The team has yet to determine whether a causative mechanism exists.
San Diego, July 30 - Scientists at one of the world's leading climate research centers have determined that extreme weather- and geologically-related events increase when claims of the Christian messiah's ethnic identity being "Palestinian" increase, and then revert to the mean again when such discourse subsides and sanity prevails once more, a new paper has documented.
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography is set to publish an article next month detailing what its authors describe as "uncanny correlation" between references to Jesus not as Jewish or Judean, his actual identity, but as "Palestinian," an identifier than would not gain currency for two millennia after his death, and incidences of severe hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and solar flares.
Lead author Pompei Richter disclosed in an interview in advance of publication that the study examined several years' worth of rhetoric on line, on air, and in print, overlaid with natural disasters more destructive, numerous, or deadly than average, and discovered a close correlation between the prevalence of "Jesus was a Palestinian" or related content, and more frequent and dangerous cataclysms.
"Climatologists and geologists have noted a serious uptick in destructive weather and seismic events in the last ten years," explained Richter. "That includes everything from flooding, pyroclastic flows, and tectonic disturbances to brush fires and deadly lightning strikes. One of our team noticed that the statistically significant shift took place simultaneous with the rise of the 'Jesus was a Palestinian' canard, and that led us to map the association. It's exact."
The team has yet to determine whether a causative mechanism exists, or even the direction of causation. "At the moment we don't know and it would be imprudent to venture anything more than a guess," Richter cautioned. "It's just as likely that the two sets of data share a cause, rather than one inducing the other."
While the Palestinian Jesus cataclysm correlation holds the title as the most robust and striking of the data correlations, the scientists also note several others that appear to be more than coincidental. These include an intriguing, if less exact, parallel between outsize algae blooms in the Amazon River delta and the incidence of propagandists on social media comparing Israel to the Nazis; coral reef die-offs in the Central and South Pacific and the frequency of the "Apartheid" epithet directed at Israel; and disruptions in Earth's magnetic field within seconds of each time an online antisemite claims opposition only to Netanyahu or to the Israeli government.
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