An Inconvenient Pattern

A quick post in the midst of our prep.  I was scanning the net for my daily fix of news when I discovered this interesting article on global warming; it's in The Telegraph online.

James Delingpole is musing over the recent figures released from climate experts (released discreetly it seems) that cast more doubt over the possibility of global warming.  It seems, according to the figures, global warming stopped 15 years ago, and it seems the earth's temperatures are falling.  We might, David Rose of The Mail on Sunday suggests, be heading for another mini ice age!

Perish the thought, my beloved Greenies: global warming is as true as overpopulation and the Y2K bug which threatened to down planes at Midnight 1999-2000 AD, sorry CE.  Of course it has been noted that the term "Global Warming" has been abandoned quietly in favour of "Climate Change" - just as "safe sex" with a condom became "safer sex" ie "well, actually, we can't guarantee you won't get AIDS, but you might be a little safer (teensie weensie bit saf-er) with our special priced condoms".

See a pattern here?  The usual suspects are getting caught out - their dire predictions are not coming true; their quick and easy solutions are not working - in fact they are making problems worse. That is why they are starting to get tyrannical.  They can no longer persuade, nor fool the people - their opponents are being proved right.  Now is the time to take out the opponents so the only side the general populace get to hear is theirs - the "new orthodoxy".  That is why the Catholic Church is such an enemy - she has been around so long she can smell a rat as soon as it appears.   That might explain Obama's course of action: use might, power and force to push the agenda through - to hell with the people. 

We shall keep an eye on such developments.  In the meantime, if all this global warming stuff is nonsense, will Al Gore have to give back his Nobel Peace Prize?  Nah - his story fits the views of the committee, why let a little inconvenient truth get in the way?

Winter Wonderland?

Well, the snow and frost have hit Ireland again this year.  Last night the flakes began to fall and we knew we were in trouble.  Every time snow comes to Ireland there is a national emergency - we are not used to it.  Living with a mild climate as we do, heavy winter showers are rare.  Will we have a white Christmas?  Might. Though given the fact that I'll have to traipse to three churches scattered throughout the countryside with steep hills and sharp bends, the novelty and romance has gone out of it.  "We're walking in the air" does not come to mind, but rather,

"We're traipsing through the snow,
we're freezing on the icy breeze,
and everywhere we go,
the car just slips and slides!"   Etc...

Anyway, it's all just part of global warming.  As we sit in our cars crawling at 10 km an hour in Arctic conditions and praying rosaries that the next slide won't land us in the ditch, we'll think of the polar bears sitting on a diminishing iceberg cruising through the Mediterranean.  The tragedy of it!   Wouldn't it be a heroic gesture to change places with that polar bear?  And we all aim to be heroic, heroic in the Mediterranean - can there be anything as Catholic as that?!  

So tell me, I'm not an expert on this, but how does plummeting temperatures, snow, ice and hard winters in a once mild country fit into this global warming thing?  Or do we go for the revised version, "climate change"?