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World’s Leading Scientific ‘Skeptics’ of Man-Caused Global Warming
Invite Public and Press to Open Events April 27 and 28 Just Outside the Vatican
The Heartland Institute is sending a team of climate scientists to Rome next week to inform Pope Francis of the truth about climate science: There is no global warming crisis!
Monday, April 27, 1:00 p.m. GMT +2 (7:00 a.m. ET)
Hotel Columbus
Via della Conciliazione
33 – 00193
Rome, Italy
A slate of independent scientists and policy experts offer a “prebuttal” to the Vatican’s April 28 “Climate Summit.”
Tuesday, April 28, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. GMT +2 (7:00 a.m. ET)
Palazzo Cardinal Cesi
Via della Conciliazione n. 51 (Piazza S.Pietro)
00193
Rome, Italy
Climate scientists and policy experts lay out a detailed case explaining why climate science does not justify the Holy See putting its faith in the work of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Both events are open to all press and the general public. Go to Heartland’s Vatican Environment Workshop page for real-time updates, presentations, and podcasts.
For more information, please contact Jim Lakely at jlakely@heartland.org (preferred) or 312/731-9364 (in Rome beginning Monday, April 27) or Gene Koprowski at gkoprowski@heartland.org or (office) 312/377-4000 or (cell) 312/852-2517 (in Chicago).
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Tuesday, April 28 is hosting a workshop titled “Protect the Earth, Dignify Humanity” to “raise awareness and build a consensus” among people of faith that human activity is causing catastrophic global warming. The Heartland Institute – the world’s leading think tank promoting scientific skepticism about man-caused global warming – is bringing real scientists to Rome next week to dissuade Pope Francis from lending his moral authority to the politicized and unscientific climate agenda of the United Nations.
The Vatican’s summit features two men – Ban Ki-Moon, secretary-general of the United Nations, and Harvard economist Jeffrey Sachs – who refuse to acknowledge the abundant data showing human greenhouse gas emissions are not causing a climate crisis and there is no need for a radical reordering of global economies that will cause massive reductions in human freedom and prosperity.
Heartland’s experts will send this message to Pope Francis: Please do not put the enormous weight of your moral authority behind the discredited and scandal-prone United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Instead, speak out for the poor and disadvantaged of the world who need affordable and reliable energy to escape grinding poverty.
“The Holy Father is being misled by ‘experts’ at the United Nations who have proven unworthy of his trust,” said Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast. “Humans are not causing a climate crisis on God’s Green Earth – in fact, they are fulfilling their Biblical duty to protect and use it for the benefit of humanity. Though Pope Francis’s heart is surely in the right place, he would do his flock and the world a disservice by putting his moral authority behind the United Nations’ unscientific agenda on the climate.
“People of all faiths have a moral calling to continually seek the truth,” Bast said. “That is why Heartland is sending a contingent of real scientists to Rome next week. We are bringing the Vatican a message of truth for all with open ears: The science is not settled, and global warming is not a crisis. The world’s poor will suffer horribly if reliable energy – the engine of prosperity and a better life – is made more expensive and less reliable by the decree of global planners.”
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Absolutely devastating. I hope the journos catch on.
It’s worth a try but it’s faint hope, most Catholics around the world are climate alarmists, so I expect he’ll stick with what the majority of his flock believe.
The pope, and by extension the Catholic Church are a perfect example of the phrase “useful idiot(s). They have no clue that the bandwagon they have jumped onto, far from being a force for good, is in fact just the opposite. Good luck to Heartland in their venture, and I applaud them for trying, but I doubt they will have much success.
My Catholic sister-in-law thinks I’m nuts to even question Global Warming.
It’s not as if ‘impending doom’ has never been used as a motivator by various religions.
I have Atheist engineers at work that think I’m nuts for questioning the AGW meme… even when they are provided data to refute it.
It is about money….forget the science. This was and alway s
Will be about money and power. The pope will not loolk past the $ sign. Btw I am catholic and a complete denier.
It is true that one of the Pope’s senior advisors is Cardinal George Pell. He wrote an excellent article several years ago where he shows that he is well aware that cAGW is a religion and simply false. Although not a Catholic(or a follower of any set religion) , my respect for the man went up substantially. For a cloistered man of the cloth, he showed worldliness. Saw him in the street about a year ago-unfortunately I was talking with some other people and did not want to be rude. If there is a next time, I will make sure I do greet him and congratulate him on his wise stance. Also have to find out the correct way to address a cardinal. Being in to astronomy, I had better not say “Your Prominence.”
Getting back to the Pope’s insane stance on climate change-he is a Jesuit-the first Jesuit Pope. Jesuits have a deep-seated hatred of the Catholic church(said to stem back to the Vatican’s deceiving the Templars) and this treasonous Pope could be a centuries old payback. Perhaps the Pope did not get along with George Pell. I do remember being most pleased when I read that George was becoming a senior advisor.
I wish the Heartland Institute luck. They should go in with George Pell in support.
I just heard a radio program yesterday about how in the 1930s Mussolini conspired with the pope at the time with the goal of ending democracy and the separation of church and state, bringing the church back to its former status and power. Now it’s the UN. Sounds like New World Order goals to me.
It would have been easy for the Vatican to oppose Fascism. It’s not like the Vatican was surrounded by millions of armed Fascists. Oh. Wait. Never mind.
The story about Serbia, Croatia, Italy and the Third Reich is detailed in the book ‘Hitler’s Pope’. The Pope was not so much interested in the topics markopanama mentions as he was in getting the government’s to agree that Bishops (national figures) were to be appointed by Rome, not elected within the country. Plus XII worked for decades to achieve this with a concordat with each leader. That leader’s politics was not as important as the concordat. In the case of Hitler, the final agreement was never signed.
It is not reasonable to lump one man’s ambitions with that of a Church, whoever he is. It’s a bit too convenient.
Thank God for those independent scientists funded by the Heartland Institute.
Good on the Heartland Institute to try, but organised religion has long ago decided to worship Gaia. There’s just too much money exchanging hands in the temple.
https://thepointman.wordpress.com/2014/10/02/tell-me-why/
Pointman
I only hope Heartland Institute send someone who can speak the Pope native language.
Since the Pope will not be attending this event, I doubt that language will be a determining factor in the outcome.
Does this finally signal the pro-active phase of climate skepticism? Fighting climate religiosity by enlightening religious leaders. May Gaia speed and bless this noble quest to protect the papacy from false idols. GK
I can’t find the names of the “scientists” who are heading uninvited to hang out near the Vatican. Can anyone help?
You are beyond help.
Utterly predictable that talking point regurgitators like commenter “Sir Harry Flashman” show up here, oblivious to how their beloved AGW leaders – Al Gore, Bill McKibben, Naomi Oreskes, Leonardi DiCaprio, John Kerry, and dare I say it, Pope Francis – are not scientists. Speaks volumes for that side when all they have are diversionary talking points instead of any sort of willingness to engage in scientific debate.
I thought it was weird that no scientists were mentioned, but then I remembered that all scientists are evil.
Just waiting for the outraged letter campaign directed at the Vatican demanding that the pope be sacked for speaking to Heartland.
The Catholic Church stands at a cross roads. Will it once again become a tool of the State, to raise taxes on the poor, only this time on a global scale?
“Our Lady of blessed acceleration don’t fail us now”…..Elwood
I’m skeptical becasue the South American church was heavily influenced by liberation theology which was nothing more than Marxism given theological language. So I don’t know how effective Heartland will be given the U.N.climate ideology is Marxism given pseudo scientific language . Hopefully it will turn out well.
Speaking with religious heads to dissuade or persuade them of anything factual or philosophical is evidence that the speaker also may not know his head from his a**.
Now before you throw rotten tomatoes on me, this venture probably has other good benefits, such as world stage publicity and eyes on their presentation. I seriously doubt this panel believes they will affect the Pope’s mindset.
Quite so. But, if the Pope gets to grandstand with the world’s mass media breathlessly reporting his every holy utterance, skeptics must seize the opportunity to counter the infallible nonsense with a few facts,. which by chance alone must fall on a few ears of those enormous throngs of faithful Catholics virtually gathered at the papal feet, even if the Pope himself is not fazed.
Why? Let him do. The doomsday market is saturated nowadays. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_21st-century_religious_leaders. Competition for the remaining faithful souls requires prioritization sooner or later.
it’s kind of a strange concept. Asking a religion to look at the evidence that another newer religion that is not scientifically valid.
For what it’s worth, the Catholic Church’s official position is that it accepts the fact of Evolution by natural selection. That sets it apart from every other major religion. I’m with the commenters who say “Who cares what the Pope thinks about anything?” But it might offer a sliver of possibility that someone in that vast, misguided hierarchy might be amenable to hearing, and capable of understanding, actual science…
This is the beginning of the major backdown from AGW from the climate science establishment http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/14243/20150422/global-warming-progressing-slower-than-we-thought.htm
expect to see this for years to come from “Nature” until its “disappeared”
Of course it will not be admitted ever.
No. When has this environmental political movement ever admitted to or apologized for unethical science or reporting to further a cause? They are the good guys so they get a get out of jail free card. Meanwhile how is Wille Soon doing?
Thanks, Eliza. They even say: “So to better and more accurately understand the future of global warming, a team at Duke University relied on empirical data, rather than the more commonly used climate models, to estimate decade-to-decade variability.”
But, having said that, they go on as expected from “Nature”:
“However, it should be noted that these results do not suggest that global warming is letting up, and that this rate of warming will remain steady in coming years. Warming could very much increase in the years to come.”
I hope the Heartland Institute will point out how this so-called “hiatus” strongly suggests a very low climate sensitivity, as opposed to the high sensitivities used in the IPCC models.
Hundreds of millions a year are being raked in by “environmentalists”. The Pope wants in.
Can we anticipate a mass-excommunication of ‘deniers’?
Glad to hear this! I am going to email them some encouragement.