{"id":10550,"date":"2015-12-16T19:56:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T02:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=10550"},"modified":"2015-12-16T19:56:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T02:56:27","slug":"there-is-no-god-but-gaia-and-climate-scientists-are-her-prophets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/12\/16\/there-is-no-god-but-gaia-and-climate-scientists-are-her-prophets\/","title":{"rendered":"There Is No God But Gaia And Climate Scientists Are Her Prophets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The mask drops and Climate Scientists\u2122 are now admitting that to save Gaia, they must rely on the <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/E\/EU_CLIMATE_COUNTDOWN_GOD_FACTOR?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2015-12-06-15-15-25\" target=\"_blank\">power of religion<\/a> to smite the climate unbelievers:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;[A]s climate negotiators struggle in Paris, some scientists who appealed to the rational brain are enlisting what many would consider a higher power: the majesty of faith.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In the first five days of climate negotiations, interfaith activists came, fasted, talked to media, buttonholed leaders and prayed. On Saturday night in a downtown Paris chapel, hundreds of people, many of them prostrated on the ground, sang and prayed for the climate negotiators and mostly for the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10551\" title=\"Global Warming God\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Global_Warming_God_180_2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"174\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And of course they are invoking Pope Francis:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;But this time, with the power of Pope Francis&#8217; encyclical earlier this year calling global warming a moral issue and an even more energized interfaith community\u2026 the world&#8217;s faithful are watching and will hold world leaders accountable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is not the first time that <a title=\"The Climate Inquisition\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/11\/09\/the-climate-inquisition\/\" target=\"_blank\">religious ferver<\/a> and even appeal to <a title=\"Getting Gay with Kids\u2026 For Gaia\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/05\/22\/getting-gay-with-kids-for-gaia\/\" target=\"_blank\">pagan<\/a> <a title=\"The Climate Change Eco-Movement in One Picture\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/10\/04\/the-climate-change-eco-movement-in-one-picture\/\" target=\"_blank\">gods<\/a> has been done by Climate Change apocalyptic prophets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10365\" title=\"climate inquisition\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/climate-inquisition.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/climate-inquisition.jpg 550w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/climate-inquisition-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"There Is No God But Gaia And Climate Scientists Are Her Prophet\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The mask drops and Climate Scientists are now admitting that to save Gaia, they must rely on the power of religion to smite the climate unbelievers\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Global_Warming_God_180_2.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The mask drops and Climate Scientists\u2122 are now admitting that to save Gaia, they must rely on the power of religion to smite the climate unbelievers: &#8220;[A]s climate negotiators struggle in Paris, some scientists who appealed to the rational brain &hellip; 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