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Or whatever we are calling it in the face of record snow storms<\/a>.\u00a0 It looks like a very credible study has been released suggesting that primitive humans, by their very struggle for existence, helped cause Global Warming<\/a>, or whatever we are calling it in the face of record snow storms.<\/p>\n

I know, Pope Francis has put his imprimatur on the terrors of Global Warming and our inevitable destruction if we don\u2019t do something radical about it immediately.\u00a0 Nonetheless, this is a prickly part of the \u2018Science Says!\u2019 game that advocates of MMGW have to overcome.\u00a0 At least Catholic or Christian advocates. This is part of the whole \u2018humanity is the only species that is a festering, malignant blight on the otherwise pure and beautiful blue marble in space\u2019 viewpoint.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

My sons learned that.\u00a0 My third one specifically asked me about that one day after school.\u00a0 He was told that we are the only species that would improve the planet if we were wiped out.\u00a0 I mentioned that to a ministry circle that was more to the Left, and most concluded he was woefully wrong; he must have heard it wrong.\u00a0 And yet, it is now gaining steam.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t just overpopulation. It isn\u2019t just factories and motor cars that are the problem.\u00a0 It\u2019s the fact that we exist.<\/p>\n