Render unto Caesar ... And the Pope is still a dope! In the 1970's the worry was the coming Ice Age. m/r
Whats next? Excommunication of scientists whose theories aren’t approved by the Pope?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
New priests to learn about global warming as part of formation
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LOS ANGELES, CA (California Network) — The Catholic Church is
intimately concerned about climate change. The Vatican’s Pontifical
Academy of Sciences is the world’s oldest, longest running scientific
mission. That body, which advises the pope on matters of science, has
concluded that
global climate change is real and is caused, at least in significant part, by human activity.
This is important to the Church because creation care is part of our
mission. We are called to be stewards of creation. It’s also important
because climate change can exacerbate the ills of poverty. Poor people
in much of the world are the most vulnerable to changes.
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Unfortunately, the issue is politicized. In the late 1970s, when the
issue threatened the financial interests of the fossil fuel industry,
the political lobbies, chiefly in the United States, financed a massive
political disinformation campaign to manufacture the illusion of dissent
within the scientific community.
We know because this manipulation of public opinion has been caught and documented. The fossil fuel
industry funds nearly all of the climate change skeptics,
going so far as to commission questionable studies, to financing think
tanks, and even paying individual bloggers. The deception continues
today.
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But what does this have to do with the Church?
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