An Encyclical too far?

Posted on 17 June 2015 by Scottish-Sceptic

There’s a general rule that anyone with any sense doesn’t make predictions based of very short runs of data. So it would be crazy for me to start getting excited on what is after all just the first day of the pre-release of the encyclical.
However, things just have not gone that smoothly for what was supposed to be a major event stemming the tide of scepticism. Because after the initial flurry of the expected environmentalists “pope excommunicates climate denier” type news stories, the alarmist stories have pretty much crumbled. So much so that even by the end of day one I reckon that sceptic articles were dominating.
That’s appalling! It’s their story! They should be running with it, not us. They should have had days of news stories, so such an early turn around is a disaster for the alarmists. Yes, it’s still early and things might change.
There’s a scene in Lord of the Rings where the auks are attacking Helm’s Deep and one of them says something like “is that all they’ve got”. Obviously it’s a really bad quote because the auks then blow up the defensive wall and nearly overrun the place. But looking at the climate articles I have been left very much thinking: “is that all they’ve got”?
Because at present, I’m left wondering what on earth the pope was thinking when he got involved with this encyclical.

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3 Responses to An Encyclical too far?

  1. mpcraig says:
    17 June 2015 at 01:14

    This is way off topic but since you’re Scottish I thought I’d mention a TV show called ‘Outlander’. It takes place in 1743 Scotland. Just in case you missed it, the second season just ended.

  2. Scottish-Sceptic says:
    17 June 2015 at 09:38

    In the 1690s the Scottish population was more than decimated by a colder period of climate. But because that population decline was before the union, it doesn’t suit Scottish historians who like to blame the English and further the nationalist myth of English repression.
    OK, the English are hardly paradigms of virtue. But I just can’t abide made up history.
    Rather conveniently all those deserted settlements which undoubtedly were abandoned in the 1690s are attributed to periods after the union. Unfortunately the evidence from parish registers shows rising population. In other words, after the union/1690s we saw a period of rising prosperity and population growth. This period is now termed “the highland clearances” – a period known elsewhere as “the agricultural revolution”… in other words, so much of that period is total fabrication that I really do not want to get sucked in.

  3. mpcraig says:
    17 June 2015 at 15:00

    This is interesting. I was going to ask if you saw the show and if the historical accounts were accurate. Fortunately, we don’t really have that problem here in Canada since we are really quite a young country although some historical records of treatment of our indigenous people might be a little skewed.

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