astrophysicist who has a knack for correctly predicting weather changes. Indeed, as London’s Mayor Boris Johnson recently noted, “He seems to get it right about 85% of the time.”

How does he do it? Unlike the U.N. and government forecasters, Corbyn pays close attention to solar cycles that, as it turns out, correlate very closely to changes in climate. Not only are we not headed for global warming, Corbyn says, we may be entering a “mini ice age” similar to the one that took place from 1450 A.D. to 1850 A.D.

We don’t know if Corbyn’s right or not. But given his record, he deserves as much attention as the warm-mongers whose goal is not to arrive at the truth but to reorganize society in a radical way.

Not even the weatherman believes in global warming

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From here:

The founder of The Weather Channel in the US has described the concept of global warming as ‘the greatest scam in history’ and accused global media of colluding with ‘environmental extremists’ to alarm the public.

“It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM,” John Coleman wrote in an article published on ICECAP, the International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project, which is known for challenging widely published theories on global warming.

The World Council of Churches, having largely abandoned the Gospel in favour of almost anything that is sufficiently outlandish, is one of the dwindling numbers of organisations that is sufficiently gullible to cling tenaciously to the fantasy of anthropomorphic global warming.

Perhaps the member churches of the WCC have succumbed to nostalgia and, no longer believing in hellfire and damnation in the next life, feel they must preach it in this one.

h/t my underpaid research assistant

The WCC, global warming and the goddess Ixchel

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The World Council of Churches was at the recent climate change conference in Cancun. With the perspicacity that we have come to expect from the WCC, they warn that, in spite of their best efforts, not only is time passing but appalling events are in the offing:

Time has run past. The problems and their challenges are still here. Scientific knowledge, supported by statistics and climatic models, as well as plain observations made by peasant, farmers, Indigenous peoples and coastal inhabitants has confirmed that the climate is changing because of human activities and that such change will prove disastrous for life in this planet, while we are still unable to take the unavoidable steps to detain the already tangible and oncoming appalling events.

As a small consolation for their lack of success in reversing the inexorable forward motion of the fourth dimension, during the opening ceremonies, the WCC would have been soothed by the ambience wafting from incantations to the Mayan jaguar goddess, Ixchel to whom virgins used to be sporadically sacrificed. I expect the WCC members felt safe enough.

More from here:

Who says that we live in a secular age? I’ll have you know that a recent U.N. climate change conference began with a prayer that the delegates would receive divine inspiration as they went about saving the planet.

Of course, the deity being prayed to was not the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ but, rather, a goddess who demanded regular sacrifices, including the occasional human one. Given what is going on at Cancun, this invocation seems oddly fitting.

The “invocation” was given by Christiana Figueres at the start of the conference in Cancun, Mexico. Perhaps inspired by the setting, Figueres invoked the Mayan goddess Ixchel.

Noting that Ixchel was the “goddess of reason, creativity and weaving,” Figueres “prayed” that the jaguar goddess would “inspire” the delegates.

This is the kind of self-parody that even the U.N.’s biggest critics couldn’t make up. Ixchel is often depicted as a “fierce hag” who, in her capriciousness, is just as likely to cause devastating floods as gentle rains that make crops grow.

Cancun Global warming hypocrisy

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From here:

The climate change summit in Cancun will generate 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide, its Mexican hosts admitted last night.

That means the £43million event will produce as much greenhouse gas as an average-sized African country would over the same two-week period.

The figure includes the carbon generated by flights, transport, hotels and food – and means the conference is polluting at the same rate as Somalia or Mali.

The Anglican Church of Canada is doing its bit to contribute to the farce.

Bishop John Chapman wants to revolt

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He managed to revolt me, at least.

Here is the gospel of global warming according to the ecclesiastical commissariat for hot air.

From here:

Bishop John Chapman of the Anglican diocese of Ottawa, spoke from
 a faith perspective to the over 50 people who attended the workshop,
 entitled, Science and Faith: Climate Change as a Moral Issue.
 “Through the cross, Christ redeemed the world, not just humanity, he said.
 “All has been redeemed.”

It is the theology of the cross that “embraces 
covenant rather than domination,” and one that requires a change in the way
 many Christians think, said Bishop Chapman. 

“Truly, we have been called to a revolution–and I’m thinking of the
 word in terms of how we react to
 one another, how we interact with the established norms that we have
 inherited generation after generation,” he said. “That’s revolutionary and there’s sacrifice when one engages in a revolution.”