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The Pope condemns the climate change prophets
By SIMON CALDWELL
Last updated at 23:14pm on 11th December 2007
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...ews.html?in_article_id=501316&in_page_id=1811
Attack: Pope Benedict criticised climate-change prophets of doom
Pope Benedict XVI has launched a surprise attack on climate change
prophets of doom, warning them that any solutions to global warming
must be based on firm evidence and not on dubious ideology.
The leader of more than a billion Roman Catholics suggested that fears
over man-made emissions melting the ice caps and causing a wave of
unprecedented disasters were nothing more than scare-mongering.
The German-born Pontiff said that while some concerns may be valid it
was vital that the international community based its policies on
science rather than the dogma of the environmentalist movement.
His remarks will be made in his annual message for World Peace Day on
January 1, but they were released as delegates from all over the world
convened on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali for UN climate
change talks.
The 80-year-old Pope said the world needed to care for the environment
but not to the point where the welfare of animals and plants was given
a greater priority than that of mankind.
"Humanity today is rightly concerned about the ecological balance of
tomorrow," he said in the message entitled "The Human Family, A
Community of Peace".
"It is important for assessments in this regard to be carried out
prudently, in dialogue with experts and people of wisdom, uninhibited
by ideological pressure to draw hasty conclusions, and above all with
the aim of reaching agreement on a model of sustainable development
capable of ensuring the well-being of all while respecting
environmental balances.
"If the protection of the environment involves costs, they should be
justly distributed, taking due account of the different levels of
development of various countries and the need for solidarity with
future generations.
"Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and
postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint
decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken."
Efforts to protect the environment should seek "agreement on a model
of sustainable development capable of ensuring the well-being of all
while respecting environmental balances", the Pope said.
He added that to further the cause of world peace it was sensible for
nations to "choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of
unilateral decisions" in how to cooperate responsibly on conserving
the planet.
The Pope's message is traditionally sent to heads of government and
international organisations.
His remarks reveal that while the Pope acknowledges that problems may
be associated with unbridled development and climate change, he
believes the case against global warming to be over-hyped.
A broad consensus is developing among the world's scientific community
over the evils of climate change.
But there is also an intransigent body of scientific opinion which
continues to insist that industrial emissions are not to blame for the
phenomenon.
Such scientists point out that fluctuations in the earth's temperature
are normal and can often be caused by waves of heat generated by the
sun. Other critics of environmentalism have compared the movement to a
burgeoning industry in its own right.
In the spring, the Vatican hosted a conference on climate change that
was welcomed by environmentalists.
But senior cardinals close to the Vatican have since expressed doubts
about a movement which has been likened by critics to be just as
dogmatic in its assumptions as any religion.
In October, the Australian Cardinal George Pell, the Archbishop of
Sydney, caused an outcry when he noted that the atmospheric
temperature of Mars had risen by 0.5 degrees celsius.
"The industrial-military complex up on Mars can't be blamed for that,"
he said in a criticism of Australian scientists who had claimed that
carbon emissions would force temperatures on earth to rise by almost
five degrees by 2070 unless drastic solutions were enforced.
--
If you disagree with the theories and dogmas of Marxism or Scientific Socialism
then you are a tool of Capitalist interests. If you disagree with the theories
or dogmas of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming then you are a tool of
Capitalistic interests. Notice a pattern here? -- Captain Compassion
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to
escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -- Marcus Aurelius
"...the whole world, including the United States, including all that
we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark
Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights
of perverted science." -- Sir Winston Churchill
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
By SIMON CALDWELL
Last updated at 23:14pm on 11th December 2007
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...ews.html?in_article_id=501316&in_page_id=1811
Attack: Pope Benedict criticised climate-change prophets of doom
Pope Benedict XVI has launched a surprise attack on climate change
prophets of doom, warning them that any solutions to global warming
must be based on firm evidence and not on dubious ideology.
The leader of more than a billion Roman Catholics suggested that fears
over man-made emissions melting the ice caps and causing a wave of
unprecedented disasters were nothing more than scare-mongering.
The German-born Pontiff said that while some concerns may be valid it
was vital that the international community based its policies on
science rather than the dogma of the environmentalist movement.
His remarks will be made in his annual message for World Peace Day on
January 1, but they were released as delegates from all over the world
convened on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali for UN climate
change talks.
The 80-year-old Pope said the world needed to care for the environment
but not to the point where the welfare of animals and plants was given
a greater priority than that of mankind.
"Humanity today is rightly concerned about the ecological balance of
tomorrow," he said in the message entitled "The Human Family, A
Community of Peace".
"It is important for assessments in this regard to be carried out
prudently, in dialogue with experts and people of wisdom, uninhibited
by ideological pressure to draw hasty conclusions, and above all with
the aim of reaching agreement on a model of sustainable development
capable of ensuring the well-being of all while respecting
environmental balances.
"If the protection of the environment involves costs, they should be
justly distributed, taking due account of the different levels of
development of various countries and the need for solidarity with
future generations.
"Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and
postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint
decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken."
Efforts to protect the environment should seek "agreement on a model
of sustainable development capable of ensuring the well-being of all
while respecting environmental balances", the Pope said.
He added that to further the cause of world peace it was sensible for
nations to "choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of
unilateral decisions" in how to cooperate responsibly on conserving
the planet.
The Pope's message is traditionally sent to heads of government and
international organisations.
His remarks reveal that while the Pope acknowledges that problems may
be associated with unbridled development and climate change, he
believes the case against global warming to be over-hyped.
A broad consensus is developing among the world's scientific community
over the evils of climate change.
But there is also an intransigent body of scientific opinion which
continues to insist that industrial emissions are not to blame for the
phenomenon.
Such scientists point out that fluctuations in the earth's temperature
are normal and can often be caused by waves of heat generated by the
sun. Other critics of environmentalism have compared the movement to a
burgeoning industry in its own right.
In the spring, the Vatican hosted a conference on climate change that
was welcomed by environmentalists.
But senior cardinals close to the Vatican have since expressed doubts
about a movement which has been likened by critics to be just as
dogmatic in its assumptions as any religion.
In October, the Australian Cardinal George Pell, the Archbishop of
Sydney, caused an outcry when he noted that the atmospheric
temperature of Mars had risen by 0.5 degrees celsius.
"The industrial-military complex up on Mars can't be blamed for that,"
he said in a criticism of Australian scientists who had claimed that
carbon emissions would force temperatures on earth to rise by almost
five degrees by 2070 unless drastic solutions were enforced.
--
If you disagree with the theories and dogmas of Marxism or Scientific Socialism
then you are a tool of Capitalist interests. If you disagree with the theories
or dogmas of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming then you are a tool of
Capitalistic interests. Notice a pattern here? -- Captain Compassion
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to
escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -- Marcus Aurelius
"...the whole world, including the United States, including all that
we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark
Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights
of perverted science." -- Sir Winston Churchill
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
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