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Despite the santorum splattered about, the Pontiff of the Church Universal and Triumphant [EDIT: This is actually referring to the Roman Catholic Church, not the Church Universal and Triumphant] is going to agree with the climate change consensus in an encyclical to be released on Thursday. Early leaks give some idea of the content.
Pope Francis is preparing to declare humans as primarily responsible for climate change, call for fossil fuels to be replaced by renewable energy and decry the culture of consumerism, a leaked draft of his much anticipated statement on the environment suggests.
The source for this somehow concerns Australians, but we will take any indication of infallibility where we can get it.
So the humble submitter has to wonder, does this mean that climate-change deniers are now to be considered heretics, rather than just Petro shills or anti-environmental conservative conspiracy theorists? It does add a entirely new dimension to the debate, and I hope that God will forgive your Conservative asses for screwing up Her creation in the quest for profit.
UPDATE - janrinok 18 Jun 12:36UTC
is it possible to update/append aristarchus' post "Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming" (https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/06/17/0317256), as follows:
Update: The encyclical can be read and downloaded here.
I am not affiliated with the submitter, aristarchus, or the pope. I have a slightly paranoid reason for asking for this update; it is my experience that, whenever politically important documents are published, the actual document often gets overshadowed by an enormous load of blog commentary, providing a bit of "damage control" and "spin". It is my fervent opinion that the readership of Soylentnews deserves to read the actual source documents. (It's only 82 pages long, in this case, anyway).
Original Submission
(Score: 5, Funny) by MrNemesis on Wednesday June 17 2015, @04:06PM
It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: Earth is dying.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Terran community when the Vatican confirmed that global temperature had risen yet again, now up to more than one degree per antipirate. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that earth has lost yet more polar ice, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Earth is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Farnsworth "Most Liveable Planet" test.
You don't need to be Al Gore to predict Earth's future. The hand writing is on the wall: life on Earth faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for humans because Earth is dying. Things are looking very bad for the world. As many of us are already aware, Earth continues to lose habitable land mass. Carbon credits flow like a river of blood.
The West is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its emission controls. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time humans Terry Pratchett and Leonard Nimoy only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Earth is dying.
All major surveys show that Earth has steadily risen in temperature. The world is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If humans are to survive at all it will be among NASA dilettante dabblers. The world continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Earth is dead.
"To paraphrase Nietzsche, I have looked into the abyss and been sick in it."