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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, Informative) by Immerman on Wednesday June 17 2015, @04:17PM
Well, the Pope has an estimated 1.2 billion self-identified followers (Roman Catholics), roughly 17% of the world's population. Many of whom take his statements far more seriously than a netcraft post. Regardless of your opinions of the religion or the man, if you want to actually work a change in the world that requires the cooperation of the masses he is probably the single most powerful advocate you could hope for.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 19 2015, @02:57PM
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Meme knowledge is dying
One more crippled bombshell hit the already beleaguered Meme community when AC confirmed that meme mind share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all posters. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that memes have lost more mind share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Memes are collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Comment Poster comprehensive whooshing test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict meme knowledge's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Meme knowledge faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for meme knowledge because meme knowledge is dying. Things are looking very bad for meme knowledge. As many of us are already aware, Memes continue to lose mind share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
The Netcraft Meme is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core knowers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Netcraft meme developers Anonymous Coward and Anonymous Coward only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: The Netcraft meme is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Whoosh meme leader AC states that there are 7000 users of the Whoosh meme. How many users of Insensitive Clod are there? Let's see. The number of Whoosh versus Insensitive Clod posts on web forums is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Insensitive Clod users. RTFA posts on web forums are about half of the volume of Insensitive Clod posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of RTFA. A recent article put the Netcraft meme at about 80 percent of the meme market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Netcraft meme users. This is consistent with the number of Netcraft meme web forum posts.
Due to the troubles of Alzheimer's, abysmal memory and so on, the Netcraft meme went out of usage and was taken over by Year Of The Linux Desktop who promote another troubled meme. Now Year Of The Linux Desktop is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that meme knowledge has steadily declined in mind share. Meme knowledge is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If meme knowledge is to survive at all it will be among meme dilettante babblers. Meme knowledge continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save meme knowledge from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, meme knowledge is dead.
Fact: meme knowledge is dying
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Friday June 19 2015, @04:43PM
Any meme that is just wordplay/bad misquotes, etc. deserves to die. Memes with actual substance ("rape is bad", "copyright infringement is theft", "the Earth is round") tend to have a lot more staying power once they've managed to spread, regardless of your opinion of their validity.