Posted on 09/08/2007 7:45:12 AM PDT by Libloather
Prayer to End Climate Change
Religious Leaders Join Scientists in Environmental Concerns on Greenland's Melting Glaciers
From World News with Charles Gibson
By CARRIE MCGOURTY
Sept. 7, 2007
Religious leaders from all over the world met at the mouth of a melting glacier in Greenland today to say a silent prayer for the planet, appealing to mankind to address the impact that humanity is having on life on Earth.
A group of nearly 200 scientists, theologians and government officials sailed into the ice fields of the Illulissat Icefjord, the largest glacier in Greenland that is bearing the brunt of global warming.
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The pope delivered a message via video from the Vatican while religious leaders of Christian, Jewish and Islamic faiths prayed silently.
"We're all in awe of this spectacle," said Neal Ascherson, a spokesperson for Religion, Science and the Environment (RSE), the group coordinating the event.
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"We're in the engine room of the globe," he said. "This is where the world's climate has been created for thousands of years. And I think everybody is moved by the overwhelming importance and ominousness of what we're seeing. You can see (the glacier) facilitate to climate change."
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Funded by private, corporate and Greek government donors, the event will bring together scientists and religious leaders to address major environmental issues, and ways in which humanity can deal with them, Ashcerson said. The seventh RSE symposium, this year's will focus on climate change in the Arctic.
"I think this will be a great moment," Cardinal Thomas McCarrick told ABC News about the prayer from Washington, D.C., on his way to Greenland.
McCarrick was sent by the Pope to represent the Catholic Church.
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Training vessel 'Gorch Fock' used by the German navy, sails past an enormous iceberg in Newfoundland's Gulf of Saint Lawrence in this August 7, 2007 handout photo. The ship is scheduled to visit a number of Canadian and US cities and due to return to Germany December 21, 2007. Picture taken August 7.
A protestor looks on during a demonstration Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007, in downtown Sydney, Australia. Thousands gathered to march against the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit and other issues such as global warming and the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)
A woman standing in a fountain holds a sign urging a stop to the Iraq War Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007 in Sydney, Australia. Nine people were arrested and two police officers were injured Saturday as thousands of mostly peaceful protesters turned out with a hodgepodge of issues, from the Iraq war to gay rights and global warming, waving banners emblazoned with union logos and slogans against visiting U.S. President George W. Bush and Australian Prime Minister John Howard. (AP Photo/Ed Wray)
Close up of a melting glacier. Burning fossil fuels could postpone the next ice age by up to half a million years, researchers at a British university said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Jorge Vinueza)
A Myanmese mother looks out from the window of a flooded makeshift hut along with her children in the village of Athok, some 160 kilometers west of Yangon, 17 August 2007. Global warming may carry a higher risk of flooding than previously thought, according to a study released on Wednesday by the British science journal Nature.(AFP/File/Khin Maung Win)
Chief U.S. climate negotiator Harlan Watson smiles at a news conference on the occasion of the latest round of talks on global warming on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007, at the Austria Center in Vienna. The United States and Europe share significant common ground on how to tackle global warming, Watson said Wednesday, deflecting criticism over Washington's perceived go-it-alone stance. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
....creating a HUGE Carbon Footprint to achieve their futile act..
Human sacrifice. That’s how you appease the gods.
The only thing missing is the native rain dancers and medicine men.
In 10 years when we’re all scared about the next ice age, they’ll be back praying FOR global warming. Sons of Adam are never satisfied.
Guys, mankind is not the audience for a prayer.
“climate negotiator”
You know, I missed that. I’m sure it’s a highly paid position filled by some politician’s brother or cousin. How that person negotiates with the climate is beyond me.
Dear God, Please protect me from your idiot followers...
And your outside temperature right this minute was locked at that number FOREVER?
No more seasons
No more highs
No more lows
No more nothing. Because despite the lunatic Socialists on the left, the climate is ALWAYS changing ALL AROUND THE WORLD and even around the universe. Mars' temperature is changing too and they will find it DAMNED difficult to blame that on man/capitalism/industrialization.
well, since “climate change” (formerly known as “global warming”) is an article of faith, this is a most appropriate exercise for its believers.
So burning fossil fuels is PREVENTING climate change?
Wait THIS IS BIG NEWS!
FTA: "Burning fossil fuels could postpone the next ice age by up to half a million years, researchers at a British university said Wednesday."
Like that's a bad thing?
Now it’s on to the beach at the Bay of Fundy at low tide to do something about those nettlesome and dangerous tidal movements.
It is reported that they will be joined by one King Canute.
I don’t think he’s a “pagan fundamentalist.” I think he’s asking God to protect him from people who pray amiss. I could be wrong...JMO.
The only things missing are Pope Al Gore Junior and his Wicker Man.
The more it becomes clear to the American Voter that lunacy has no boundaries, in the end, the voter may notice his government has become of the asylum, for the asylum, by the asylum. At that point, change will almost certainly be assured! In a similar vein joining the asylum, FoxNews is currently discussing Algore’s impending presidency! or in FoxNews own words: “Gore is rational” (implying all others are not)!!!!!
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