Pope Francis got it right, saying that climate change is “also a religious problem.” Except he didn’t get it right at all because he meant to support the climate cultists who have what he otherwise called an “insatiable desire for power” over every aspect of our lives. What we mean is that climate alarmism is a cult — a religious problem.

Which brings us to columnist Cheryl Chumley, who does get it right.

Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres kicked off COP28 in United Arab Emirates, land of oil, by talking about a couple of melting glaciers as proof of the need for people to stop driving and flying and eating meat and using gas stoves, and then adding, in reference to the droughts and floods that follow ice melts, “but this is just one symptom of the sickness bringing our climate to its knees” — whatever that means. At this point, does it even matter what the climate alarmists say?

Those who worship the green goddess of environmentalism know they don’t even have to take a stab at talking real science any more.

They can just send in Greta Thunberg to wag her Wendy pigtails and scold, “How dare you” in a hissing stage-directed voice a few — thousand — times and then wind up Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to watch her go “12 years! 12 years!” — and voila, science is born.

Chumley quotes Guterres opining about “melting ice of Antarctica” and “melting glaciers of Nepal,” which he says is evidence of “sickness” that only “global leaders can cure.”

Government’s the answer to what — weather patterns? And not just any government, but global government; the bigger and more powerful and less accountable to the people, the better.

That nobody really believes the bull that comes out of the mouths of the globalists and leftists about the climate is irrelevant. …

Truth is the first casualty of environmentalism.

Really, today’s green agenda, such as presented at the Climate Change Conference taking place in the United Arab Emirates right now, is all about money; all about seizing power; all about wresting control from citizens of the various governments of the world and frightening and shaming and forcing them into compliance with the globalist agenda — about forcing a bowing and worship of a false pagan god of green.

On top of that, there’s no way for us to opt out of this control — because it’s top-down, everywhere control. She concludes.

All they need is ignorant, compliant masses and a little help from their pagan friends in environmentalism to sound some alarms.

“Climate change is at the center of everything,” Bloomberg wrote.

Yes. It’s truly the god of the left.

Read the whole thing here.