In these uncertain times of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders are laser-focused on combating the contagion. But controversial figures like child climatologist Greta Thunberg and Pope Francis are using the crisis as a sounding board for their brand of climate politics. As unsettling as that may seem to an already anxious global community, the climate kid and Pope have fallen far short of delivering comfort.
“There is an expression in Spanish: ‘God always forgives, we forgive sometimes, but nature never forgives,’” Pope Francis reportedly said. “We did not respond to the partial catastrophes. Who now speaks of the fires in Australia, or remembers that a year and a half ago, a boat could cross the North Pole because the glaciers had all melted? Who speaks now of the floods? I don’t know if it is nature’s revenge, but it is certainly nature’s response.”
The Pope has been an outspoken climate change advocate who appears to not temper his views with competing scientific facts. Scientists recently discovered that a vast rainforest was once present under the Antarctic ice caps 90 million years. This fact flies in the face of so-called “climate science” that claims polar caps are melting from purely human activity.
Despite fact-based evidence that the Earth has gone through numerous climate incarnations, end-of-days cultists continue to profess human activity will bring about the world’s end. Just a few years ago, Pope Francis was espousing precisely those views.
“Fires, earthquakes … nature is throwing a tantrum so that we will take care of her,” Pope Francis reportedly said. “Now is the time to abandon our dependence on fossil fuels and move, quickly and decisively, towards forms of clean energy and a sustainable and circular economy.”
The Pope has gone as far as to say that the COVID-19 plague is nature exacting “revenge” on humanity for not following left-wing recommendations about climate change.
Swedish climate kid, Thunberg, echoed similar sentiments as the Pope. The teen activist has gone as far as to claim she contracted the virus to gain attention.
“I was feeling tired, had shivers, a sore throat, and coughed. My dad experienced the same symptoms, but much more intense and with a fever,” Thunberg reportedly posted on social media to her fans. “In Sweden, you cannot test yourself for COVID-19 unless you’re in need of emergency medical treatment. I have therefore not been tested for COVID-19, but it’s extremely likely that I’ve had it, given the combined symptoms and circumstances.”
Whether that claim is valid or not, it’s highly unlikely anyone will ever know. That’s because Greta has zero science to back up her claims. The entire charade echoes of irony, given climate data is rarely, if ever, is debated openly or honestly in scientific circles. Thunberg’s baseless claim, however, serves as a springboard to draw similarities to climate change narratives.
“But it also shows one thing: That once we are in a crisis, we can act to do something quickly, act fast,” Thunberg reportedly said. “Though it must be in a different way to how we have acted in this case, we can act fast and change our habits and treat a crisis like a crisis.”
In Washington, D.C., Democrats are hard at work trying to manipulate the health crisis to fund their climate change initiatives.
“If they want to bail out the airline industry, then the airline industry better damn well be ready to clean up its act in terms of carbon emissions offsets,” Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse reportedly said.
If everyday people held out any hope that left-wing zealots would set aside politics during these troubling times, that was a pipe dream.
