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Pope Affirms Anthropogenic Global Warming
Despite the Santorum http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/02/28/spreading-santorum-1-result-when-you-google-santorum-2003-2012 [thestranger.com] splattered about, the Pontiff of 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, http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australian-catholics-prepare-for-popes-environment-statement-as-draft-leaks-20150616-ghpcli.html [smh.com.au] Like this. 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. (Editor, feel free to cut this entire paragraph. The rest is as incinderary as could be desired, anyway)
