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Pope Francis warns of unprecedented destruction if climate change is not addressed
2015-06-16 12:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The Pope has warned that there will be serious consequences for all unless the world does more to tackle climate change, in a leaked copy of an eagerly anticipated encyclical. The draft, which has been published by LEspresso magazine, states, If the current trend continues, this century could witness climate change [that leads to] unprecedented destruction of ecosystems, with serious consequences for us all. The letter points to rising sea levels as an example, noting that a quarter of...
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Pope Francis to Explore Climates Effect on Worlds Poor
2015-06-14 00:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Ban Ki-moon arrived at the Vatican with his own college of cardinals. Mr. Ban, the United Nations secretary general, had brought the leaders of all his major agencies to see Pope Francis, a show of organizational muscle and respect for a meeting between two global institutions that had sometimes shared a bumpy past but now had a mutual interest. The agenda was poverty, and Francis inveighed against the economy of exclusion as he addressed Mr. Bans delegation at the Apostolic Palace. But in...
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Pope Francis May Find Wariness Among US Bishops on Climate Change
2015-06-14 00:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The church bulletin inserts are nearly ready to go. So are the emails to every Roman Catholic parish in the United States with preaching suggestions for the first Sunday after Pope Francis releases his encyclical on the environment. A week after that, on June 28, churches worldwide are being asked to ring their bells at noon to commemorate a Thank you, Pope Francis march in Rome being held that day. Never before, church leaders say, has a papal encyclical been anticipated so eagerly by so many....
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Angry US Republicans tell Pope Francis stick with his job and well stick with ours
2015-06-13 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Leading figures on the American right are launching a series of pre-emptive attacks on the pope before this weeks encyclical, hoping to prevent a mass conversion of the climate change deniers who have powered the corps of the conservative movement for more than a decade. The prospect that the pope, from his perch at the pinnacle of the Catholic church, will exhort humanity to act on climate change as a moral imperative is a direct threat to a core belief of US conservatives. And conservatives ...
Explosive intervention by Pope Francis set transform climate change debate
2015-06-13 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Pope Francis will call for an ethical and economic revolution to prevent catastrophic climate change and growing inequality in a letter to the worlds 1.2 billion Catholics on Thursday. In an unprecedented encyclical on the subject of the environment, the pontiff is expected to argue that humanitys exploitation of the planets resources has crossed the Earths natural boundaries, and that the world faces ruin without a revolution in hearts and minds. The much-anticipated message, which will be...
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