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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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Will Pope Francis alter public attitudes on global warming?
2015-06-20 04:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Star Telegram: Now that another of the worlds most consequential leaders has sounded the alarm over what he says is human-caused global warming, we can ask if his words will significantly alter public concerns over the controversial topic. Pope Francis declared his belief in scientific findings that the greater part of global warming in the last decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases emitted above all due to human activity. Climate change activists are cheering his decree while skeptics...
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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 calls for action on climate change, biodiversity loss
2015-06-19 20:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: In a letter being widely heralded by environmentalists, yesterday Pope Francis called on world leaders to address threats to the planet, including climate change and species extinction. Notably, the leader of the Catholic Church singled out "human activity" as the main driver of these threats. Calling climate change an urgent challenge and a danger that will disproportionately affect the world's poorest people, Pope Francis spoke of a need for a fundamental rethink of how we produce energy and...
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