No, not Francis, it was another.
Yesterday, a conference was held at the Vatican with UN officials including the pro-abortion, population-control advocate Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon. The Pope is preparing his "encyclical" on the environment and potentially the junk science of global warming.
For real science, take a visit to the McAbee Fossil Beds which clearly show that trees once grew where it is now cold and at elevations unexpected proving that at one time, this area of British Columbia was warmer. We also have a report by Smithsonian scientists on the presence of tropical palm fossils and forests in Greenland and north of the Arctic Circle. I learnt this in elementary school nearly fifty years ago (oh my, has it been that long?).
Global warming as a result of mankind and Co2 is junk science, yet yesterday, distinguished scientists opposing this global scam were badly treated by Vatican officials desirous of questioning this agenda promoted by Ban Ki Moon. As if speaking directly to Pope Francis, British journalist and political commentator and Roman Catholic Christopher Monckton said, "You demean the office that you hold and
you demean the church whom it is your sworn duty to protect and defend and
advance, ... You will be kicking the poor in the teeth. Stand back and listen to
both sides. And do not take sides in politics." s
I couldn't agree more. I am shocked, dismayed, embarrassed and ashamed of this Pope for coddling up to this leftist and globalist political agenda. As a Catholic, I am scandalised by the Bishop of Rome, Jorge Bergoglio and his embracing of this climate-change agenda. I dread this upcoming encyclical on the environment and what it means for the credibility of the Church and the Vicar of Christ. I am more scandalised that Asia Bibi is still in prison and this Pope meets with pro-abortion and population-control advocates such as Ban Ki Moon. The Pope and the Church have lost their direction. The focus is not on Christ and the salvation of the world by preaching Him crucified and risen but on globalist political agendas. Is it too bizarre to state that communists, sodomites and Freemasons have infiltrated the Church or it more bizarre not to believe it?
The world is burning. Christians are dying for the faith and being persecuted by the sodomite-mafia. Souls are being lost and the Pope has focused on the environment? Frankly, if the world is heading to a crisis due to "climate change" or "global warming" the Church should be pleading to God for intervention, not putting its trust in globalist Freemasons with an agenda to reshape the world. What is next, this Pope chairing a UN Committee on One World Religion?
There was a time when Pope's spoke with clarity and dignity. When one reads below the clarity of Papa Ratzinger, one is left to hang ones head in dread and to cover ones self with ashes over what has become of our Church under this Pontificate.
When the world and the most pro-abortion, anti-Christian President in American history praises the Pope, we have a problem. Has someone put Kool-Aid into his mate?
Thanks to PewSitter.com for the lead on this story.
THE POPE CONDEMNS THE CLIMATE CHANGE PROPHETS OF DOOM
By SIMON CALDWELL
Last updated at 11:01 13 December 2007
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.
"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.
