Today the much-trumpeted Copenhagen Conference on Climate change begins.

This blog has already (10/11/2009) warned readers to be skeptical, not only about the science of alleged climate change, but also about the motives behind this Conference, which seems to be less about climate and more about something else.

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A couple of weeks ago, over 1000 emails exchanged by climate scientists in recent years, were “leaked”.

Climate scientists, far from being distinguished, learned, dispassionate seekers-after-truth as we might have hoped, are revealed as resorting to evidence-bending, scientific journal-boycotting and colleague-threatening. Their credibility has been blown out of the water. The scientific “consensus” seems to be built on a foundation of dirty tricks and intimidation.

So we ordinary mortals still don’t know the facts about climate trends. Those who should know are doing all possible to ensure that we never get enough facts to enable us to weigh up the pros and cons.

The average human being, world-wide, is sick of it.

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Where is the Church in all this?

Pope Benedict has issued a fairly low-key statement asking scientific leaders for “an attitude of respect and responsibility for creation”.

Meanwhile he’s devoting his energies to an astonishing degree to another formal discussion – that between the Vatican’s official theologians and the world’s biggest surviving group of traditional Catholics, the Society of Saint Pius the Tenth.

The Pope has ordered these groups to keep meeting every fortnight for as long as it takes to get the festering sore of the semi-Catholic conclusions of the 1960s Second Vatican Council sorted out, once and for all.

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Benedict XVI is lukewarm on warming, but red-hot on re-establishing the supernatural foundations of Catholic religion.

Insofar as “climate change” is a quasi-religious substitute for putting God first, it is a mere distraction and somebody like the Pope should be saying so.

Let us pray for our Pope that God will strengthen him to get the Church back on track.

If we pray for the Copenhagen Conference, let’s ask God that it will be over soon and everybody go home and start treating the world as God’s world, and other people as God’s children.