Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The objective has been set, now up to the engineers to deliver.
Climate change: Pope urges action on clean energy
9 June 2018
Pope Francis has said climate change is a challenge of “epochal proportions” and that the world must convert to clean fuel.
“Civilisation requires energy, but energy use must not destroy civilisation,” he said.
He was speaking to a group of oil company executives at the end of a two-day conference in the Vatican.
Modern society with its “massive movement of information, persons and things requires an immense supply of energy”, he told the gathering.
“But that energy should also be clean, by a reduction in the systematic use of fossil fuels,” he said.
“Our desire to ensure energy for all must not lead to the undesired effect of a spiral of extreme climate changes due to a catastrophic rise in global temperatures, harsher environments and increased levels of poverty.”
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44424572
The obvious response is you can have cheap, reliable energy or non-polluting energy, but not both.
But perhaps this is an opportunity. The Catholic Church has an awful lot of money, and the world is full of wildly implausible energy claims which few serious venture capitalists would consider, like E-cat cold fusion generators.
Skeptics like myself might think alternative energy ideas like Andrea Rossi’s E-cat claims are nonsense, but who knows? If Pope Francis wants the impossible, he needs to consider the extremely improbable, because just maybe somewhere out in the wilderness of wild ideas is an idea with real potential which we have all overlooked.
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Does the Vatican run on renewables? I missed the Dateline on that.
Seems to me that miracles are in the Pope’s domain.
How about he give science all the relics and gold so they can finance the impossible!!
If a Pope gathered the CEOs of Apple, Huawei, Samsung etc and told them of their moral duty to replace smartphones with something unspecified, but something which did the same thing as smartphones only better and cheaper, using less materials, what would the reaction be?
It’s incredible, isn’t it, that a meeting such as this should happen at all? I guess his position means that he can meet with anyone he likes, for any reason, as long as they are willing to meet with him. But these CEOs really ought to explain to their shareholders why they spend company time and resources attending on the opinions of such a person, and how it will help their company make more efficient use of the resources invested in it.
Maybe we can get him to turn CO2 into wine!
Just what does the Pope know about climate change other than what he has been told by the activists. Stick to religion and tending your flock.
This Pope is so manipulated by anti-science misanthropic kooks.
He spouts,word salad nostrums as if they are magic spells that will create solutions.
He has the guts to to talk down to an industry that directly employs millions of people in some of the best jobs in the world.
But nitice he is not talking to the oil ministers of the nations tgat actually control and produce the majority of oil.
Nor does he acknowledge the amazing good done by the oil industry.
What a cowardly mess this Pope is.
The Pope should worry about the souls of his flock. If he wants he shoudl get the Catholic Church to fund a few of the lesser known fusion projects such as EMC2. They don’t need much money to find out if they are viable.
‘Is the Pope Catholic?’ used to be a rhetorical question. Now, apparently, the answer is ‘no!’ He’s a ‘progressive’ member of the church of CAGW.
The Law of Supply and Demand tells us that the only way to assure anything is the cheapest it can be is to produce it under lots of competition [aka no monopolies] in a marketplace where all are free to buy/sell and freely own anything [also antithetical to monopolies]. Since the church is monopolistic in its must basic precepts and the Pope, born and raised a Communist, seems fundamentally unable to recognize this Law; the premise for the Pope’s demand is puzzling at best. As Spock would say “illogical”.
Is the Pope communist?
Does it matter?
Yes. Having a communist Pope is as bad as having a fascist or pedophike Pope.
All or corrupt and incompstible eith Christian service.
As a good socialist, Pope Francis will soon be running out of other people’s money. Pope Francis knows nothing about science, engineering or energy and so is ideally placed to pontificate on Global Warming and Climate Change.
Actually science is his field of study.
No, the Holy Father has a 2 year degree in food chemistry.
He is mostly educated as liberation thologian under the most polutical, least Catholic parts of the Catholic Church, the Jesuits.
The only command given by Jesus to his followers, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature”. (Mark 16:15) Nothing about meddling in the affairs of the world.
I think you will find Jesus was quite keen on looking after the poor.
And alliwing a group of musanthropic climate extremists to corrupt the Catholic Church helps the poor exactly how?
Looking after the poor and doing the job you are given are quite different. His climate change meddling helps the poor how? Cheap electricity, even produced by natural gas, would provide the power for clean water and waste disposal for the poor for starters.
This guy seems to be a real pope in the same way that Mikey Mann is a real scientist.
So, the Pope favors nuclear energy then.
‘Cause renewables won’t do the job, as determined by Google engineers back in 2014.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/what-it-would-really-take-to-reverse-climate-change
I think most commentators, like the Pope have missed the big picture. If we prayed to God to help us feed the growing population in the world. He would do exactly what we have recognized is happening – by allowing the Carbon Dioxide concentration to increase, he provides more food to help the plants grow bigger and faster and thus, more food for mankind. Despite the Pope’s best efforts, God’s plan will not be thwarted. “Man Proposes, God Disposes”.
“The Lord moves in mysterious ways, his wonders to perform!”
Feeding the poor…. and everyone else.
Fascinating insight.
+10
Thanks,
Must be desperate to get in with the trendies. Why? Worried about his traditional western supporter base declining to the point of threatening to fall off a cliff?
I think this guy has had way too many bus rides.
Popes should butt out from science. They should have learnt from Giordano Bruno and Galileo
One source of cheap, no-emission energy is nuclear power. It is gratifying that the Pope has called for greater use of nuclear power, and one hopes that the Roman Catholic Church will now do its level best to support all new nuclear installations.
One problem is that almost all buses are petrol or diesel powered. Electric buses are possible, but so far they are hardly economical. Much better is to replace diesel buses with trolleybuses on light demand routes, and by trams on route with high patronage. All suburban railways should be electrically powered, as should railways with high loads. Diesel power could be relegated to lightly loaded rotes.
As nuclear power stations are most efficient with near constant demand, they are very suitable for providing power to electric cars, and small vans overnight. In this way, most internal transport within cities can be nuclearly powered, and with a normal life of cars of 10 to 15 years, within 15 years most petrol and diesel vehicles will have vanished from out cities.
It does not matter that the whole climate change/global warming scam is based on faulty science and bad reasoning; at least the above program will clean the air in our cities which is better than anything one can do to mitigate global warming.
I am ready and willing to follow you your esteemed Papalness. But would you mind leading by example first? Maybe by travelling back to Argentina under sail.
The lure of seemingly safe (unverifiable) topics like climate change is strong. The dark side comes when it is used as a deflection from hard issues like sex crime investigations.
With great respect to my leader, would he please butt out of things he knows nothing about and stop listening to fanatics like Schellnhuber? His predecessors at least had the wit to avoid entanglement in highly controversial matters which at the very best could only be described as “tangential” to his job description of saving souls and encouraging his flock along the road to the eternal Promised Land.
It also strikes me as somewhat lacking in faith to imagine that God made such a hash of creating this planet that his noblest creation could destroy it as easily as the eco-warriors would have us believe.
I appreciate I am probably in a minority on here but I would have thought that anyone with any sort of faith in a powerful deity would be highly sceptical of the idea that mankind is capable of destroying the earth by allowing an increase of an essential trace gas from 0.03% of the atmosphere to 0.04%! And that’s before we even start in the science!
At least he is proving that his infallibility is strictly limited to matters of faith and morals!
The Red Pope. Maybe they could power all their wind machines with his hot air.
Who is the PR consulting firm advising this and what is the strategy?
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