Climatology Versus Climatism

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".....the End of the world is already near.....As this same End of the world is drawing nigh , many unusual things will happen-----climatic changes, terrors from heaven, unseasonable tempests, wars, famines, pestilences and earthquakes." The quotation is from a letter sent by a very famous and influential man to a European head of state. Its author is disclosed at the end of this essay.

Climatology is a science. Climatism is an ideology. Climatologists are scientists. Climatists are social or political organizers who abuse climatology in the service of ideologues. Climatology was and still is an investigation of nature. Climatism is the exploitation of the fear of nature to gain power, wealth and social esteem.
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The quotation at the beginning of this essay was taken from a letter by Pope Gregory the Great to Ethelbert, King of the Angles (June 601). Gregory was one of the most talented, learned and accomplished men of the Middle Ages. If even one as able as he could be wrong, then why should we believe any climatist today?