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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2015, @04:39AM
Whether you agree or disagree with Mr. Santorum, this behavior of conflating his name with something else is juvenile. The submitter certainly couldn't focus on simple facts to present an interesting article and the SN editor apparently wanted to support the submitter's shameful behavior.
Tell me why SN is a quality news site that is head-and-shoulders above Slashdot? You're claims for being better are simply not credible - I can't imagine why I, or anyone, contributed to such garbage reporting.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 19 2015, @12:05AM
> Whether you agree or disagree with Mr. Santorum, this behavior of conflating his name with something else is juvenile.
No, it is something he earned. It wouldn't be such an enduring meme - well over a decade old now - if it were only about juvenile name-calling it wouldn't have lasted so long. What you can take away from its longevity is that the whole incident characterizes his worldview.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 19 2015, @12:28AM
Wait, there's a Mr. Santorum? I feel sorry for that guy! Thats worse than being named I. C. Weiners or Mike Hunt.