Unchristian: Pope Francis Says Climate Deniers Are ‘Stupid’, Skepticism ‘Perverse’
Pope Francis told CBS News this week that climate change deniers are “stupid” to refute compelling evidence of a climate emergency. [emphasis, links added]
“Some people are stupid (necios), and stupid even if you show them research, they don’t believe it,” the pontiff told CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell when asked what he would say to the deniers of climate change.
“Why? Because they don’t understand the situation, or because of their interests, but climate change exists,” the 87-year-old pope asserted.
Pope Francis had never before sat down for an extensive interview, one-on-one, with a U.S. television network during his 11-year pontificate.
CBS aired portions of the interview Wednesday night on the Evening News and has scheduled a longer version to air May 20 on “60 Minutes,” followed by an hourlong prime time special. …snip…
Pope Francis has been a vocal enthusiast for the war on climate change, calling global warming “one of the most serious and worrying phenomena of our time” and urging “drastic measures” to combat climate change.
“Now is the time to abandon our dependence on fossil fuels and move quickly and decisively toward forms of clean energy and a sustainable and circular economy,” he exhorted in September 2019. “Let us also learn to listen to indigenous peoples, whose age-old wisdom can teach us how to live in a better relationship with the environment.”
“While the situation is not good and the planet is suffering, the window of opportunity is still open,” he warned. “We are still in time. Let us not let it close.”
He has expressed his opinion that any skepticism regarding an alleged “climate emergency” is “perverse.”
The pope has also singled out the United States as particularly to blame for the “climate emergency,” even though it is one of the countries with the cleanest air in the world.
“If we consider that emissions per individual in the United States are about two times greater than those of individuals living in China and about seven times greater than the average of the poorest countries, we can state that a broad change in the irresponsible lifestyle connected with the Western model would have a significant long-term impact,” he stated last October.
Among the “fools” denounced by the pope for their “perverse” skepticism of the climate crisis are a group of over 1,600 prominent scientists, including two Nobel Prize winners, who issued the “World Climate Declaration” last August, refuting the existence of a so-called “climate emergency.”
Among other things, the Declaration asserted that climate models have proven inadequate for predicting global warming, that carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant, and that climate change has not increased natural disasters.
The world has warmed “significantly less than predicted by IPCC on the basis of modeled anthropogenic forcing,” the text states, and the gap between the real world and the modeled world “tells us that we are far from understanding climate change.”
“There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts, and suchlike natural disasters, or making them more frequent,” the document declared. “However, there is ample evidence that CO2-mitigation measures are as damaging as they are costly.”
“There is no climate emergency,” it concluded. “Therefore, there is no cause for panic and alarm.”
“We strongly oppose the harmful and unrealistic net-zero CO2 policy proposed for 2050. Go for adaptation instead of mitigation; adaptation works whatever the causes are,” it added.
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Tom
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I used to be catholic but now I am a pope denier.
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Howdy
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“Pope Francis has been a vocal enthusiast for the war on climate change, calling global warming “one of the most serious and worrying phenomena of our time” and urging “drastic measures” to combat climate change.”
So where is the belief in the Divine plan? That God will protect the righteous? That all things are by design?
He has no faith in the very thing he tells others to believe in. Tells you everything about him.
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Crackpot
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Exactly. CO2 is airborne plant food. It is not a “greenhouse gas pollutant” because no such effect exists – you would burn your face with your own reflection in the mirror if the “back-radiative forcing” at the black heart of it were true. All food on the planet starts with CO2.
There is more animal life on the planet, so God makes the conditions such that more is released from the oceans, to grow more plants, to feed us. Bergoglio is working against God.
“Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they?”
Matthew 6:26
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Len W
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Climate skepticism perverse? Not half as perverse as the pope who thinks so.
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Kevin Doyle
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Pope Francis should lead by example.
No more gasoline, diesel, nor jet fuel for his vehicles and aircraft.
No more fossil fuels to heat the Vatican, nor Papal Residency.
After all, he is a wise teacher who lives to lead others by his ‘virtuous example’…
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Mark
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Romans 1:25 KJVS
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature (aka earth worship) more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Until HAARP is disolved, don’t be calling truth seekers liars. There is an agenda here and no one is seeing it.
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DouweH
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And that agenda is being driven by the minority super rich. As if they don’t have enough already, they want it all.
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Lorraine
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Bergoglio is a hand picked puppet propagandist for the globalist cabal.
The NWO must eliminate faith in God to enable men to be the ultimate authority.
In the secular world as in the faith, you get the leadership you deserve.
We deserve to be mistreated, misinformed and misrepresented because we’ve earned it. Malicious defiance of Gods law, and for those who do not believe, natural law, has brought humanity to the brink of chaos and destruction.
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Crackpot
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I’m Catholic, and I can’t wait for these two senile old bastards who call themselves Catholic to be void of all power and influence. What tools.
Last I checked, “Thou shalt not emit” was not one of the Ten Commandments. Truth is, these liberal leftists have one cardinal sin, Impact. Thou shalt not impact a liberal, nor his property (the environment), nor bother his conscience with wild talk like there only being two sexes, nor deny him the fruit of your labor or your house to squat in, nor exhale near him without 3 face diapers and 5 shots, nor jail him for murdering a baby,…
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DouweH
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The Pope is a manipulated, gullible fool.
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