Essay by Eric Worrall
“It continues to be regrettable that global crises are being squandered when they could be the occasions to bring about beneficial changes.” – but ceding national sovereignty might help.
APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION
LAUDATE DEUM
OF THE HOLY FATHER
FRANCISTO ALL PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL
ON THE CLIMATE CRISIS…
2. Eight years have passed since I published the Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’, when I wanted to share with all of you, my brothers and sisters of our suffering planet, my heartfelt concerns about the care of our common home. Yet, with the passage of time, I have realized that our responses have not been adequate, while the world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point. In addition to this possibility, it is indubitable that the impact of climate change will increasingly prejudice the lives and families of many persons. We will feel its effects in the areas of healthcare, sources of employment, access to resources, housing, forced migrations, etc.
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6. In recent years, some have chosen to deride these facts. They bring up allegedly solid scientific data, like the fact that the planet has always had, and will have, periods of cooling and warming. They forget to mention another relevant datum: that what we are presently experiencing is an unusual acceleration of warming, at such a speed that it will take only one generation – not centuries or millennia – in order to verify it. The rise in the sea level and the melting of glaciers can be easily perceived by an individual in his or her lifetime, and probably in a few years many populations will have to move their homes because of these facts.
7. In order to ridicule those who speak of global warming, it is pointed out that intermittent periods of extreme cold regularly occur. One fails to mention that this and other extraordinary symptoms are nothing but diverse alternative expressions of the same cause: the global imbalance that is provoking the warming of the planet. Droughts and floods, the dried-up lakes, communities swept away by seaquakes and flooding ultimately have the same origin. At the same time, if we speak of a global phenomenon, we cannot confuse this with sporadic events explained in good part by local factors.
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11. It is no longer possible to doubt the human – “anthropic” – origin of climate change. Let us see why. The concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which causes global warming, was stable until the nineteenth century, below 300 parts per million in volume. But in the middle of that century, in conjunction with industrial development, emissions began to increase. In the past fifty years, this increase has accelerated significantly, as the Mauna Loa observatory, which has taken daily measurements of carbon dioxide since 1958, has confirmed. While I was writing Laudato Si’, they hit a historic high – 400 parts per million – until arriving at 423 parts per million in June 2023. [7] More than 42% of total net emissions since the year 1850 were produced after 1990. [8]
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19. Finally, we can add that the Covid-19 pandemic brought out the close relation of human life with that of other living beings and with the natural environment. But in a special way, it confirmed that what happens in one part of the world has repercussions on the entire planet. This allows me to reiterate two convictions that I repeat over and over again: “Everything is connected” and “No one is saved alone”.
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36. It continues to be regrettable that global crises are being squandered when they could be the occasions to bring about beneficial changes. [28] This is what happened in the 2007-2008 financial crisis and again in the Covid-19 crisis. For “the actual strategies developed worldwide in the wake of [those crises] fostered greater individualism, less integration and increased freedom for the truly powerful, who always find a way to escape unscathed”. [29]
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43. All this presupposes the development of a new procedure for decision-making and legitimizing those decisions, since the one put in place several decades ago is not sufficient nor does it appear effective. In this framework, there would necessarily be required spaces for conversation, consultation, arbitration, conflict resolution and supervision, and, in the end, a sort of increased “democratization” in the global context, so that the various situations can be expressed and included. It is no longer helpful for us to support institutions in order to preserve the rights of the more powerful without caring for those of all.
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Read more: https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/20231004-laudate-deum.html
A sort of increased democratization implies ceding national sovereignty to international institutions – which the Pope proposes should be advanced on the back of “occasions” presented by global crisis.
Remind me, weren’t there a few problems, last time the Catholic Church told us which scientific theories to believe in?
Future generations will look back on this embarrassing Papal attempt to propagate scientific ignorance, much as we look back on the embarrassing efforts of the Catholic Church to suppress the theories of Galileo.
Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions. – Terry Pratchett.
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Religion and politics should always be kept well apart. Remember The Inqiusition…?
This is Inquisition II
We have to give it a name. Something other than a number.
“inquisition
noun
The name works except for the “investigation” part. There is no questioning and answering involved as “investigation” implies except to find and cancel the “heretics”.
“The Prisoner”
“I am not a number!”
Great opening to The Prisoner:
Who are you?
The new number 2.
Who is number 1?
You are number 6.
I am not a number!
The ratocracy?
The madness
The Green Plague?
I would go with the Green Inquisition.
Unlike the Spanish Inquisition, this one is expected.
Some things never change. The pope has declared that all we anti-climate change people are Galileo. He needs a renewed group of villains and heretics to increase his power.
Francis says you’ll be free by submitting to his globalists friends.
This pope has been on the globalists team for a while. Why? How does it benefit him or the RC church? Don’t trust any of ’em.
The globe will be run by the Catholic Church…guess who gets all the power???
Don’ you think it very inclusive of him to go along with CCP’s rewriting of the Bible?
Yeah … Who elected him Pope anyway???
Bunch of Stuffy Old White Guys In Red Dresses that’s who
Cui bono
Follow the money ——> —–> investments in solar — wind — etc….
For example:
Re: Roman Catholic Church investment:
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AES[, a utility whose goals] include a strategy to bring global carbon emissions down ..,
(Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brettowens/2017/07/15/the-catholic-churchs-top-5-dividend-stocks/?sh=6bafab99507f )
As in “Arbeit macht frei”?
The pope is ignoring his own sacred writings: “While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” Genesis 8:22 KJV
This pope seems to be more a Marxist than a Catholic! True, it is only cultural Marxism, not the more deadly economic kind; but one has to wonder if, over time, this current iteration of Uncle Karl’s religious phantasm isn’t also more lethal!
Climastrology, critical racist theory, transgenderism; they’re all sects of what it’s followers believe to be the one, true religion; Marxism: sowing mayhem, death and destruction wherever it is tried! We now have over a century of results as the proof!
The saying that goes for all actors (Pope included): you have to play to your audience.
He’s been a Roman Catholic Priest, his adult life has been lived in an economic system like the Marxist creed of “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need”. The Catholic version is more like “to each according to his influence, from each according to his superior.”
Modern Marxism is really Christianity 2.0. Same methods, just without the spirituality, unless you consider tree and rock worship to be a religion, which it really is.
I went looking for the one about man’s dominion of the Earth but this one appealed more:
~Genesis 9:2
The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given.”
Thank you very much, Sir. So it’s my birthday present then?
That was the Spanish Inquisition not the regular Inquisition, a Church body originally set up to avoid lynching of the accused people – it is a fact, look it up before regurgitating protestant hate and propaganda – as if any protestant country allowed free worship in the early years.
The Spanish Inquisition was used to root out anyone thought to be a threat to the kingdom, that had spent SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS fighting to kick out invaders, and any Jew or Moslem was looked at with suspicion, just like Germans and Japanese people were rounded up and imprisoned in camps in the US during WW2.
“my brothers and sisters of our suffering planet….”
Notice, not, ” Brothers and sisters in Christ….”
And now he worships the earth.
Actually, Galileo was persecuted for promoting someone else’s theory – Copernicus. That, to my mind makes him even more heroic; to defend something he didn’t come up with.
Galileo verified Copernicus theory, and went public.
He had to recant to save his life
Last not least in a move, which I would never dare to repeat, he left the inquisition court with the words “Yet it moves!”
Proof? He would almost certainly have been hauled back in and burned at the stake if anyone had heard him.
Probably not, but it´s still a better story that these pope numblings
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/did-galileo-truly-say-and-yet-it-moves-a-modern-detective-story/
Verification- that is proof- has little value- yet, the lack of proof of the “climate emergency” carries great weight! Enough to brankrupt all of us for “green” energy.
Actually he didn’t verify anything. Definite proof of his theory didn’t come until much later.
Galileo built his own telescope. When he trained it on Jupiter, he saw four points of light that changed positions each succeeding night. They are now referred to as Galilean moons. He also described a star that was probably the planet Neptune.
Galieo was an also-ran in this story.
See: Imprisonment, trial and execution, 1593–1600 @ur momisugly the Wiki entry for Giordano_Bruno
He was turned over to the secular authorities. On 17 February 1600, in the Campo de’ Fiori (a central Roman market square), with his “tongue imprisoned because of his wicked words”, he was hung upside down naked before finally being burned alive at the stake.[61][62] His ashes were thrown into the Tiber river.
Have Francis or any other Pope apologised for their sado-masochistic wickedness?
Today, he would be cancelled, which is equivalent to long term water torture; drip, drip, because the lawyer-esque bureaucracy would never release its pray.
Look what is being done to Trump
That indeed may all be true but it had nothing to do with science. The reason for his execution was his views on religion. Not a justification for executing him, but let’s get our history correct.
Head of the Roman Cattholic Church of Megalomania
The Roman Catholic Church has become sooooo irrelevant
Like this, you mean?
More than 70% of the world’s cobalt – used for car and computer batteries – is mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The country also provides more than 25% of titanium supplies – extracted from coltan – which is used to make mobile phones. And yet precious little of the proceeds from the sake of these minerals is passed down to the miners.
Which is why the Catholic Church has helped set up the Mining Co-operative of Artisanal Operators (COMIDEA).
Until now, many poor miners have been so desperate to feed their families, they sell whatever they have as quickly as possible – even if they are ripped off in the process.
But under the COMIDEA scheme, the extracted materials are passed to the co-operative for sale at a minimum agreed price and any workers unable to wait are paid an advance sum.
The Pope is shilling for the IPPC SCARE MONGERS
Forgive them, oh Lord, for they know not what they have done
Never forgive them, for they do know what they are doing
Great comment
It wouldn’t surprise me if the Pope had visited Little Saint James or the like. Some way or another he is controlled.
The Woke Pope, chief religious officer, CRO, spoke to the God of climate change, aka “we own the science “ IPCC, which told him what to write
No wonder so many people on WUWT are so upset
Next time the POPE MOBILE better be an EV, or all hell will descend on him
https://www.netzerowatch.com/callous-callanan/
Maybe the Pope can speak for the poor and push back on the nut zero con that will cause untold misery, poverty, poor health, hunger and inequality – I’m certain his boss is more concerned with the poor than greedy globalist elites
Unfortunately, the Pope believes that the best way to help the poor is through a one world, marxist government.
The Synod of the Church in England has I think divested its pension funds of FFs. To the harm of their threadbare priesthood. The Church should be campaigning for sub Saharan electricity
“If you aren’t allowed to question something then you’re dealing with religion, not science.”
Posed this question before several years back elsewhere, posing it again here: Which is the bigger sin, Catholics / Christians overall failing to do what they can on the “moral imperative to fight climate change” (a situation besieged with problems concerning assertions about its ‘settled science’ …. or breaking one of the ten commandments on bearing false witness when they either label skeptic climate scientists as ‘industry-paid liars for hire,’ or if they don’t question anything about that accusation?
Well 🤨 , since failing to counter “climate change” is absolutely not a sin, the only question is, what should each of us do to fight the lies promoting the conjecture that human CO2 causes meaningful shifts in the climate zones of the earth?
That is a question for each person’s conscience.
It’s between that person and God.
Slander and lies (including recklessly asserting as fact what one knows one does not know with high certainty) are sin.
The current pope needs to ask God to forgive him.
So, Dude, is it a fact or only ‘allegedly’ a fact? In the distant past, the atmosphere was MUCH warmer than present and life on Earth thrived. In the more recent past, it was MUCH colder than present and life on Earth barely struggled to survive. Which was better?
John Calvin was right.
I’m not sure how you think John Calvin was right, but I would point out that his takeover of Geneva, Switzerland was like a preview of the Soviet Union. Also, his belief in “double predestination” fits perfectly with the current ‘woke’ climate environment. If you were predestined by God to go to heaven, you could do anything in his name (such as eliminating those who were predestined to go to hell). Forgiveness of sins wasn’t a thing in his world.
Dude, like the Younger Dryas you should just chill out. 😉
You are right about some of Calvin’s views but very wrong about others.
lol all religion is made up fairy tales to calm the masses who panic at the sound of lightning or shadows in the woods.
Most physicists do not panic at lightning or shifting shadows. If you do a little research, you will discover that many of the most eminent scientists in history were or are also observant Jews or practicing Christians.
A very small selection.
Albert of Saxony (philosopher) (c. 1320 – 1390) – German bishop known for his contributions to logic and physics; with Buridan he helped develop the theory that was a precursor to the modern theory of inertia.
Albertus Magnus (c. 1206 – 1280) – Dominican friar and Bishop of Regensburg who has been described as “one of the most famous precursors of modern science in the High Middle Ages.” Patron saint of natural sciences; Works in physics, logic, metaphysics, biology, and psychology.
Jean Buridan (c. 1300 – after 1358) – priest who formulated early ideas of momentum and inertial motion and sowed the seeds of the Copernican revolution in Europe
Robert Grosseteste (c. 1175 – 1253) – bishop who was one of the most knowledgeable men of the Middle Ages; has been called “the first man ever to write down a complete set of steps for performing a scientific experiment”,
Gregor Mendel (1822–1884) – Augustinian friar and father of genetics
Nicolas Steno (1638–1686) – bishop beatified by Pope John Paul II who is often called the father of geology and stratigraphy, and is known for Steno’s principles.
All of the above people where ordained Catholic clergy.
Do you mean one of the Marxist religious cults like Climastrology? Over a century of demonstrations and no on has yet gotten it to work!! Enjoy your crow!
Do you know that as a fact? If so you should be able to provide convincing proof.
If you can’t, why should we take your religious declarations above anyone else’s?
Locktite, except for…. you know… Christ rising from the dead and then ascending to the clouds.
“Dude” with a capital “D.” Heh.
Frankie Duo Dii
Or Frankie Two Gods. Concessions with one and demands with the other:
“Pope Francis has suggested he would be open to having the Catholic Church bless same-sex couples. Responding to a group of cardinals who asked him for clarity on the issue, he said any request for a blessing should be treated with “pastoral charity”.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66991427
“It is no longer possible to doubt the human – “anthropic” – origin of climate change”
An atheist opines
The truth about the Churches – and the CoE is certainly the more loony – is they are ditching the core elements of the faith in order to retain a sense of being socially right on and relevant. As an atheist I still find myself in awe at the works of art, the music and the culture that Christianity has given us [English at least].
The Churches find even the Bible to be an embarrassment, they certainly won’t defend it even though people swear on it in court.
When Frankie mentions “increased democratization ” think full on autocracy.
It’s been a long time since witnesses had to swear on the Bible in the US.
They never had to swear on the bible, you could always “affirm”. It was still just as legally binding, just less traditional. Some Christian religions don’t even permit you to swear on the bible since it implies that the laws of man are more important than the laws of god.
Locktite, nothing is implied…. the laws of God always supercede laws of man
Depends on where, and maybe even the judge. I’ve seen it in my county court, but not every time.
Do you think that the BBC is a reliable source of information? Pope Francis is the master of ambiguity. Unfortunately, as with so much else, the BBC reports what it wants to see rather than what is actually there. (There are people in the Catholic Church who believe that Pope Francis wants people like the BBC to interpret his words they way they do, even though he will never approve of the things they say he approves of.)
As to Pope Francis’s assertion about our climate I marvel at all the qualifications he clearly posseses to come to all the conclusions he announces in his document. But I definitely feel a tad victimised when he says, “I feel obliged to make these clarifications, which may appear obvious, because of certain dismissive and scarcely reasonable opinions that I encounter, even within the Catholic Church.”
I would also take issue with your statement that ‘The Churches find even the Bible to be an embarrasment.” There is wide disagreement among Protestants as to the nature and authority of the Bible but the Catholic Church holds the Bible in high esteem as the word of God. Have a read of the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation of the Second Vatican Council.
“”I would also take issue with your statement that ‘The Churches find even the Bible to be an embarrasment.””
Really
“”A Christian street preacher who had his Bible confiscated as he was handcuffed by police has been awarded £2,500 for wrongful arrest.””
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/28/christian-preacher-racism-wrongful-arrest-payout-bible
Where was the church?
If correcting global warming pushes everyone back to a caveman like existence, the church won’t have science to contend with. But, this wouldn’t be a consideration would it?
We shall return to the old ways, and the old gods!
Locktite believes…. in the wrong God… too bad… but He is merciful so you still have time
“It is no longer possible to doubt the human – “anthropic” – origin of climate change. Let us see why. The concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which causes global warming, was stable until the nineteenth century, below 300 parts per million in volume. But in the middle of that century, in conjunction with industrial development, emissions began to increase. In the past fifty years, this increase has accelerated significantly, as the Mauna Loa observatory, which has taken daily measurements of carbon dioxide since 1958, has confirmed.”
This pope promotes ignorant iniquity. It’s not only possible to doubt anthropic cc, we can now reject it.
Man-made emissions amounted to just 3.5% of the annual net flow of CO2 in the year 2021:
====> Something that is so small a fraction of the total cannot and does not drive the total. <====
Note to the Pope: Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil… Isaiah 5:20
Certainly true to form historically. The RC Church was engaged in trying to suborn all other mediaeval monarchs to the will of the Church at the expense of their own domestic authority. Perhaps the clearest example was the placing of the Interdict on England for six years – 1208-1214 by Pope Innocent III.
Among many other things, the calls for the First Crusade starting in the 11th century were a bid by the RC Church for supremacy over its Eastern Orthodox rival as well as ascendancy over the rising tide of mediaeval monarchy.
So Francis can be seen as simply using the excuse of AGW as a means of expanding the authority f the Church. This is not surprising. The Church was spectacularly incapable of having any significant role in the great crises of the 20th century in the rise and decline of socialism (Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia). So it’s been losing any social influence for a long time. Presumably this is Francis’ way of trying to get some back.
Governments and the Catholic Church looking more and more the same with governments selling “carbon” indulgences. And if you don’t recite the warmist catechism, you are deemed anathema.
Bergoglio does not understand science, and from his excursions into Liberation Theology, he does not get religion much better.
What is a “seaquake” and how is it connected with anthropogenic climate change?
I’m sure if you look hard enough you will find a study that links slightly warming oceans to increased under sea earthquakes caused by the slight expansion of the water 🙂
Let us sing unto the Lord a new song
Praise climate and magnify it for ever.
Credo in hominem factum tempestatem, gehennae creatorem in terra
Deo Vindice.
“””In recent years, some have chosen to deride these facts. They bring up allegedly solid scientific data, like the fact that the planet has always had, and will have, periods of cooling and warming. They forget to mention another relevant datum: that what we are presently experiencing is an unusual acceleration of warming, at such a speed that it will take only one generation – not centuries or millennia – in order to verify it.”””
They might lies, incorrect, premature and beridden with all kinds of satanic evil, but scientific data are facts, whereas anything which needs a future time period, no matter how seemingly short, is NOT a fact yet. I understand that religion likes a lot to talk about thing verified in the future, mostly once you are dead, but that takes it out of the science realm.
The case of G. Alimonti,,who got a perfectly correct and reviewed skeptical paper canceled after the publication, shows that the climate inquisition is out already..
But what about brave honest upstanding climate church followers which happen to stumble about critical facts and even dare to publish them..
Cheng-Zhi Zou et al 2023
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2022JD037472
happens to suggest to reanalyze global temperature data using better methods and the results look a lot more like the UAH trends..
Should we alarm Mann, Rahmstorf and the other self-proclaimed climate authorities that they again correct such behavior by any means necessary in the name of the pope and all of the catholic church?
He did not express his opinion here, but used the full authority of his job position!
BTW, as the voice of the catholic god his words are infallible, from here on it hereby is so! (until he maybe redecides)
I was raised Roman Catholic but not one now. I’m just a Christian who studies the Bible and loves God and am thankful for what he did for us in Christ.
But as to what you said,
“He did not express his opinion here, but used the full authority of his job position!
BTW, as the voice of the catholic god his words are infallible, from here on it hereby is so! (until he maybe redecides)”
RC doctrine is that the pope is only “infallible” when he speaks “ex cathedra”.
He didn’t do that here. (Though I wouldn’t put it past this guy to make such a claim later.
Oh, and PS 1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; (KJV)
Amen!
Heavy-handed dictatorship and corruption of the Roman church was the reason many rejected it about five hundred years ago. The Church of Rome continues to provide reinforcement for that decision.
The ignorance displayed by Pope Francis in Laudate Diem is truly appalling.
And on and on. And this from a Jesuite, a supposed learned Priest? His ignorance is an embarrassment to the order.
I’m catholic… this pope is horrible… the catholic church has many issues… but that’s because of the sinful nature of humanity… Jesus’ words never fail – we do.
if this doesn’t kill the Papal Infallibility doctrine I don’t know what will.
In Catholic school I was taught the Pope is only infallible on matters of Christian doctrine.
His other utterances have no more weight than those of Rob Reiner.
You are correct. But he is getting pretty close to changing Canon Law which would bring the Catholic church down.
…et portae inferi non praevalebunt adversum eam.
(Mt 16:18)
And also blessing gay couples… i know, it goes against God’s word…. but it will fill the pews and pockets… unfortunately, $$$ is the idol for too many high up in the ranks of the catholic church
The Bible, that foundation of Christian doctrine (well, as least as relates to the New Testament portion), never once mentions any of the phrases “climate change”, “global warming”, or “atmospheric CO2” by any stretching of any language translation to date.
You need to look in the new CCP approved Bible! I believe they changed the wording to “love of money and capitalism are the root of all evil! Obviously this pope agrees, while living in the luxury and opulence of one of the most expensive palaces on Earth!
any stretching of any language translation to date.
Give it time…
Catholic school = being stuffed into the jelly mould of the most evil greatest heretical cult of the last nr 2000 years.
“Mary queen of heaven” and all that.
The mantra of the hucksters, and con artists: Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Methinks Francis is spending too much time with Klaus Schwab.
. or Rahm Emanuel
I haven’t ever regretted squandering a crisis (not taking advantage of others’ weakened emotional state).
2. Eight years have passed since I published the Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’,
when I wanted to share with all of you, my brothers and sisters of our suffering
planet, my heartfelt concerns about the care of our common home.
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We will feel its effects in the areas of healthcare, sources of employment, access
to resources, housing, forced migrations, etc.
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Forty years have passed since Climate Change became an issue, over fifty years if you include the 1970’s Climate scare (Global Cooling) and surely Pope Francis is old enough to remember that and what the weather was like in all those years since. Pope Francis is in a position to have ALL of the available climate data and objective analysis available for his examination to augment his memories.
Certainly he must understand that closing power stations, culling cattle, denying use of fertilizer and ending the production of all the products created from petroleum will negatively affect more than just healthcare, employment and access to resources and population stability. Only allowing electric power produced by inefficient expensive intermittent means will not sustain current civilization.
Ultimately, people will revolt.
Story tip
Drivers taking things into their own hands. This time it’s Portugal.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/portuguese-drivers-take-matters-own-hands-climate-activists-show-how-done
Mixing the Pope’s church and climate change makes perfect sense… both are based on one’s being a “believer” and little to nothing to do with science. So with faith in the name of … please please please help do something about climate change.