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Few echo Popes environment plea in Sunday sermons
2015-06-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: On the first Sunday after Pope Francis issued a landmark document on the environment, Roman Catholics attending Mass in Kenya, France, Mexico, Peru and the United States said they were thankful that he was using his pulpit to address climate change, pollution and global inequality. But few priests or bishops other than in parts of Latin America used their own pulpits on Sunday to pass on the popes message, according to parish visits, interviews with Catholic leaders and reports from Catholics...
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Beyond climate hidden gem in Popes encyclical on making social media matter
2015-06-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The main conversation around Pope Franciss remarkable encyclical letter is appropriately on the core messages that human-driven climate change is dangerous; access to energy matters; that consumptive capitalism is a problem, not a solution. But there are other rich veins to tap, including a vital section on big challenges posed by the online and electronic media environment a world with too much information, more insularity than outreach, a fog of facts immersed in spin and fiction, a bias...
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Inhofe disputes pope's statements on global warming
2015-06-20 13:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bangor Daily News: Sen. Jim Inhofe, one the most well-known skeptics of man-made climate change, said Thursday he disagrees with Pope Francis statements on global warming and is concerned about the influence they might have. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, said in a statement he has supported programs to protect the environment, but challenged the popes statements that the science is settled in regard to climate change. Francis released a 184-page encyclical about climate change, saying people had come to see themselves...
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In the footsteps of popes seeking worldly change
2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: When an elderly Pope Leo XIII released a document in 1891 on the rights of workers to unionize and of owners to hold private property, European capitalists and socialists alike cried foul. Why should we listen, they fumed, to a popes pronouncements on economics and politics? Now, 124 years later, Pope Francis has set off an uproar over his document on the environment and the threat of climate change, an encyclical released Thursday called Laudato Si , or Praise Be to You: On Care for Our Common...
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Popes encyclical makes grade in climate science
2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: When it comes to the science of climate change, Pope Francis' environmentally focused encyclical makes the grade, experts said Thursday. Francis makes clear in the document that humanity bears most of the blame for the warming of the planet and he lays out the main findings of climate science -- that greenhouse gases are causing global temperatures to rise, that sea levels are also rising, that extreme weather events are becoming worse, and that polar ice is melting, further imperiling the planet....
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