U-T San Diego: Thrilled but not surprised.
Veerabhadran Ramanathan felt that way last week when Pope Francis delivered a powerful encyclical pleading with the world to deal with climate change. The UC San Diego climate scientist helped shape the Pope's thinking as a member of the Vaticans Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
I saw a draft of the Popes message months ago, said Ramanathan, who works out of UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Some of the words he ended up using are different. But the...