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.
“This may offend Catholics, but the Pope has no idea what hes talking about and he seems to be nothing but a left-wing propagandist.”
I’m one and I agree with you 100%.
If he’s not speaking ex-cathedra, his opinion is no better than anyone else’s.
This Pope’s life was in Argentina where his experiences go from Peron to the latest woman imbecile.
He should stick to saving souls, not planets. There is sure no shortage of candidates for that in this world.
Genesis 1:28
“God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it;”
The Pope needs to re-read it.
Not really. But you'd better be a community organizer and have an opinion on every technical and scientific subject even before the science itself knows the answer.
I was raised Catholic and your words are 100% correct.
The day his named was announced as the new pope I flipped out when I learned he was a Jesuit, because I knew he would be spouting Marxist talking points.
I miss Pope Benedict.
Translation: It is all in their heads and made up
He’s from Venezuela. He should have played pro baseball instead.
Lighten up francis.
If this delusional nonsense makes it into the encyclical, Francis will go down as the worst abuser of his office in centuries. A whole encyclical based on an empirically provable hoax. That will be a first.
Frankly, let him do it. The more thoroughly he makes a public fool of himself, the less harm he can do to the Church.
What you said doesn’t offend me. The temperature of the Earth is no part of the teaching of the Catholic Church. The Pope has no authority to pontificate about it.
On top of that, he is provably WRONG. The Earth has been cooling for 18 years and 4 months.
He is promoting a hoax. It appears he will promote policies that are DESIGNED to kill AT LEAST a billion people, starting with the poorest, by denying them energy and food.
This pope is God’s chastisement of Catholics for our sinful behavior.
I know you hate to hear this, but the problem of priests’ abusing minors has been eradicated. Check out the statistics.
I don’t give the bishops any credit. They started to act only when threatened by the press and massive lawsuits.
That’s why they do nothing about Nancy Pelosi, Andrew Cuomo, Joe Biden, John Kerry, etc. Nobody is threatening them with lawsuits over giving Communion to these apostates.
Thank you for sharing your deep research in Jack Chick comics!
Bless you my son, and your CA airguns.
I would change sprinkling to full immersion.
‘Celibate’ really means ‘celebrate’.
All nuns would be hotties ... to start.
How soon before I hear? I could really use the dough.
The Earth is also the center of the universe. And flat.
Catholics are not compelled to believe or follow Pope Francis on this issue.
He is just plain WRONG!
He needs to spend an hour with a “scientist” who is NOT a propagandist.
Oh....and another hour with a similarly gifted economist.
This may offend Catholics, but the Pope has no idea what hes talking about and he seems to be nothing but a left-wing propagandist.
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I ditto that! Just shows that liberal progressive idiocy can exist in the “president” of the Catholics as well as the “president” of the US.
They ignore factual scientific data and base their ignorant views on purposefully flawed data pushed by the UN and so-called scientists. ....There’s been NO global warming for over 18 years!!! Climate change is natural.
You don’t need to be Catholic to be elected Pope.
To take the job, however, you would need to be baptized (or confirmed as a Catholic if already baptized), ordained deacon, then priest, then bishop, because the Pope has to be the Bishop of Rome.
I think sometimes the Cardinals think they’re on the Board of a Fortune 500 instead of Christ’s Church.
Where was he sitting when he said this?
This is a very significant point.
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