I like Pope Francis for the most part. Unfortunatley, he has bought into the Global Warming scam lock stock and barrel.
Eric Worrall has an excellent essay at Watts Up With That:
To whom does a Christian owe their loyalty?
Does a Christian owe their first loyalty to the Pope, or to God? If your conscience tells you one thing, and the Pope tells you another, which path should you follow?
Galileo followed his conscience. Even when given a direct order by the highest authority in Christendom, to recant his opinion that the Earth is not the centre of the universe, he chose conscience over obedience, divinity over temporal authority – until he was threatened with unspeakable pain.
I am not saying the church is always wrong. Most of the time, the church is a force for good. The moral authority which is the Christian church helped to create the modern world. The concept of a single god, a god of love rather than hate, a universe of order, in which the forces of chaos were chained in the abyss, gave the philosopher monks the peace to pursue their research into the innermost workings of creation – and the faith to believe that creation was orderly enough to be explored.
However, a papal encyclical which demands action on climate change would be tantamount to an accusation that people who doubt the urgency of addressing climate change are evil – are cynically exploiting the doubts of others, for their own selfish ends. Yet surely true evil is condemning millions to live their lives in endless drudgery, by denying them the opportunities inexpensive energy and affordable food might bring, on the basis of the flimsiest of evidence – defective models and failed predictions.
More at the site - an excellent read. Anthropogenic Climate Change is a political movement and not a scientific one. The numbers and observed data simply do not add up. Even the IPCC admits that there has been no warming in the last 18+ years and there is a move to examine the record of surface temperatures as these have been known to have been 'adjusted'
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