Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Vatican climate spokesman Cardinal Peter Turkson has just warned President Trump that if he doesn’t reverse his position on Climate Change, the USA risks losing “climate leadership” to China.
Vatican says Trump risks losing climate change leadership to China
By Philip Pullella | ROME
The Vatican urged U.S. President Donald Trump to listen to “dissenting voices” and reconsider his position on climate change
Pope Francis has made defense of the environment a key plank of his papacy, strongly backing scientific opinion that global warming is caused mostly by human activity.
“This is a challenge for us,” said Cardinal Peter Turkson, the pope’s point man for the environmental, immigration and development, when asked about Trump’s executive order dismantling Obama-era climate change regulations and his immigration policies.
“Fortunately, in the United States, there are dissenting voices, people who are against Trump’s positions,” said Turkson, who is from Ghana and was one of the driving forces behind the pope’s 2015 encyclical letter on environmental protection.
“This, for us, is a sign that little by little, other positions and political voices will emerge and so we hope that Trump himself will reconsider some of his decisions,” Turkson told reporters at a breakfast meeting.
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China, which had fought attempts by foreign governments to limit carbon emissions in the past, has become a strong proponent of efforts to halt global warming.
“While Trump is moving in the opposite direction, there is another great power in the world, China, which is showing different signs, as if America is creating a vacuum that China is filling,” Turkson said.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-trump-vatican-idUSKBN1711TV
Frankly it is obscene for the Vatican to promote China in this way. One of those “different signs” China has been showing lately is a renewal of its brutal crackdown on Chinese Christians. The crackdown has included the large scale demolition of Christian icons, and the arrest of at least one Vatican appointed priest, coadjutor bishop of Wenzhou, Msgr. Peter Shao Zhumin, while he was helping to prepare the funeral of his predecessor.
If Vatican climate spokesman Cardinal Peter Turkson is somehow not aware of these outrages, perhaps he has also not received the latest memo about Chinese climate leadership.
China has just insisted they don’t want “climate leadership”, presumably because the Chinese understand that “leadership” is greenspeak for “pay the bills”.
The climate has changed. It has improved. Why the denial?
Is this the same Pope that invited Muslims to live in the Vatican?
A full disclosure of where, and in what the various Pension Funds in the Papacy are invested might give a clue to the Pope’s enthusiasm for the CAGW cult.
“. . . pension funds might give a clue . . .”
Whoever controls the Vatican Bank and world’s central banks might also be worth a peek . . .
I wonder how widely Cardinal Turkson has read and understood the literature on climate and what his understanding of basic science is?
The Vatican also reacted when Luther criticised them for trading absolution.
WUWT is that the Catholic Church is big in Africa (and they are losing in the 1st World). Africa (their crim UN delegates and leaders anyway) benefits from the crazy climate change money.
That’s why the Pope is going this way. It is all about money. Just like it always has been.
No mention of windelecs on the Vatican site map.
I am Catholic. This Jesuit pope is an embarrassment. His theology is as perverse as his scientism; one might say pope-a-dope. The deep faith will survive this chastisement. It reveals how few ‘princes’ of the Church are truly men of faith.
I am also Catholic. So far none of the Pope’s “teachings” have been put forth as dogma. So his socialist ravings have no authority within the faith. I guess he does not recall St. Paul’s admonishment to the Thessalonians, “For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat.” Or perhaps his history education is lacking since socialism has not worked anywhere historically. Not the first time there has been a misguided pope by any means. His message of tolerance, on the other hand, may be good for us who are conservative to a fault. He is certainly proof that life experiences mold us into what we become to a large degree.
I agree. Dwelling on his misguidance by human advisors is wasted time compared to looking optimistically at his ministry of worldwide tolerance and Christian agape.
That said, I pray that he will cease to be used as a useful idiot by the global socialists.
The climate should be left in the hands of the Vatican . The church is specialised in answering questions about unknown phenomena. The IPCC transferred to Rome.
+100
“Frankly it is obscene for the Vatican to promote China in this way. One of those “different signs” China has been showing lately is a renewal of its brutal crackdown on Chinese Christians. The crackdown has included the large scale demolition of Christian icons, and the arrest of at least one Vatican appointed priest, coadjutor bishop of Wenzhou, Msgr. Peter Shao Zhumin, while he was helping to prepare the funeral of his predecessor.”
The Chinese leadership has started putting video cameras in the churches so they can monitor them more closely.
“Pope Francis has made defense of the environment a key plank of his papacy, strongly backing scientific opinion that global warming is caused mostly by human activity.”
That’s not from the Bible, but perhaps Heinrich Kramer’s interpretation of it, as described in Malleus Maleficarum.
This is the first attempt of the Roman Catholic church (world’s oldest multinational) for product innovation!
Now they are directly competing with the environmentalists!
When it comes to science, the Pope is a dope.