Comments on: Pope to preach on climate change http://www.greenbang.com/pope-to-preach-on-climate-change_3705.html Sustainable Energy Insight Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:18:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Fairthorne http://www.greenbang.com/pope-to-preach-on-climate-change_3705.html/comment-page-1#comment-3626 David Fairthorne Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:57:59 +0000 http://www.greenbang.com/3705/pope-to-preach-on-climate-change/#comment-3626 The Church has never been exactly in the forefront of science. The Pope may know the word of God (if there is one) but I certainly wouldn't take his word about global warming. Many of us have been brainwashed into thinking that global warming is a serious threat to the planet; some politicians go so far as to make the immodest claim that they want to curb carbon dioxide emissions in order "to save the planet". Along with many well qualified scientists, I am persuaded that this is a false alarm. Global warming is a gradual process. It has been happening since about 1850 at a rate of about one degree per century. It brings benefits to many parts of the world in the form of longer growing seasons. More carbon dioxide and greater precipitation are good for plant growth. There were other warm periods at the time of the Roman empire and in the medieval period. In between there were cooler periods. Nobody knows how much global warming is caused by industrial emissions of greenhouse gases and how much is due to other causes such as sunspots or cosmic rays. For an explanation of both the "consensus" view and the "skeptical" view I recommend the web site http://www.climatechangefacts.info/ . Also there are many good books on the subject including "The Deniers" by Lawrence Solomon, which tells the stories of some skeptical climate scientists.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('3626','David Fairthorne'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('3626','David Fairthorne','The Church has never been exactly in the forefront of science. The Pope may know the word of God (if there is one) but I certainly wouldn\'t take his word about global warming.\r\n\r\nMany of us have been brainwashed into thinking that global warming is a serious threat to the planet; some politicians go so far as to make the immodest claim that they want to curb carbon dioxide emissions in order \"to save the planet\".\r\n\r\nAlong with many well qualified scientists, I am persuaded that this is a false alarm. Global warming is a gradual process. It has been happening since about 1850 at a rate of about one degree per century. It brings benefits to many parts of the world in the form of longer growing seasons. More carbon dioxide and greater precipitation are good for plant growth. There were other warm periods at the time of the Roman empire and in the medieval period. In between there were cooler periods.\r\n\r\nNobody knows how much global warming is caused by industrial emissions of greenhouse gases and how much is due to other causes such as sunspots or cosmic rays.\r\n\r\nFor an explanation of both the \"consensus\" view and the \"skeptical\" view I recommend the web site http:\/\/www.climatechangefacts.info\/ . Also there are many good books on the subject including \"The Deniers\" by Lawrence Solomon, which tells the stories of some skeptical climate scientists.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> The Church has never been exactly in the forefront of science. The Pope may know the word of God (if there is one) but I certainly wouldn’t take his word about global warming.

Many of us have been brainwashed into thinking that global warming is a serious threat to the planet; some politicians go so far as to make the immodest claim that they want to curb carbon dioxide emissions in order “to save the planet”.

Along with many well qualified scientists, I am persuaded that this is a false alarm. Global warming is a gradual process. It has been happening since about 1850 at a rate of about one degree per century. It brings benefits to many parts of the world in the form of longer growing seasons. More carbon dioxide and greater precipitation are good for plant growth. There were other warm periods at the time of the Roman empire and in the medieval period. In between there were cooler periods.

Nobody knows how much global warming is caused by industrial emissions of greenhouse gases and how much is due to other causes such as sunspots or cosmic rays.

For an explanation of both the “consensus” view and the “skeptical” view I recommend the web site http://www.climatechangefacts.info/ . Also there are many good books on the subject including “The Deniers” by Lawrence Solomon, which tells the stories of some skeptical climate scientists.

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]]> By: Peter http://www.greenbang.com/pope-to-preach-on-climate-change_3705.html/comment-page-1#comment-3624 Peter Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:33:43 +0000 http://www.greenbang.com/3705/pope-to-preach-on-climate-change/#comment-3624 'The Pope has told reporters while flying to Australia ... that people need to be spurred into changing their lifestyles because of climate change.' LOL. Subtle, guys!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('3624','Peter'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('3624','Peter','\'The Pope has told reporters while flying to Australia ... that people need to be spurred into changing their lifestyles because of climate change.\'\r\n\r\nLOL. Subtle, guys!'); return false;">Quote</a></div> ‘The Pope has told reporters while flying to Australia … that people need to be spurred into changing their lifestyles because of climate change.’

LOL. Subtle, guys!

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