From an email forwarded from Matt Briggs
The Realist Catholic Climate Declaration is now live at: https://realclimate.wixsite.com/declaration
A copy is also given below.
Those wanting to sign should send an email with their name and affiliation (if any) to: realist.climate.declaration@protonmail.com
Please share this as widely as possible. With the concept of “eco-sins” being bruited, and the return of paganism, this declaration is timely and important.
Thanks to the many people who contributed ideas and edits.
The Declaration
The Magisterium of the Catholic Church makes no mention of earth’s optimal climate, or the best rate of change of the climate, nor should it. Neither optimum is known to anybody.
The earth’s climate has always changed, is changing now, and will never cease changing. The extent to which man is responsible for climate change is not known, only surmised. There is no earthly force capable of stopping climate change.
Extreme caution, even skepticism, is warranted in any statement about the climate given the decades of failed and overreaching forecasts and hyperbole from official and interested sources. Beyond individual prudent stewardship, no Catholic is obliged to support any environmental measure.
The salvation of souls is of more pressing concern than the air temperature. Pray to God and pray for your neighbor, not to the planet.
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Matt Briggs has stated that one need not be a Catholic to sign.
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George Carlin said this a while ago… caution – he uses the F-word. I prefer to think it is spelled with a PH instead of an F…
Joseppe
George was utterly brilliant lol Straight to the point, and truthful. If he said is today, he would be talking about XR lololol
I predict a lot more climate alarmism statements by the Pope in coming days to distract again from corruption news.
https://news.yahoo.com/popes-bodyguard-resigns-over-financial-132403706.html
The following is taken from an article in Crux Now.
Catholics should admit their crimes against nature in confession, according to one prelate at the Vatican’s ongoing summit for the Amazon region.
“The ecological situation today is a motive for division, but people cannot but take into consideration the importance the environment has for us,” said Archbishop Pedro Brito Guimarães, of Palmas, Brazil, on Friday. “Ecological sins. It’s a new word for us, also for the Church, but people don’t confess the sins we commit against nature.”
https://cruxnow.com/amazon-synod/2019/10/11/archbishop-at-amazon-synod-admit-sins-against-nature-during-confession/
I wonder what the Archbishop thinks about flying more than 5,000 miles in order to attend the Synod? Is he considering saying anything about that in his next Confession? Or are these ‘crimes against nature’ just for us ordinary members of the Church?
Climate Change is just a diversion from the real issue which is Jihad and the Muslim Invasion. Sharia Law will be worse for the World than any Climate Change effects.
Au contraire!
Obviously, an optimal climate is before Adam and Eve partook of the forbidden fruit, knowledge.
Back when they didn’t need to wear clothes during every season of the year.
Definitely when it was warmer than today.
‘And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day,’ … that would be the sun.
‘Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet’ … that’s us.
Caution is suggested. The Realist Catholic Climate Declaration does not appear to conform to the actual climate dogma of the Roman Catholic Church (however nice it would be if it did):
https://catholicclimatecovenant.org/catholic-climate-declaration-FAQs
I got curious when I went-in looking for the originator of the piece, knowing what the Pope has said several times about climate and climate change. I couldn’t find an official Catholic position supporting this, sadly. Where did it come from?
Y. Knott,
Your question puzzles me. Are you suggesting that Pope France’s encyclical Laudato Si was something that any of us practising Catholics could treat with anything but derision?
I understand this petition/statement to represent the views of (mainly) sensible Catholics who studied basic science in primary school telling us that carbon dioxide when combined with sunlight and water causes food to grow and keep this wonderful world green by photosynthesis.
Do you have a problem with that, or do you subscribe to genocide which will accrue from the climate cult which our holy father adheres to
It doesn’t sound like I’m the one with a problem here.