"He Who Controls the Weather Will Control the World." Lyndon Johnson, 1962 speech

Control the weather? Really? It sounds like the plot of a futuristic novel, but the fact is that the future is now. Mad scientists are among us. Geoengineering is a reality. And man playing God is likely causing some of the devastating weather situations around the world, not to mention undermining our health. 

Did You Hear about the "Great Christmas Blizzard?" Chicken Little Attributes it to Global Warming!

The "Great Blizzard of 1888"
ground traffic to a standstill in NYC.

Global warming really is alarming. All these extreme weather events that we've never seen before!

Yeah, right!

The unexpected blizzard of the headline happened after Christmas. It was an "extratropical cyclone blizzard winter story" and piled on a record snowfall in the northeast. New York City saw over 26 inches of snow in fewer than 24 hours when the white stuff fell at a rate of three inches an hour.  Seventy-seven people died, public transportation ground to a stop. Buses and cars were abandoned in the streets making them nearly impassable for emergency vehicles. Telephone and electric service was spotty due to downed power and phone lines.

A Letter to Greta from Friends of Science: THERE IS NO CLIMATE EMERGENCY!

It's not about a climate emergency; it's about money and power. CO2 is plant food! Did you know that greenhouses use machines to increase the CO2 level in their grow rooms to increase plant growth?

Another Storm, Another Round of Hysteria...

 I will take away the stony heart
 out of your flesh, and
 I will give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:26

...about Global Warming Climate Change. Folks, don't listen to the hysterics. It's Nature, not Man! And it's nothing new.

I do agree with the hysterical Chicken Littles in one respect, however. Yes, these storms are a warning, but not about global warming or climate change. They warn us that we need to change our hearts.

Just as Noah's building project was commissioned because of sin and Jonah's mission was a warning to repent and the Star of Bethlehem announced God's intervention in human history, and Jesus performed signs and wonders -- these attention-grabbing events are for our good. "Hey, people, pay attention. I'm God and you're not! Get with the program."

Actually, every single glory of nature should get our attention:

Like Father Like Sons! No Wonder the Church is in Such a Mess!

Get out the extra strength Excedrin. 

We all know the pope is a big believer in man-made global warming, obviously a top priority among his moral concerns since it was the subject of his first encyclical, Laudato Si. Unlike many scientists, the pope has no reservations about the accuracy of the climate change crowd (who incidentally make lots of money doing the Chicken Little dance). Unfortunately, many of the pope's spiritual sons in the U.S. have jumped on the bandwagon.

U.S. Bishops Tell Secretary of State their Top Foreign Policy Concern is Global Warming:

Thoughts on the Upcoming Encyclical on the Envioronment

I echo Fr. Tom Collins' thoughts below. If you aren't praying about the upcoming encyclical yet, start now! We need to think about man's inner ecology. It's certainly as important as the global ecology.

I have read a report that the new encyclical on the environment is just under 200 pages! I just pray that it has at least as much on the real danger of everlasting "warming" being promoted by the Culture of Desecration and Death as it does on the alleged dangers of terrestrial warming. Our modern day Chicken Little's are not crying, "The sky is falling!", but rather, "The earth is warming!" In spite of actual data that shows otherwise, they contend that the data should not be reported, but rather carefully adjusted by computer programs to indicate that humanity is indeed the earth's greatest enemy. Some are even getting so bold as to openly declare that cleansing the "disease" of humanity from the earth's biosphere will have to include the development of policies and practices to promote or benignly neglect the evil consequences of contraception, abortion, sterilization, infanticide, homosexuality, plagues, famines, euthanasia, war and ethnic cleansing. I just pray that the new encyclical will be decisively Christocentric, and not just "lead from the rear" with a new "Me too" spirituality, which struggles to catch up with the agenda and the "wisdom" of the secular progressives.

In Christ,

Fr. Tom

They Put Men on the Moon and They Doubt Man-made Global Climate Change!

Have you uncritically accepted "Chicken Little's" theory of man-made climate change? If yes, you need to check the data. A group of scientists retired from NASA who were involved in the Apollo program have banded together to examine the data. Read that again -- "examine the data"-- not the opinions, not the flawed computer models, but the data.

According to them (and these are scientists who put men on the moon), there is no convincing evidence that the planet is at a crucial point and that we need to STOP GLOBAL WARMING OR DIE!!!!! (Ominous music plays in the background.) According to the group, which has been studying the data since 2012:

Is the Pope Really an Expert on "Climate Change?"

The Pope and Al Gore Seem to be on the Same Page

It used to be called global warming until the data became so inconsistent with a warming climate that they had to regroup. So now it has been rechristened "climate change," but the data still doesn't support it. What's supporting environmentalism is political correctness, money (It's all about redistributing income.), and "green is the new red."

Former Czech President, Vaclav Klaus, an economist, said this in 2011:

global warming is a religion conceived to suppress human freedom....It is used to justify an enormous scope for government intervention vis-a-vis the markets and personal freedom.

Amen! Maybe the pope should talk to Klaus before paying allegiance to the church of environmentalism!

Chicken Little, "You're Fired!" Climate Change is a Myth.

Climate change PROVED to be 'nothing but a lie', claims top meteorologist

All the predictions of the climate gloom and doomers have failed. They said the ice cap was melting; it's increasing. They said the oceans would rise and coasts would be under water -- WRONG! They said we'd have more and worse storms -- not true.

So exactly why do so many people believe this nonsense? Could it be our education system is working as John Dewey desired -- to make little mindless robots who are easily manipulated by government? 

Teach your children to be critical thinkers!

Since When Are the Catholic Hierarchy Experts on "Climate Change?"

I'm shaking my head over this latest nonsense from a high level cleric!

Holy See: moral imperative to act in face of climate change

Here's Cardinal Parolin's quote from the article:

“The scientific consensus is rather consistent and it is that, since the second half of the last century, warming of the climate system is unequivocal,” he continued. “It is a very serious problem which, as I said, has grave consequences for the most vulnerable sectors of society and, clearly, for future generations.” 

“Numerous scientific studies, moreover,

Is Global Warming Responsible for All the Cold Weather?

Atlanta breaks a century-old temperature record Thursday

Record Lows Blanket Midwest

Unseasonably Cool in D.C.

The fact is that the #1 influence on the weather is the sun. A second big impact comes from volcanoes. Neither of those climate influencers has anything to do with man. But no matter what happens with the weather, those who have lots to gain from hysteria will scream, "The sky is falling, the sky is falling."

This Global "Warming" is Messing with our Bee Plans!

What a spring! We're waiting to get two honeybee nucleus colonies, but it's been too cold and windy for the bees to fly and if they can't fly the queen can't lay because there's no food and pollen to feed the new brood. First our local supplier said he would have our colonies in late March. Then he shrugged and said April. Now he says he won't have any before May. Good grief, is it time to move south? The problem is that if the bees can't get well established before July or thereabouts, they can't make it through the winter.

So give us a little of that famous "global warming." It's cold again today and if it's as windy as the past few days, the bees won't be flying... again. But, I forgot, it's not "global warming" anymore since we haven't had any of that for the past twenty years or so. Now it's "climate change" so the doomsayers can get exciting and wring their hands no matter what happens to the weather. After all, you only get grant money when the sky is falling. As for the honeybees....they'd appreciate a little global warming about now. Me too!

This is Global Warming?

We're having snow flurries here in the valley this morning. And we had a five-inch snowfall in October. Gosh, it makes me grateful for manmade global warming. Can you imagine what it would be like if we were having global cooling? Oh...I forgot. The new term is "climate change."

Are you fasting from plastic bags and incandescent lightbulbs for Lent?

Frankly, I never ate them in the first place.

But really, an article published by Catholic News Service (and printed in the Arlington Catholic Herald to their shame) actually has the gall to suggest that Lent isn't "just about giving up chocolate or ice cream for 40 days." (Hear the superior tone?) No, what it's really about, according to the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change (CCCC) is sacrificing for the environment. Trees are people too, after all. In fact the Executive Director of CCCC, Dan Misleh, is sending out "Catholic climate ambassadors" this spring to urge folks to use cloth shopping bags instead of paper, replace incandescent light bulbs with fluorescent bulbs, give up disposable paper products, and use refillable coffee mugs. Yes indeed, this is what Lent is really all about; the way to Christian holiness is recycling and reducing your carbon footprint.

I visited the CCCC website, another misguided project of the USCCB launched in 2006. It begins with the unreserved acceptance of manmade global warming propaganda (now referred to as climate change). In a position paper describing CCCC I found this interesting and laughable statement:

Because we are not experts on climate change and its consequences, we rely on a scientific consensus (best represented by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change) to guide our activities. Read the document here...

Perhaps CCCC hasn't heard about all the scandals associated with the IPCC including manipulating data, maligning scientists whose research conflicts with their desired results and denying them access to peer reviewed journals, lying about glacier melt. Oh, and then there are the 1000s of emails that showed the deliberate fraud by this group promoting what meteorologist and founder of the weather channel, John Coleman, calls "the greatest scam in history." Yup, these are the "scientists" whose results CCCC relies on. Not particularly convincing I'd say.

What made me especially angry about the bishops' site was the manipulative video using a child's voice to decry the heavy carbon footprint of the rich countries that are stepping on the poor all over the world. You can almost envision yourself squashing the poor like bugs every time you turn on the hot water, drive your car, heat your home, etc. You are to blame for all those sad faces because of your heavy and deep carbon footprint. Just imagine how guilty the parents of large families should feel!

The video speaks an outright lie when it quotes Cardinal Martino saying:

There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming over the last fifty years is attributed to human activities.

Now I'm not accusing the Cardinal of lying. No doubt he is buying the fraudulent data of the IPCC.  And considering that he spent about 20 years as papal nuncio at the U.N., he may have a hard time distinguishing between liars and truth tellers; but the fact is there is not only no "new and stronger evidence" for man-made global warming, there is evidence we are moving into a period of cooling and that fluctuations are a normal part of climate measured over time. The "scientists" at the IPCC haven't come up with a good explanation for the Medieval warming period which can hardly be attributed to the use of fossil fuels, so they conveniently ignore it along with any other facts that dispute their bogus claims.

Having said all this, Catholics ought to live a simpler lifestyle where we voluntarily use less so we can contribute more to the poor. Underline that world "voluntarily." The Dives and Lazarus story says it all. We have a moral obligation to care about the poor and share what we have. That's what charity is all about and we have a special obligation during Lent. However, charity, to be charity, must ALWAYS be voluntary. Someone who steals from Peter to give to Paul is not charitable; he's a thief.

And there are plenty of those thieves listed on CCCCs website. When you read their position paper linked above, note their Catholic partners on the left. Many of them are funded big-time by "government" money especially Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and Catholic Charities (CC). (I.e., The only money the government has is what it takes from taxpayers and that is supposed to be used for limited and specific purposes.) In fact both CRS and CC are hardly recognizable as Catholic groups because they water down their Catholic identity to protect the government bucks stolen from the taxpayer. So CRS and CC are part of the government conspiracy to forcibly redistribute income which is NOT CHARITY. It's also not very efficient since massive amounts of money go to the bureaucracy and only small amounts trickle down to the poor. And sometimes what actually gets to the poor isn't food and medicine; it's birth control pills, condoms, and suction machines.

Let's look at a few other of CCCC's partners. The Catholic Hospital Association is notorious particularly in view of the betrayal on Obamacare by Sr. Carol Keehan who makes nearly $900,000 in annual salary and can afford a much heavier footprint than most of us. Then there are the dissident nuns of the Leadership Conference of Catholic Women (LCCW) who never met a liberal issue (including abortion) that their members couldn't support. The Franciscan Action Network has endorsed the union thugs in Wisconsin. The Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development is the USCCB office that runs the tainted Catholic Campaign for Human Development and employs staff with links to pro-abortion democrats. It just goes on and on and on. This is the social justice money machine.

I hope you are as angry as I am about the video below. What really hurts the poor is corrupt governments, biofuels which turn food crops into ethanol (promoted big-time by Al Gore and his environmental minions until it became clear it was causing massive rises in food prices), foreign aid linked to murdering and sterilizing the poor, and other complicated issues. The nonsense about global warming and fossil fuels killing the poor is nothing but propaganda. And just think, if you're a Catholic you paid for this idiotic video, one more reason to boycott the bishops' collections.

Instead of putting money in that rice bowl this Lent for the very problematic CRS, give to a charity that really serves the poor and doesn't take government money to do it. Medical Missionaries is one of my favorites and we'll be filling our alms jar this Lent for them. And if you feel guilty after watching the video, go visit a nursing home. Remember what Mother Teresa said, "The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty." Many lonely and forgotten people are waiting to hear your footsteps in the hall even if you arrived in a gas-guzzling SUV.

Winter Weather and Global Warming

The Worst Part of Global Warming? Scaring the Children!

Using children to advance a shaky hypothesis is absolutely despicable but it's happening. In this John Stossel video, the kids have clearly been brainwashed to think ONE POLITICALLY CORRECT THOUGHT - that man-made global warming is a fact. It isn't. But that doesn't keep the liberal left, who use global warming to amass power and money, from using children to advance their goals. This is the same liberal left that favors abortion on demand. One can only come to the conclusion that liberalism is a philosophy that hates children - and humanity in general. Children are cogs in the liberal ad machine to tug at the heart strings when it's useful. They are the "Obama kids" and little global warming fanatics. We certainly need to save the world, but not from man-made global warming, but sin which is the root of all unhappiness.

Be good stewards of the earth, but don't let your children become little global warming robots for the liberal left spouting nonsense as fact. It's the same nonsense that promotes Darwinian evolution as fact. These non-scientists simply declare that the "debate is over." It's anything but.





This last film is the most terrifying scenario. It was shown at the opening of the Copenhagen conference which took place in the midst of a huge snowstorm. The conference followed the Climategate exposure which shows the lengths to which the global warming scaremongers will go to perpetrate their fraud. It's all about money and power. Al Gore, who gives almost nothing to charity, is reaping millions off global warming alarmism.

Please Send Some Global Warming This Way

About now I'm longing for the Medieval warm period which was considerably warmer than today despite the fact that the carbon footprint of man was like Friday's footprints in the sand in Robinson Crusoe. In fact, Greenland got its name because the glacial land mass was filled with lush green meadows where Norsemen settled and farmed.

Here in Virginia I'm longing for a little global warming. We are due for a major storm tonight that may give us the biggest snowfall ever in December. Brrr. And next week the temps are supposed to be down in the teens for a frigid cold snap.

And then there's the big snowstorm in Copenhagen during the Chicken Little conference. God's sense of humor is so delightful! Oh, and has anyone noticed that all they're talking about is money? That is, after all, what the global warming scam is all about.

In the meantime, I guess we'll just have to put on more layers here and stock up on all the major necessities of life: like toilet paper and hot chocolate. It looks to be a long, cold winter.

Global Warming: Is it Really About Population Control?

Even before Climategate, many conservatives knew there was more to the global warming scam than money. It's about control, stupid. Hey, the polar ice caps are melting and mankind is killing the planet. We gotta get those filthy little polluters before birth. Voluntary abortion isn't killing off enough of them though, so it's time for the world to adopt the Chinese final solution -- a mandatory one-child policy vigorously enforced by abortion and sterilization.

In her draconian opinion column in the Financial Post, Diane Francis, who has two children, called for world implementation of China's one-child policy so we can save the world before it's too late. Her ideas fit nicely with the U.N. de-population program. Robert Muller, a 40-year employee at the U.N. boasted at the Global Citizenship 2000 Youth Congress that the U.N. had "prevented the birth of 2 billion, 200 million people." He didn't boast about the coercion, manipulation, and violation of human rights (especially those of poor third-world nations) used to achieve this goal.

In the opinion of the population utopians the "right" number of humans for the earth is 100 to 500 million. In a world of six billion that means they want to eliminate most of the earth's population. There ain't no way to do that short of mass extermination!

It's nothing new, of course. Thomas Malthus, an 18th century Chicken Little, was trying to make a case for overpopulation based on the inability of the earth to feed its population 300 years ago. He predicted all kinds of disasters to justify state control over the individual. His prophecies were bunk! As were those of bug scientist, Paul Ehrlich, who in the 1960s published The Population Bomb with a photo of a sweet baby inside a lit time bomb. He also predicted mass starvation and other apocalyptic events. He fizzled as well, but it hasn't prevented him from continuing to wring his hands and jump on the eco-disaster bandwagon.

And now we have the climategate scam. Global warming is a manufactured crisis geared to get the world on board to accept all kinds of draconian approaches to "save the planet." It is all about empowering those who want to control mankind in one way or another. Imagine the whole world as China where the population police are at the door dragging mothers to abortion mills and forced sterilization clinics. It is particularly ironic that this is all happening at the same time the world is facing a demographic winter.

I hope most people won't fall for all this alarmism. It's not about a real threat to the planet, it's about love of power and money. Many of the elites in our culture would be delighted to eliminate the hoi poloi of the world who are messing up their favorite vacation spots (as long as there are enought to serve them).

Of course, the elite expect to remain at the top running things. (You don't think George Soros, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Ted Turner, Bill Gates, Oprah, and all the other rich and powerful of the planet expect to be among those considered excess population do you?) The population control gang may be in for a surprise if they ever actually achieve the ends they're working toward. The devil has a way of turning against his useful dupes. Read The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe or Gounod's opera, Faust. Playing God is a dangerous proposition.

For opinions countering Diane Francis click on the articles below.

One Child Policy Outrage after Copenhagen

The Re-Birth of Population Control

Climategate: When Scientists Are Frauds!

The thousands of emails leaked from the hacked Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University show exactly how bogus the global warming hoax is.

What are some of the revelations?

1) There is a small cadre of scientists who work together to promote a single view about global warming based on manipulation and falsification of the data. They Control the Hadley Center which controls the global data on temperature and they control the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)whose data they have also manipulated. When the data can't be trusted the results can't be trusted either.

2) Orchestration of a controlled, closed system with attacks on individual scientists and journals. If an editor requires independent names to review an article the incestuous group of scientists provide each other's names to orchestrate and control publication of data and blacklist those scientists who question the politically correct view.

3) Falsification of the past:

changing the data, altering the temperature record, deleting data - Is this not a criminal conspiracy in view of the impact on global climate meetings?

"We must get rid of the Medieval warming period." Jonathan Overpeck (The Medieval warm period is the warmest time in history, but that conflicts with the the desire to present man-made global warming. Obviously man-made carbon emissions during the middle ages were limited so the period is an embarrassment to global warming scientists.)

4) Collusion is clearly evident in the emails and is also being demonstrated by the media and the scientists covering for each other as though this is no big deal. It is, in fact, a very big deal. There should be a criminal investigation. Many people (Al Gore comes to mind) are making millions of dollars off of hyping green technology and screaming that the sky is falling. As usual "follow the money." It reveals a lot.

Listen to the audio video below and then take a look at some of the websites and articles which I've linked to below it. Man-made global warming is a fraud!



Climate Audit

Watt's Up With That?

Climate Gate Hacked Emails

Climategate Spreading to NASA?

ClimateGate: The Fix is In

Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?

Climategate - read all about it

Al Gore: Making a Mint Off of Cap and Trade

Cap-And-Trade: Al Gore's Cash Cow

Al Gore talks a lot about saving the planet. "Yadda, yadda, yadda...." Somehow his actions fall a little short of his words. He lives in an energy-gobbling mansion in Nashville, flies around the world in his private jet spewing carbon, rides around town in his gas-guzzling limo. This guy would be laughable if people didn't take his nonsense so seriously. Maybe they will when they have to buy carbon credits to carpool in their mini van to soccer games. Gore left office worth $2 million. He's now up around $100 million and with his investments in companies that will benefit from cap and trade, he stands to make multi-millions more. This greenie is no greenhorn when it comes to capitalizing on his global warming agenda, but don't you feel a little uneasy about the level of integrity involved in this business? Sort of like a Wall Street insider who gets advance notice of a company's boom?