Pope Francis addresses Global Warming

[Braveheart]

But the question still remains, what gives the Pointy Hat license to comment on climate change?

[ColevilleH2S]

Got 10 minutes to learn about population, poverty and food production?

[blackpowder]

When His Holiness advocates for nuclear power I'll take notice.

[grassfarmer]

Braveheart, it's just not true to say China and India are the big polluters - yes, you see some primitive systems belching smoke and toxins over there but their fuel usage/C02 production per person is miniscule compared to North America.

Agree with your thoughts on the Church of Rome though - I've no time for it.

[freewheat]

Forage farmer, I do not feel any human with a brain would think that humans do not affect the planet. But thinking we are affecting climate, is a lot rich. If the pope feels we can change the climate, and prevent catastrophe, great, good for him. But he is mistaken and confused. Maybe he should actually read his Bible, and he would realize that climate will be the far least of our concerns. Maybe he should start reading his Bible, and start working on some of the concerns it mentions will one day happen, and try to deal with them???

Me thinks he is not reading his Bible, which is quite interesting for a fellow who is supposed to be so well versed in it's contents, huh?

[tmyrfield]

Makes sense. Both global warming and religion are fairy tales told to the simple minded to guilt them into giving money to the schemers.

[Wheatking]

So let me get this straight. Most people here want people to accept GMO's because science has proven their safety. Yet out of the same mouth you say global warming is fiction and the scientists don't know what they are talking about. So what is it do we trust science and scientists or not. You guys a f'n insane

[sawfly]

sure lets get the popes vast scientific
knowledge.
and make our decisions based on it .

i am not saying he is wrong.
i don't know.

while we are at it , why not hear Peter Griffin from Family guy.
He's got Lois for a wife.
so he probably talks to god once in a while too.

better get 2 informed opinions
before we do anything drastic

[cottonpicken]

Some people think oil comes from dead dinosaurs,some dont know water can come from space. Everything is way more complicated then it seems and there is so much we don't know

[cottonpicken]

Science is also completly fallible,an entire generation was hoodwinked into believing the most insane nutritional guidelines. Sugar is benign and eggs are bad. When you take a step back and look at it it's really amazing.

[foragefarmer]

Freewheat

"I do not feel any human with a brain would think that humans do not affect the planet. But thinking we are affecting climate, is a lot rich."

So what you are saying is the damages humans are doing to the earth is in no way going to have any effect on the climate now or in the future

Freewheat, the Bible was written thousands of years ago, and what exactly does the Bible have to do with Climate Change and Global Warming discussion?

[freewheat]

Humans have caused damage, but it is not affecting the climate. If it were, the eons of prior, much more rapid climate change was caused by? By what?

Regarding the Bible. It is relevant because I am quite familiar with it. The good pope should be as well. But he obviously is not, because if he were, he would be in Iran, Israel, Syria, etc., making peace as one small example, doing his darndest to fix the REAL problems. The Bible has strong hints about Iran, for example but not a thing about climate change caused by mankind. I guess that is why I wonder why he is avoiding the true issues, and attacking the non-existant one from his own guidebook???