{"id":12722,"date":"2013-04-09T08:49:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T12:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=12722"},"modified":"2013-04-12T08:51:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T12:51:07","slug":"global-cooling-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/global-cooling-in-europe","title":{"rendered":"Global cooling in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.detroitnews.com\/politics\/files\/France_winter.jpg\" \/>Paris<\/i><i>, France<\/i>\u00a0\u2013 From Anglicanism to Catholicism, Europe\u2019s history is full of state-based religion. In secular 21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0century Europe, the unofficial state religion is the GreenChurch. Environmentalism inspires a devout, pro-Kyoto devotion here quite different than the more skeptical American outlook.<\/p>\n<p>But France\u2019s strident green political and media voices are curiously silent this year. Perhaps it\u2019s the bone-chilling spring.<\/p>\n<p>Parisians used to leafy April vistas shiver past leafless trees on Paris\u2019s beautiful, tree-lined parks. Temperatures are in the mid-40s, well below the 60s-normal. Average temperatures across the continent are, on average,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/en\/weather-blogs\/andrews\/how-cold-europe-was-in-march-2013\/9313909\">4-8 degrees below normal<\/a>\u00a0with March registering colder average temperatures than January. Snow fell in England, France, and Germany this spring- an unusual occurrence. The cold snap follows the frigid London Olympics last summer and over a decade of flat temperatures worldwide. Hardly the stuff of global warming. But the GreenChurch is firm in its doctrine \u2013 and the global warming high priests must be obeyed.<\/p>\n<p>If Christianity was the opiate of the masses in centuries gone by, then global warming is the opiate of the upper middle class.<\/p>\n<p>As such, politicians here have imposed draconian laws on their masses, from high gas taxes to high utility costs \u2013 a situation so extreme in Germany that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/frontpagemag.com\/2012\/dgreenfield\/electric-poverty-and-germanys-green-energy-disaster\/\">the term \u201celectric poverty\u201d<\/a>\u00a0has become a common term. Unable to afford high energy costs imposed by government censor of sinful coal power, thousands have had their power shut off.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Paris, French citizens suffer under $7.50 a gallon gas even as hey huddle at the pumps in winter overcoats. They pay their sin taxes, but, they may ask, to what end?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris, France\u00a0\u2013 From Anglicanism to Catholicism, Europe\u2019s history is full of state-based religion. In secular 21st\u00a0century Europe, the unofficial state religion is the GreenChurch. Environmentalism inspires a devout, pro-Kyoto devotion here quite different than the more skeptical American outlook. But France\u2019s strident green political and media voices are curiously silent this year. Perhaps it\u2019s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12723,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12722\/revisions\/12723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}