The erudite Washington Post, Protector of Democracy from Death in Darkness, reveals its environmentalist religious fervor in a front-page, above the fold article on a hot and dry spell in parts of Italy that is destroying the rice crop yields in the risotto heartland.
Note the secondary headline: "Farmers in risotto heartland are facing 'stomach-churching' heat and dryness"
Yet in the fourth paragraph of the text, the Italian farmer says "It's stomach-churning."
No where in the article do the authors claim that this heat and dryness is the result of catastrophic man-made global warming. There is actually a map in the article that shows that much of Italy is wetter than usual, just as much is drier than usual. That map is not mentioned in the text at all. The chef of a restaurant near the Rizzotti farm is quoted as saying, "As far as I am concerned, this is the beginning of a series of crises that will happen again and again." She is perhaps implying that this event is due to catastrophic man-made global warming.
But, the authors wisely make no such claim. This is the case more and more often I find. The catastrophic man-made global warming hypothesis has suffered such severe scientific failure that the religious environmentalists that want the idea to take firm hold of the minds of the people can themselves no longer risk their reputations on claiming it is scientifically validated. Now, they set up cherry-picked articles for which they know the response of many people will be to assume that the ill event was caused by catastrophic man-made global warming. This article is one such example. It serves the political purposes of those who wish to return to the Medieval Period, however.
The article is a stomach-churning example of the stomach-churching environmentalists expressing their religious fervor for their irrational cause. As the churches of the Medieval Period were in opposition to the scientific method, so too are the stomach-churching environmentalists.