Essay by Eric Worrall
According to Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny, Hurricane Ian which recently struck Florida shows that people should stop listening to populist politicians and climate skeptics.
October 5, 2022 12:01 AM GMT+10
Extreme hurricanes show time of climate change denial is over, Vatican says
VATICAN CITY, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Recent extreme weather events, such as the hurricane that devastated parts of Florida, show that the time for climate change denial and scepticism is over, a senior Vatican official said on Tuesday.
Cardinal Michael Czerny, a Canadian who heads the Vatican’s development office, made his comments at a news conference presenting “The Letter,” a new film on the climate crisis by two-time Emmy award winner Nicolas Brown.
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“The time is over for speculation, for skepticism and denial, for irresponsible populism,” Czerny said.
“Apocalyptic floods, mega droughts, disastrous heatwaves, and catastrophic cyclones and hurricanes have become the new normal in recent years; they continue today; tomorrow, they will get worse,” he said.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/extreme-hurricanes-show-time-climate-change-denial-is-over-vatican-2022-10-04/
Exodus 23:1 tells us: “You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.”
As WUWT has repeated detailed, there is no trend in Florida hurricane landfalls. Hurricanes worldwide are not getting worse (see the graph at the top of the page, or click here for more information). Likewise there is no significant global trend in heatwave or other extreme event intensity.
In my opinion Cardinal Czerny should spend more time consulting his bible, and do some basic research, before he makes any further sensationalist claims about climate change.
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So, Your Grace, is it a fairy that it rained for 40 days and forty nights and Noah didn’t, then, build an ark against the mighty worldwide flood (the, you know, one of “Biblical proportions”). Yet you take as gospel the modern NOAA’s word a bigger one is coming to drown out billions living on the seashore.
And did the end of the glacial period not result in sea level rise of 400 ft? And you are agonizing over 9 inches by 2100?
What about the 7 years of drought in Egypt during which the Israelites were led out of Egypt by Moses to the Promised Land. Or the multidecadal droughts affecting Western North America over 3 millennia. And your worried about a dry spell in Texas.
Natural variability did all that without any help from the few million humans. Get a grip Cardinal.
Go back to original sources. The Noah’s Ark story was found on an early Babylonian tablet detailing what would be necessary for a settlement to survive a (fairly regular) flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Add to that the story about Joseph preparing for a 7 year cyclical weather system of drought/dearth and abundance, and the Bible shows that weather events have been with us since time immemorial.
The good Cardinal’s meteorological/climate knowledge is right up there with that of the Pope.
Apocalyptic!
Try telling that to Noah
In his encyclical, the Pope stated that the fruits of the earth were a gift from God and should be shared by everyone. Now, he and some of his Cardinals want the fruits of the earth to be withheld from all mankind if they contain carbon. So which is it? Should what is produced from the earth be shared with all, or should it be banned entirely? Coal, oil, and natural gas have done a great good for civilization. They have helped draw billions out of poverty. The only evidence for harm comes from computer models. So are we to thank God for his gifts from the earth and use them for the good of mankind? Or are we to trust in the arm of flesh and believe that some gifts from God are evil and should be shunned. Apparently the Vatican believes the latter. Someday, they will have some splain’n to do.
There is something inevitable about a senior religious ‘believer’ representing the views of the Climate Alarm religion.
Who needs facts and data when you can rely on religion and ‘belief’ for your argument to be given prominence…
In my opinion Cardinal Czerny should spend more time consulting his bible, and do some basic research, before he makes any further sensationalist claims about climate change.
Wrong! Cardinal Czerny should get back to his day job and concentrate on spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ, not the Gospel of Climate Alarmism. Once the good Cardinal has fixed the problems of declining Mass attendance and a lack of vocations to the priesthood in Canada, then maybe he might turn his attention to other matters.
Faith is to religion as facts are to science, it seems a possible analogy would be mixing oil and water.
Don’t you know? The cardinal has a direct line to the good Lord Himself. He thinks.
All clergy are delusional. Out of necessity.
I doubt that the cardinal is aware that the CO2 level in 1960 was 3/100ths of one percent of the atmosphere and had grown to 4/100ths of one percent of the atmosphere by 2020, a growth of 1/100th of one percent in sixty years. To promote the idea that such a level of CO2 is causing the Earth’s air temperature and climate to change is a disservice to the public.
Can someone tell me what was the exact category Ian was when it near Ft. Meyers? The media kept reporting that Ian had sustained windspeeds of 150+ MPH. But many of the wind speeds reported at several weather station sites in the area mostly reported wind gusts in the mid 120’s. I saw one station report a 130 MPH gust, and most of the other reports were in the high teens or low 120’s for wind gusts (not sustained windspeed). That would make Ian a category 3 maybe? Someone should know the correct answer.
That’s what I’ve been waiting for. Ever since I read about the Catholic Church’s long history of awesome scientific calls on astronomy and physics, I’ve been wondering what they had to say about all this warming stuff. Are they sure it’s not just that the Earth is experiencing the effects of all of us moving a little closer to Hell? It’s just below ground you know!
Minions of the Dark are building upon the surface.
Thus always sayth the witch doctor.
I always look to an employee of a child rape cult for my scientific information…
Disinformation. The cardinal is lying.