Posted on 06/16/2018 4:44:26 AM PDT by GonzoII
It seems Pope Francis has learned little since his 2015 encyclical calling on the world to fight climate change by limiting the use of modern technologies and fossil fuels. He called many of the world’s leading oil companies to the carpet last week in a meeting he “requested” (anyone who says no to a meeting with the pope risks alienating many of the world’s estimated 1.3 billion Catholics) with the companies’ top executives. Francis called on the oil companies to shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, to save the Earth.
In a column written when Francis issued his encyclical, titled “Pope Francis: Before One Can Know What Is Moral, He Must Know What Is True,” a colleague of mine detailed myriad misguided or mistaken beliefs about climate science Francis received from climate alarmists and takes on faith as if they were holy writ. I won’t go into the science here, other than to say the paper still holds up well.
Francis’ views of the certainty of and danger from human caused climate change are false, and his belief the world can quickly abandon fossil fuels and still reduce hunger and poverty is potentially deadly.
Fossil fuels have been a boon to the world, lifting billions of people out of poverty and hunger, powering lighting, transportation, refrigeration, clean water, modern agriculture (including food delivery, storage, and protection from early decay and pests), indoor air conditioning and heating, cooking, and the multitude of other technologies upon which modern societies are based. In attacking fossil fuels, Francis undermines the use of the very resources and technologies most responsible for raising billions of people from penury. Coal, natural gas, and oil will continue to be vital to increasing lifespans, decreasing infant mortality, improving nutrition, and helping humans flourish for decades to come....
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The pope is a communist satanist, who cares what that loser says?
I think many Pope’s past and present would be happier with a simple world, the kind of simple world where the state of many things would have remained where they were if not for fossil fuels.
Like most Socialists, the Pope wants us to live in caves.
Prosperity is required to help the poor. Economic progress is required for prosperity. Modern technologies and fossil fuels are necessary for economic progress.
Screw Francis the Red! This guy was installed by the Left. It’s highly effective control and propaganda to highjack a major religious faith.
Marxist Liberation Theology.
The Pope is not a scientist and his opinions on global warming and climate change are obviously his own, not those of the church or the bible.
Instead of following the religion of Gore and his global warming leftist agenda, he should concentrate on the religion of Christianity and preach the word of God, not Gore.
As if God didn’t want man to find the hydrocarbons he created for us in the earth. “Those dangled ole wildcatters. Now, they will kill my planet.” There are no surprises in heaven.
Besides that ‘Black Liberation Theology’ crapola, the idiot has fallen for the Globull Gloaming scare mongering. Next thing you know he will be pushing the Peak Oil nonsense. While many of the Peak Oil devotees have finally shut up, treasonous Creepozoids still remain. One of my favorite ways to combat them is to point out that much of the hydrocarbons found on and in the Earth are not ‘fossil fuels.’ I point out that there are oceans and oceans of liquid methane and other hydrocarbons found on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. That we have only drilled a few short miles into the Earth.
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