The fact of godlike Human power (A letter from Screwtape to his nephew, Wormwood)

(The Screwtape Letters: A 21st century addendum)
Dearest Wormwood,
What has motivated your patient's doubt in the fact of human global warming.

The scientific-media has gone to great lengths to persuade the carnal populace with the knowledge that they may all, individually, have a godlike power over the fact of this imposed warmth.

I am concerned that you are allowing him to dismiss global warming, so easily.

Dearest nephew, you must be aware of the vast amounts of blood and treasure, not to mention the warm CO2 (a.k.a. “hot air”), which has been spilled by our sacred & faithful scientific-media followers, all of which has been done with sanctimonious piety, (as provided by the Proud Spirit of our father down below), and this hard labor has been done so that these mortals may take a prideful comfort, in the fact that there exists a human power to provide global HVAC to the masses.

Wormwood, I recognize that you, probably, remain hopeful that Earth may be moving into a warming era of human history, not unlike our blessed home, and therefore, you do not want to encourage your patient to cool the globe, however nephew, If you should be so FOOLISH as to allow him to deny the fact of man's culpability in the warmth issue, then you are, by necessary inference, denying the almost divine power of the fact of secular Humanism.

Nephew, your actions with your patient, also appear to be denying the fact that mankind's secular activities hold the power to alternately, provide either perdition or salvation by the shear force of human will.

Are you daft? Do you not have enough sense to know that mankind must, at all costs, have and maintain a proud comfort in their ability to “pull themselves up by their own bootstraps”? Do you not understand that any silly little concession by you, (a very junior Tempter), is an unforgivable sacrilege, and the penalty for such heresy is no small matter.

Lest you think that our adversary’s quaint little book should hold any sway over our father down below, please remember that he is only bemused by the words “Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.”

Therefore, you should, with all haste, confirm in your patient’s heart & mind, that human activity is the only physical matter, that holds power to “save”. Whatever “save” means is irrelevant, because humans rarely take time to consider such words in anything other than a temporal sense.
Your Affectionate Uncle,

Screwtape