Is the climate change ‘crisis’ a fraud?

Washington, DC: Among the many problems of our times, that of climate change has been hyped beyond all proportions in both developed and developing countries. Consequently, it has become virtually impossible to distinguish between the just and proper care of the environment, which is a great moral and social duty, and environmentalism, which is a great moral excess.

Pope Francis’s June 2015 encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si, Mi’ Signore (Praise be to you, my Lord), which has been praised by many who praise everything the Pope says, should have helped make the distinction much clearer. But many devout Christians, Catholics faithful to the Church Magisterium, feel Laudato Si’s paean to “Mother Earth” as the source of all life is poetry, not theology or science, and a possible slipping toward paganism.