Ronald Know warned in his best-seller Enthusiasm (1950):

“where wealth abounds, it is easy to mistake shadow for substance; the fires of spirituality may burn low, and we go on unconscious, dazzled by the glare of tinsel”.

Climate change warrior, the distinguished astrophysicist James Hansen, went from being a NASA expert on planetary atmospherics to climate activist, even being arrested for demonstrating outside the White House in 2010.

For his fascinating life see my essay on him in my blog “Global Warming” in dpcrook.wordpress.com.

Engineers are constantly devising ingenious mechanical solutions to global warming. One is to seed the atmosphere with millions of tonnes of sulphur dioxide which, they predict, will reflect the sun’s radiation back into space. This would cause global cooling. One unpleasant side-effect would be that it would alter the spectrum of light. So we would be living under a white sky instead of our normal blue sky.

[Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky]

Elizabeth Kolbert’s new book Under a White Sky paints a scary picture of our world if we don’t solve global warming. As a Guardian review puts it:

“Thanks to humans, the planet is heating dangerously fast, there is now more CO2 in the atmosphere than at any time in millions of years, the extinction rate of other species is hundreds, maybe thousands, of times above natural levels, and just about every planetary warning gauge is heading further into the red”:

Guardian Weekly 12 March 2021, p. 40.

The Stanford Research Institute for the American Petroleum Institute concluded:

If the earth’s temperature increases significantly, a number of events might be expected to occur, including the melting of the Antarctic ice cap, a rise in sea levels, warming of the oceans, and an increase in photosynthesis…. Significant temperature changes are almost certain to occur by the year 2000 and these could bring about climate change.

This was in 1968!

[“Smoke and Fumes” report 1968]

“We cannot feel any respect for a religion which does not demand more of us than we feel we want to give”

Ronald Knox, Caliban in Grub Street (1930)

That great saint St John of the Cross said that “many persons say God has spoken to them, when they have only been talking to themselves”