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Will Pope Francis Climate Encyclical Change the World?
2015-06-20 14:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Pope Francis has drawn the world's attention with a new encyclical that urges action on climate change. But will it have an impact? The papal letter, titled "Laudato si," or "On Care for Our Common Home," paints a bleak picture of Earth as sick and poisoned at almost every level. "The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth," Pope Francis wrote in the document, which is typically sent to bishops of all Roman Catholic churches. [6 Unexpected Effects...
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Pope Francis's encyclical on climate change an awe-inspiring document
2015-06-20 00:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: First, you have to consider the profound weirdness of the situation we find ourselves in. Here is an institution founded on the mystical precepts of virgin birth and transubstantiation, trying to prove to disbelievers the very science that has been staring us in the eye for decades. The Catholic Church, which still clings to miracles and exorcism and continues to turn mortals into saints, also acknowledges that climate change is man-made, empirically proven, and is devastating to the world - concepts...
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The secret science committee behind the pope encyclical
2015-06-19 20:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Sick of hearing about the pope`s encyclical? How about the "400-year-old collective [...] that operates as the popes eyes and ears on the natural world," a.k.a. the "secret science committee" behind that encyclical? Didn`t think so. Here`s the scoop from Bloomberg: The Pontifical Academy has about 80 members, all of them appointed for life. Scientists hail from many nations, religions, and disciplines, which today include astronomy, biochemistry, physics, and mathematics. Members pursue the...
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Pope Francis warns climate change human causes & 'grave implications' landmark encyclical
2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: In a historic document addressed to "every person living on this planet," Pope Francis warns that climate change and other forms of environmental degradation have reached a crisis point. Francis frames "Laudato Si'," the first papal encyclical devoted solely to ecological issues, as an "urgent appeal ... for a new dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet." Encyclicals are among the highest forms of Catholic teaching a pontiff can publish. "A very solid scientific consensus...
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Popes encyclical makes grade in climate science
2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: When it comes to the science of climate change, Pope Francis' environmentally focused encyclical makes the grade, experts said Thursday. Francis makes clear in the document that humanity bears most of the blame for the warming of the planet and he lays out the main findings of climate science -- that greenhouse gases are causing global temperatures to rise, that sea levels are also rising, that extreme weather events are becoming worse, and that polar ice is melting, further imperiling the planet....
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