James Whittle

Cradle Catholic. Husband. Father of 3. Patriot. Kentuckian. Baby-boomer. Baseball fan. Horse racing fan. Insurance lawyer.

[James Whittle @jaywhittle]

Vatican II and the Lasting Influence of Garrigou-Lagrange's Mystical Theology https://t.co/r36ASabCjn

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

“On this day, July 17 in 1794, in the midst of the French Revolution, 16 Carmelite sisters were guillotined: 11 Discalced Carmelite nuns, three lay sisters, and two tertiaries. They were executed near the end of the “Reign of Terror,” and are venerated as true saints and martyrs for the faith.

One of the nuns, 78 year old Sister Mary of Jesus Crucified, was heard to say to her executioners, “I forgive you, my friends. I forgive you with all that longing of heart with which I would that God forgive me!”

Collectively, these nuns are now remembered as the Martyrs of Compiègne.

In the years of the French Revolution many thousands of other Catholics were killed by the guillotine, shootings, mob violence, forced drownings in the Vendee, and other forms of butchery.

Two years earlier, in August 1792, the government ordered all women's monasteries closed; the seizure and removal of the Compiègne convent's furnishings occurred on 12 September, and the sisters were forced to leave the convent. Their superior, Mother Teresa. made arrangements for the 20 sisters living in the convent at the time to hide in the city in four separate apartments and find civilian clothes for them to wear, since the wearing of habits and religious apparel had been outlawed.

There are no surviving relics of the Martyrs of Compiègne because their heads and bodies were buried, along with 128 other victims executed that day, in a deep, 30-feet square sand-pit in the Picpus Cemetery.

They were beatified by Pope St. Pius X on May 27, 1906, and canonized by Pope Francis on December 18, 2024. We ask the Martyrs of Compiègne — pray for us!”

Source: Dr. Scott Hahn

[Tony Heller 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 @TonyClimate]

Sea level has fallen about half a meter since 1890 at Stockholm, Sweden. This means @GretaThunberg has to walk further to the beach.

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[Keanu.. @KeanuReevesYaga]

I have no problem with Islam. I am just against beheadings, stoning, marrying little girls, sexual slavery, taqiyya,slave trading, rape, jihad, burqas, child abuse, women abuse, animal abuse,multiple wives, murder, Sharia,terrorism, brainwashing, . Does that make me Islamophobic?

[Bree Solstad @BreeSolstad]

232 years ago today, 16 humble Catholic Carmelite Nuns effectively put an end to the French Revolution’s Godless reign of terror in France.

How did they do it?

They died singing praises to the Lord and shattered the atheistic delusion that has overwhelmed the psyche of a nation

[Robbert Leusink 🇳🇱 @robbertleusink]

On this day in 1794, the French Revolution guillotined sixteen Carmelite nuns for being nuns

They walked to the scaffold singing the Veni Creator Spiritus.

Each one renewed her vows before mounting the guillotine. The prioress, Mother Teresa of St Augustine, went last. She waited until every sister was dead before she knelt

Robespierre was arrested ten days later. The Terror ended almost immediately after.

The nuns were canonised in 1906.

The ideology that killed them is now taught in your local parish church.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

365 years of temperature data from central England, the world's longest running climate record, show no trend.

Despite a six-fold rise in population and a surge in CO2, January temperatures have barely shifted since 1600. Likewise for July, the hottest month of the year, temperatures are virtually unchanged.

The warmest winters on record happened in the 1700s, the 1800s, and the early 1900s, long before modern emissions.

Any warming is slow, natural, with the slight modern uptick likely linked to 1) the urban heat island effect, and 2) earth's gradual recovery from the little ice age.

If CO2 really controlled the climate, this chart (see video) would shoot up on the right, but it doesn't...

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

We live on a largely pleasant, yet historically cool world, where average temperatures hover around 15C.

This current baseline includes the 1.4C rise since the start of the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago. We are rarely reminded Earth's climate is roughly 10 degrees 'colder' than the long-term global average of 18C to 26C across hundreds of millions of years.

A warmer climate would not be a crisis, and never has across the history of biological life.

Humans and our unique, symbolism-based culture evolved against this cooling, drying backdrop of the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, which has lasted 34 million years since the glaciation of Antarctica. We are currently in its coldest phase — the Quaternary glaciation — which has endured for 2.58 million years.

Almost all human civilisation - and our acute sense of modernity - arrived during a brief, 11,700-year warm interglacial oasis known as the Holocene. This demonstrates that we are an 'ice age adapted' species, as are all modern mammals. Yet the current climate crisis is built around an institutional dogma, which ignores this vast geological history, operating as if the earth works just like a greenhouse, which it doesn't.

It's all complex. While orbital cycles dictate the 'macro' climate epochs of the Earth over millennia, the current debate focuses entirely on the 'micro' trend of the last 250 years. Our planet is constantly responding to the orbital aberrations identified by Milutin Milanković.

Over the short term, this changeability comes from natural variability in solar radiance, ocean currents, atmospheric water vapor and volcanic activity; over the deeper long term, it is guided by the ponderous tectonic creaking of continental plates.

The world's oceans, water vapor and clouds contribute 50% to 70% of atmospheric warming. The geological record reveals that only after the oceans — especially the Southern Ocean — have warmed for centuries does dissolved CO₂ outgas from the deep waters, a process unfolding over 5,000 to 10,000 years.

To focus exclusively on a trace gas like CO₂ is to ignore the true scale and power of these natural systems. Furthermore, the narrative completely missed the biological utility of this gas: NASA satellite data has shown a significant increase in global green foliage over recent decades, largely driven by elevated CO₂ levels acting as an airborne fertiliser. This green wave, alongside booming global agriculture, was entirely unanticipated by backers of the crisis agenda.

Today, this narrative runs directly counter to thermodynamic reality: we simply cannot run a modern economy without high-density fossil fuels, a baseline power that wind and solar cannot replicate.

To pretend otherwise is to forget our place in the natural world, where we live largely by chance, and only as invited guests — not as Overlords.

[𝔃𝔞𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔞𝔰 𝔰 @OrdinariateUSA]

Reminder that leftists murdered 55,000 priests and nuns in cold blood in Spain from 1936-1939 during the communist Red Terror.

To compare, the Spanish Inquisition killed 3,000 people over 374 years.

Francisco Franco is a hero and saved Spain from the same fate that Eastern Europe endured under communist tyranny.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Here's what NASA's satellite data actually show about global vegetation growth...

Between 2000 and 2017 alone, the planet's leaf area index increased by 5%, adding an area twice the size of the continental United States in new green growth.

Much of this greening is happening in semi-arid and dry regions, including large parts of Africa, where plants are responding to increased atmospheric CO2.

Overall, NASA estimates that over 25% of the global vegetated surface is significantly greener today than it was at the start of the century.

Far from the catastrophizing desert expansion predictions, many of the world's driest landscapes are actually growing greener.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

New research claims human emissions are not driving atmospheric CO2.

A paper by Dai Ato ran multiple linear regressions for 1959 to 2022, testing two predictors of the annual CO2 increase: sea surface temperature and human emissions.

The result was clear: when the oceans warmed, CO2 levels rose almost exactly in step - about two to three parts per million for every one degree Celsius of warming.

Adding human emissions to the model didn't change the outcome.

Using only ocean temperature, the model reproduced global CO2 levels with near-perfect accuracy - a correlation of 0.995 and an error of just one to two ppm by 2022.

The main factor governing the annual increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration is sea surface temperature rather than human emissions.

Earlier studies have shown the same pattern. Temperature changes first, CO2 follows.

If Ato is correct, cutting human emissions won't lower atmospheric CO2 because it's the oceans that set the pace.

[Steve Cortes @CortesSteve]

Good morning!

Today in 1949, Pope Pius XII excommunicated all communists from the Catholic Church, calling Marxism the “irreconcilable enemy” of Christianity.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Antarctica is colder and more icebound today than at any point in the past 5,000 years.

Research by Hall (2023) found that West Antarctica cooled by more than 1.8C between 1999 and 2018.

Satellite data confirm continent-wide cooling, as do multiple glacier studies.

Piccini (2024) found the Collins Glacier was 1km farther back 6,000 years ago and began re-advancing about 1,000 years ago, which is clear evidence of cooling since the Medieval Warm Period.

Even the biology of the continent documents this shift.

A millennium ago, the Ross Sea hosted around 200,000 elephant seals as far south as 78 degrees. Today, those colonies are gone. They disappeared as the region froze over: too cold and ice-choked for breeding or foraging.

The Hall paper concludes: "The last few centuries, including the present, represent the coldest, iciest conditions in the post-glacial period."

Modern Antarctica is not warming, it's freezing.

[Robbert Leusink 🇳🇱 @robbertleusink]

On July 9th 1572, nineteen Catholic priests were hanged in a peat shed in the Netherlands.

They were offered their lives if they denied the Eucharist. All nineteen refused. The ropes were too long to break their necks. They strangled slowly.

The men who killed them founded the Dutch Republic.

The country the world knows for tolerance began here.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

The world is more than 1°C warmer and CO₂ has reached 427 ppm — yet our planet is turning into a greener paradise.

NASA data shows global greening from higher CO₂ has delivered an unexpected windfall: an increase in leaf area equivalent to the contiguous United States — or roughly the size of the entire Amazon Rainforest.

The Sahel has reclaimed 8% of its dry barren lands and Arctic vegetation surged 38% between 1985 and 2016. Satellites detected significant greening across 25–50% of the world's vegetated areas (NASA/Boston University findings, 2000–2017).

Food production has been substantially boosted. This is the Earth actively participating: 30% of these new green areas provide natural cooling through enhanced water-vapour management.

The planet isn’t a passive victim — it’s an active, resilient participant. By comparison, UN climate ideology sells fear and control.

This reality invites out renewed faith in the natural world.
-@PeterDClack

[Tony Heller 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 @TonyClimate]

The 1901 heatwave was caused by emissions from the Oldsmobile Curved Dash Model R.
Because .... science

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Svalbard, a remote Arctic archipelago, holds inconvenient secrets about our climate history.

A new study reveals it was up to 9C warmer around 10,000 years ago when CO2 was just 260 parts per million. Despite this warmth, glaciers didn't vanish. They survived, supported by increased snowfall.

Svalbard then cooled for the next 8,000 years while CO2 kept rising. No tipping points, no runaway melt.

Yet today's climate models project the same 8 to 9C of warming by the year 2100 (using the discredited RCP8.5 scenario), and predict widespread glacier loss.

That directly contradicts the historical record. Even the study's authors admit the future may follow the past. Warmer, wetter conditions could bring more snowfall, stabilizing or even growing glaciers.

The fatal flaw in climate modeling has raised its ugly head once again. It can't replicate history. And when the past contradicts your theory, it's the theory that's broken, not the past.

[Chris B Bacon @ChrisBBacon3]

@MatthewWielicki The Glacier Alps record is a particular killer for climate alarmists. I think Hannibal crossing the Alps with elephants would be impossible today

[Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki @MatthewWielicki]

The claim that Europe wasn't as warm as today before industrial CO₂ isn't supported by the evidence.

Tree rings. Alpine glaciers. Vineyard records. Lake sediments. Historical documents.

They all show that parts of Europe experienced warmth exceeding 20th-century temperatures during the Medieval Warm Period, when CO₂ was about 280 ppm.

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

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