Cardinal Pell after Bacon

To Hell, Pell-Mell

C ardinal Pell has claimed on PM today that Global Warming is not happening.
He has “studied the science”, he says, and come to the rational conclusion that there is no evidence for global warming. In fact, he said, he was speaking to a “scientist” only the other day, and he said that the rise in CO₂ follows warming rather than preceding it. Case closed.

He’s talking about the Milankovitch cycles which in fact do not debunk human causes for global warming. Skepticalscience covers this and pretty much all the other arguments against anthropogenic causes for global warming.

But hey, don’t put George down. It’s good that he’s a sceptic. That’s scientific, right?

He’s always totally rational and that’s why he should be trusted. He uses a special textbook called The Bible, which was written by his imaginary friend in the sky, so it must be true, right?

That’s why he believes:

• that a virgin gave birth to a son after being visited by a winged humanoid from another dimension and then being impregnated by an immaterial spirit;
• that a man actually walked on water;
• that a man actually rose from the dead;
• that a man actually floated bodily up into the sky and went to heaven.
• that there really is a place called heaven where physical bodies go and are re-animated after they die;
• that a woman was created from a man’s rib;
• that a man actually divided two loaves of bread and five fishes such that there was sufficient to feed thousands of people with some left over;
• that wine and bread become the real and actual blood and flesh of a man who lived—if he did live—two thousand years ago,
• and who left the earthly realm altogether in the most dramatic and unequivocal way imaginable,
• and that despite being actual blood and flesh the ex-wine and ex-bread still taste like wine and bread.

George Pell’s rationalist credentials are obviously unquestionable.

So let’s put the future of the planet in his hands. Okay?