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Leonardo DiCaprio meets pope to talk about environment
2016-01-28 07:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: There have been 13 popes named Leo in the history of the Roman Catholic Church but perhaps none of them was as famous as the Leo who entered the Vatican on Thursday: Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio. DiCaprio, who is known as Leo, was received by Pope Francis, the Vatican said, without giving details. But the one-line announcement was enough to send photographers and television crews scrambling to stake out the Vatican's gates to try to catch him coming out. Footage issued later from Vatican television...
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Pope Francis tells Davos elite: 'Do not forget the poor!'
2016-01-21 01:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Today: Pope Francis told members of the world's wealthy political and economic elite on Wednesday that they should not be deaf to the cry of the poor and must consider their own role in creating inequality. New technologies such as robotics must also not be allowed to replace humans with "soulless machines," he said in a message to the World Economic Forum in Davos. "To all of you I appeal once more: 'Do not forget the poor!'", he said. The pope, who wrote a major encyclical on climate change and...
Pope Francis was right on climate change
2016-01-07 17:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Climate will have such a profound effect on the earth that we will need to reconsider our relationship with the natural environment. Thats why many environmental activists are now being drawn to an evolving philosophical stance on the topic, shifting away from an approach that is simply political, scientific or economic. There can be no ecology without an adequate anthropology, Pope Francis said in Laudato Si, the papal encyclical released last summer. Francis rejected both an anthropocentric...
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Crowds march, Pope urges 'courage' as climate talks reach crunch
2015-12-06 15:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Pope Francis on Sunday urged nations to act with "courage" while 10,000 climate activists took to the beach in Belgium, a day before UN talks enter their crunch phase in the search for a historic pact against global warming. Ministers begin a frenetic week of negotiations Monday to seal a historic 195-nation agreement in Paris. The envisaged deal seeks to revolutionise the world's energy industry by replacing coal, oil and gas with renewable sources that do not emit heat-trapping greenhouse...
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Carl Pope: Whats Really Happening at COP21
2015-12-06 15:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: If global warming was an enemy army besieging Paris and the COP21 UN climate summit the defenders, there is no sign outside that the siege is being lifted. Its in the mid-50s here, a full 10 degrees above normal. But you can sense that climate advocates recognize that this may be their moment. At the opening assembly of heads of state four days ago, the Big Four U.S., China, EU and India--laid their claim to leadership and ambition and called for success. Canada and Australia, the two carbon...
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