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The “Climate Science” of Pope Francis Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Reuters reports, “Pope Francis urged national leaders on Monday to implement global environmental agreements without delay, a message that looked to be squarely aimed at U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.

“Addressing a group of scientists that included theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, the pope gave his strongest speech on the environment since the election of Trump, who has threatened to pull out of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.

‘The ‘distraction’ or delay in implementing global agreements on the environment shows that politics has become submissive to a technology and economy which seek profit above all else,’ Francis said.”

So the pope thinks opposition to the Paris Treaty stems from profit seeking?…  Seguir leyendo »

El histórico alegato de Francisco

La encíclica del papa Francisco Laudato si’ ha supuesto un hito en la conversación global sobre la situación ambiental de nuestro mundo. Tras el documento de Bergoglio nada será igual en la mirada de la comunidad católica hacia la custodia de la naturaleza. El texto ha hecho historia por razones que van más allá de su importante repercusión en el actual debate sobre el cambio climático. El que el máximo responsable de una tradición religiosa milenaria en la que se reconocen cientos de millones de personas haga una apelación expresa a sus fieles, en el marco de un documento formal del más alto rango, a una profunda conversión ecológica es algo inaudito, por mucho que algunas voces insistan en la continuidad de esa enseñanza respecto a las impartidas por papas anteriores.…  Seguir leyendo »

Cuando el Papa Francisco visitó América Latina en julio hizo una conmovedora defensa de la selva amazónica y de las personas que la habitan. “El hogar de todos está siendo saqueado, destruido y dañado con impunidad”, dijo a activistas reunidos en la Cumbre Mundial de Movimientos Populares en Bolivia. “Es un grave pecado no defenderla por cobardía”.

Atender el llamado del Papa Francisco no es solo una cuestión moral sino práctica. Más adelante en París, durante la Conferencia de las Naciones sobre Cambio Climático en la que se diseñará una respuesta a los desafíos que plantea el calentamiento global, se debería adoptar una serie de políticas para proteger a los bosques tropicales y a los pueblos que las habitan.…  Seguir leyendo »

Illustration on the pope's advocacy for belief in man-made global warming by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The media and the secular left have a love-hate relationship with the Roman Catholic Church and its popes. When the pope takes positions with which they agree, they applaud him, but when he takes positions with which they disagree, they either ignore or criticize him.

Such is the case with Pope Francis’ encyclical on “climate change.” The Washington Post gave it editorial praise, stating in a front-page headline that it “poses a dilemma for 2016 GOP hopefuls.” Since Francis included abortion along with “climate change” in his argument that the environment and life at all stages has value and is in need of protection, one might ask: Why doesn’t the secular left and media think that’s a problem for Democratic presidential hopefuls?…  Seguir leyendo »

Among environmental activists, the international market for carbon credits is often compared to the medieval sale of indulgences. Pope Francis presides over the Roman Catholic church, the institution that created the market for indulgences, so you might expect him to be more sympathetic on this issue.

And yet his recent encyclical “Laudato Si,” while forcefully urging action to combat climate change, specifically criticizes the sale of “carbon credits.”

The pope claims that the environment cannot be “safeguarded or promoted by market forces.” Confronting the climate crisis will require a deeper, spiritual transformation of society, replacing “consumption with sacrifice, greed with generosity, wastefulness with a spirit of sharing.”…  Seguir leyendo »

What makes Pope Francis and his 187-page encyclical so radical isn't just his call to urgently tackle climate change. It's the fact he openly and unashamedly goes against the grain of dominant social, economic and environment policies.

While the Argentina-born pope is a very humble person whose vision is of a "poor church for the poor", he seems increasingly determined to play a central role on the world stage. Untainted by the realities of government and the greed of big business, he is perhaps the only major figure who can legitimately confront the world's economic and political elites in the way he has.…  Seguir leyendo »

Pope Francis — and I say this as a Catholic — is a complete disaster when it comes to his policy pronouncements. On the economy, and now on the environment, the pope has allied himself with the far left and has embraced an ideology that would make people poorer and less free.

Pope Francis is reportedly preparing a lengthy encyclical message to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics on the need for decisive action on climate change and will speak before the United Nations General Assembly on this subject this year. The pope recently declared: “The monopolizing of lands, deforestation, the appropriation of water, inadequate agro-toxics are some of the evils that tear man from the land of his birth.…  Seguir leyendo »