And evil billionaires.
Posted on 10/25/2016 4:45:10 PM PDT by marshmallow
Hailed as a significant call for action, the pope’s encyclical has not had the anticipated rallying effect on public opinion, researchers have found
The pope’s call for action on climate change has fallen on closed ears, research suggests.
A study by researchers in the US has found that right-leaning Catholics who had heard of the pope’s message were less concerned about climate change and its effects on the poor than those who had not, and had a dimmer view of the pope’s credibility.
“The pope and his papal letter failed to rally any broad support on climate change among the US Catholics and non-Catholics,” said Nan Li, first author of the research from Texas Tech University.
“The conservative Catholics who are cross-pressured by the inconsistency between the viewpoints of their political allies and their religious authority would tend to devalue the pope’s credibility on this issue in order to resolve the cognitive dissonance that they experience,” she added.
Issued in June 2015, Pope Francis’s encyclical, called Laudato Si’, warned of an “unprecedented destruction of ecosystems” if climate change continues unchecked and cited the scientific consensus that human activity is behind global warming.
Research conducted on the eve of the announcement found that 68% of Americans and 71% of US Catholics believe in climate change, with Democrats more likely than Republicans to believe in the issue, put it down to human causes and rate it as a serious problem.
The pontiff’s comments were seen by many as a significant call for action in the battle against climate change, focusing on the moral need to address the impact of humans on the planet. “Pope Francis is personally committed to this [climate] issue like no other pope before him. The encyclical will have a major impact,” said Christiana Figueres, the UN’s climate chief, at..........
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Now you know why there were antipopes.
True. The educated agreed that the earth was round, they disagreed on the placement of it and the sun.
Francis is being controlled by crooked politicians. I’d like to know the real reason Benedict stepped down. Perhaps he wouldn’t allow himself to be controlled.
Leonardo DeCaprio seems to be the newest mark for Climate Change. The man is being relieved of his $$$$ and being taken advantage of and promoting it for free for the powers that be. He thinks we will all be under water by 2025 (where have we heard that before?). The man is probably going to end up being loonier than Howard Hughes and penniless by the time the elites that are manipulating him get through with him. He wasoneof the hubs I was hoping wouldn’t join the crazies but it appears it’s not to be...
Not at all!
From the start I’ve commented:
How sad it is that the Pope has fallen for such a fraudulent agenda that is exactly contrary to the objectives of the Church.
“Climate Change” is all about:
Population Control, Contraception, and Abortion.
Economic oppression of third world countries, keeping them from developing independence and the energy necessary to control and benefit from their own natural resources.
It has NOTHING to do with “being responsible stewards”!
I will listen when he speaks of matters of faith. When he speaks of climate changem he speaks of bullship.
screw you francis.
or lighten up. whatever.
They'll emit much less CO2 in their home country.
Tell us to seal the border and boot the illegals and I'll support you Francis.
The fake Pope should worry about saving souls.
There is no need to save the earth from CO2.
CO2 is not a threat to the earth.
Without it, there is no life.
No one listens to and believes this pope.
The Ptolemaic system was based on sophisticated math which actually worked. You could use it to make accurate calendars, predict the movement of celestial bodies across the night sky, foretell high tides and low tides and eclipses with precision, etc. It actually predicted better than the heliocentric hypothesis until a century later when some of the kinks were banged out of Galileo’s system.
And that whole business of the “missing” stellar parallax wasn’t worked out until, IIRC, the early 20th century.
Not to minimize Galileo’s -— and especially Copernicus’s—— achievement. Just adding a little more perspective.
The take-home lessons: science is not determined by “consensus” and is never “settled”.
And the Pope’s opinion on this is as good as my opinion on, oh, nanotechnology. These are not areas where we can pose as authorities.h
Actually, no. Antipopes were the result of rival conclaves, not rival theologies.
Then bring on a rival conclave!
Stranger things have happened.
Huh?
And evil billionaires.
Catholics are not “resolving their cognitive dissonance” by ignoring the Pope; they are merely taking note of the fact that the Pope is abusing his office to promote his lifelong alliance with totalitarians.
Never happened.
We need a MUCH better Pope than JPII! He was totally negligent when it came to governance. He pumped out encyclicals, while Weakland, Bernardin, Mahony, and dozens of other sodomite heretics went on, and on, and on. And he appointed more and more of them.
Even if the Pope had ten degrees in physics and other sciences, if he said anything about his scientific opinions in an encyclical, he would be abusing his office.
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