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Pope Francis says global warming is 'mostly manmade'
Mashable ^ | 1/15/15 | Andrew Freedman

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 don’t know if it is all [man’s 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. Let’s 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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: algoreisnotmygod; climate; fascism; fascist; francis; globalwarminghoax; globalwarmingscare; popefrancis; romancatholicism; thegreenmenace; wingnut
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To: ebb tide

I wonder what the Vegas odds are that “Pope” Francis is the False Prophet?


21 posted on 01/15/2015 7:47:28 PM PST by getarope (Jesus is coming soon, and boy is he PISSED!)
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To: ebb tide; Tzimisce

>> “So you think Jesus Christ was only a man?” <<

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Stupid strawman.

Catholicism has nothing to do with Jesus Christ.

Catholicism is sun god/goddess worship through the demon that poses as “Mary” to the lost souls that pray to him.


22 posted on 01/15/2015 7:47:53 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: ebb tide

You know what they say about opinions and a$$ holes...


23 posted on 01/15/2015 7:48:15 PM PST by babygene
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To: getarope

Too much of a sure thing to get any bets.

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24 posted on 01/15/2015 7:48:51 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: plain talk

I don’t think God has anything to do with who is Pope.


25 posted on 01/15/2015 7:49:11 PM PST by GeronL
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To: ebb tide

From President Reagan to President Obama, from Pope John Paul II to Pope Francis


26 posted on 01/15/2015 7:49:32 PM PST by vbmoneyspender (But of course)
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To: Alberta's Child

Right on the mark.


27 posted on 01/15/2015 7:50:04 PM PST by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: Batman11

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>> “The Pope needs to spend less time on global warming and more time stopping his priests from grabbing little boy’s weiners” <<

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That’s Groinal Warming.

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28 posted on 01/15/2015 7:50:41 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: TBP
This may offend Catholics, but the Pope has no idea what he’s talking about and he seems to be nothing but a left-wing propagandist.

We are not offended. We realize, at least some of us, that the same disease that has infected the Whitehouse and Congress has infected that institution as well.

29 posted on 01/15/2015 7:50:49 PM PST by Parmy
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To: ebb tide

Is this Pope even Catholic? He sounds more like a pagan Gaia worshipped. Shudder.

/a Catholic


30 posted on 01/15/2015 7:50:56 PM PST by piytar (No government has ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason.)
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To: ebb tide
So you think Jesus Christ was only a man?

Yes.

But even if he wasn't, I doubt he'd approve of some of things the Church is doing in his name.
31 posted on 01/15/2015 7:51:27 PM PST by Tzimisce
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To: ebb tide

Is this Pope concerned at all with leading people to salvation?


32 posted on 01/15/2015 7:52:57 PM PST by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
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To: ebb tide

Manmade ,like Religion ?


33 posted on 01/15/2015 7:53:02 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Kickass Conservative

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The CEO of Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse will soon be coming out as a Vegan.
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34 posted on 01/15/2015 7:53:44 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: TBP
As a Catholic, I find your comment regarding this pope highly offensive accurate.

(BTW if you can't see the strike through and bolding on your device, offensive is stricken through and accurate is bolded.)

35 posted on 01/15/2015 7:55:31 PM PST by piytar (No government has ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason.)
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To: ebb tide

“I don’t know if it is all [man’s fault] but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature,” he said, according to The Guardian. “

How scientific.


36 posted on 01/15/2015 7:55:38 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: Tzimisce; editor-surveyor

Hey editor, it looks like Tzimisce agrees with you:

Jesus was only a man.


37 posted on 01/15/2015 7:56:19 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: GeronL

My first clue came early... The priest says, “Your sins are forgiven my son...” Huh? What do I need Jesus for then?


38 posted on 01/15/2015 7:56:40 PM PST by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
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To: editor-surveyor

Wow. Possibly the most ignorant post I have ever seen on Free Republic.


39 posted on 01/15/2015 7:57:25 PM PST by piytar (No government has ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason.)
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To: GeronL

Close. I don’t think this pope has anything to do with God.


40 posted on 01/15/2015 7:59:05 PM PST by piytar (No government has ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason.)
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