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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 Friday June 19 2015, @06:28AM
Judith Miller? Yes, this sounds totally credible. (Yeah, Curry, that's better. Who is this? And it is a comment by someone else on this site? Chain of personal responsibility, AC. ) On the one hand, they cannot count. That is always a bad sign. On the second, Francis could not have written it because he is "dumb", as in less intelligent that Pope Ratz who could not even go on to die in office? Just because you were head of the Office of the Inquisition does not mean you are smart. In fact, well, we'll just let that sink in for a bit. Written by committee? OMG? What do you think most world leaders do? Spend all their time writing letters and speeches? Next you will be telling us that Pope Francis was using a Teleprompter! And establishing a corrupt global authority? I thought that was what TPP was for! No, this has no cred, it is BS, Right wing driveling santorum of the lowest quality, from someone who obviously has not, as suggested, actually read the damn encyclical. Try again, conservative American "Catholic"!