Posted on 01/15/2015 7:34:11 PM PST by ebb tide
As the United States Senate prepares to vote on a non-binding resolution on whether or not manmade global warming exists, Pope Francis weighed in on the issue with his most extensive and forceful comments on the subject to date.
Let's just say that the pope is not aligned with many Senate Republicans, who doubt the reality and threat of manmade global warming, on this issue.
Speaking to reporters aboard his plane while flying to Manila from Sri Lanka, Pope Francis said the "majority" of global warming is manmade, which is a view that is consistent with mainstream climate-science findings.
I dont know if it is all [mans fault] but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature, he said, according to The Guardian.
His outspoken stance on climate change has encouraged debate within the Catholic community worldwide, as many people view the Earth as God's creation, and think it is arrogant to believe that humans could ever play such a dominant role over nature. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee chairman Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), an evangelical Christian, is one of the most prominent holders of this view.
We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, the pope said, according to The Guardian.
I think man has gone too far, he added. Thank God that today there are voices that are speaking out about this.
The pope plans to issue an encyclical in June that will lay out his views on climate change and other environmental issues in greater detail, ahead of a crucial global warming summit in Paris scheduled for this December. An encyclical is an official Papal document that is sent to all Catholic bishops around the world.
The Paris talks are supposed to result in a new global climate agreement for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that would enter into force in 2020.
The pope said he was "disappointed" by the most recent United Nations climate talks, which were held in Lima, Peru, last December. The talks proved particularly arduous, and had to be extended by two days, before diplomats agreed to a draft text to be negotiated in Paris.
The Peru meeting was nothing much; it disappointed me. I think there was a lack of courage. They stopped at a certain point. Lets hope the delegates in Paris will be more courageous and move forward with this, he told reporters.
Meanwhile, senators will have to go on record with their own views on climate science when they vote as early as Friday on a planned amendment that would force them to endorse or reject the existence of manmade global warming on climate change. At least two senators one Democrat and one Independent who caucuses with the Democrats plan to offer versions of amendments to that effect during debate on the Keystone XL Pipeline.
A similar vote took place in 2005, when a "Sense of the Senate" resolution was adopted. At that time, 12 Republicans joined Democrats to support the amendment, but there will likely be less Republican support this time, given the widespread rejection of global warming research findings among today's Republican leadership.
It has to do with what he declares. He has been declaring a lot of nonsense these days. If he makes some infallible declaration are you going to accept it as doctrine from God, or are you willing to accept the fact that he just may be a poeser as the Vicar of Christ?
And Francis is qualified to give his opinion on this because........? What physics department did he study in?
Isaiah 42:8
“I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.”
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Gaia/Mother Earth is a fully pagan concept. The false religion of Environmentalism.
“...A mother goddess is a goddess who represents, or is a personification of nature, motherhood, fertility, creation, destruction or who embodies the bounty of the Earth. When equated with the Earth or the natural world, such goddesses are sometimes referred to as Mother Earth or as the Earth Mother....”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_goddess
I wonder what his picks for Oscar winner are this year.
You are IGNORANT.....get a clue about infallibilty before you spout your anti-Catholic bigotry.
Well there’s that and I fully expect the INQUISITION to resume shortly. The church set civilization back a thousand years last time. With a dumbass like this shooting his mouth off We should be back to the last ice age soon enough. The popester needs to clean up his own pedophile mess before screwing with the rest of us.
Wow. Pope Francis is also a scientist? Where did he get his degree? When does he have time to do scientific research? What scientific methods did he use to come to this astonishing conclusion?
Yes, but do you have to be Catholic to elect a Pope?
Is there any way we can trade this Pope in for a new Pope that knows when to STFU?
I.Q.
Pope = box of rocks
And how many of those would be "true Scotsmen"? The description sounds a bit Scottish...
About half of American [Roman] Catholics vote for the climate ninny, chicken little support apparatus, otherwise known as the Democrat Party. (the apparatus supports ninnys and chickens -- not the sky).
So much for "well taught".
Evangelicals, even those who are merely descended from Scotsmen (some of whom now live in Appalachian mobile home parks) are apparently blessed with superior political instincts.
Not all of the so-called "Protestants" could be regarded as Evangelical though. The 8-12% who consistently vote for the Wrong Party are generally not Evangelical.
(I always wondered why, from when I was just a wee lad, the high- church Episcopalian types seemed like foreigners is some way...now I understand a little better as for that "why". Some of them actually like movies such as Rocky Horror Picture Show. I mean, reaaly like it.)
Now if we could just do something about the prosperity-gospel, stealth cargo-cultists on the t.v., and tamp down the big hair crowd (send a few of them through good 'ol automated car-warshes to scrub off the layers of pancake make-up, while we'd be doing this tamping down thing) then as we [ahem] 'progress' along the pathways of The Fall of the Roman Empire, Part Deux, we all, as Americans, could hold our heads up a little higher (fwiw -- which if the whole things crashes, the overall "worth" would be---> not much).
Infallible my ass.
Never fails: make an insightful comment people don’t like and they want you shut down, calling you names.
You should listen to your critics - they just might be right.
Don’t have to go very far through this thread to see that there are a lot of bigots here on FR making the Democrat claims appear to be true.
The devil is just getting things warmed up for what’s to come.
Re: a pope helping Nazis
That was all nonsense. Pius 12 saved thousands of Jews and took countless risks to oppose Hitler. Beware of false history; a favorite tool of evil.
As for Caths who endorse various stupidities in the Democratic platform --- or who go along with the inanities of certain top House Republicans -- they can't support that by catechism, nor are such subjects within the scope of the pope's competence.
But your remarks are well-meant and smilingly received.
As for the Protestant cargo cults and their wives with the big hair...
Neither is diplomacy.
But please undersand that it's papal idiocy and error which makes Infallibiloty so important, for it merely makes the guarantee that erroneous papal opinions (and he's go a bunch of them) will not become binding as part of doctrine.
It works only negatively: it is pretty satisfactorily explained by the following video from the Bad Catholics Bingo Hall (YouTube) which shows a curious connection between papal error and myocardial infarction.
(For your viewing pleasure. I will not mind of you laugh out loud.)
Actually, not.
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