Pope Francis: Climate Change Deniers Are ‘Stupid
Breitbart,
by
Thomas D. Williams PhD
Original Article
Posted By: mc squared,
4/26/2024 9:57:59 AM
Pope Francis told CBS News this week that climate change deniers are “stupid” even in the face of compelling evidence of a climate emergency.
“Some people are stupid (necios), and stupid even if you show them research, they don’t believe it,” the pontiff told CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell when asked what he would say to the deniers of climate change.
“Why? Because they don’t understand the situation, or because of their interests, but climate change exists,” the 87-year-old pope asserted.
Pope Francis had never before sat down for an extensive interview, one-on-one, with a U.S. television network during the course of his 11-year pontificate.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MOBeef4u 4/26/2024 10:05:47 AM (No. 1706452)
It’s not “the Pope’s church”. The Church has survived bad popes in the past and I have faith that it will survive this one as well. When Jesus instituted his church with Peter (rock) as its head He said that the gates of hell would not prevail against it. Evil may assail the Church but it will not prevail. I hold on to that.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Lake Dweller 4/26/2024 10:15:22 AM (No. 1706461)
Perhaps the worst Pope in history. He is a Marxist and a fraud. The Churxh needs to be retired when he ‘leaves’.
No, Francis, YOU are stupid.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Quigley 4/26/2024 10:16:17 AM (No. 1706463)
Well, oh mighty poop, explain it all to us that we may be enlightened like you as a stream of bat p*ss in the darkness: what are the causes, what are the mechanisms for each cause, and what are the precise results of those causes and their effects on the planet and its inhabitants? And, explain in the same fashion each forward looking prediction relating to climate change and why each prediction concerning a time which has now passed has failed to comport with the climate change prediction. And explain how you don't use air conditioning, heating, petroleum products, and goods which are manufactured and distributed using petroleum products, and have thus reduced your carbon footprint to zero (but not through carbon credit schemes).
Then we won't be stupid, pope. It just takes a little reasoning on your part. A little outreach. Less with the ad hominins.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
danoso 4/26/2024 10:17:32 AM (No. 1706464)
Someone in his business probably shouldn’t call people stupid for having insufficient faith.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Kate318 4/26/2024 10:22:44 AM (No. 1706469)
Pure projection from one of the ugliest popes in history.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/26/2024 10:23:06 AM (No. 1706470)
Sad to see the papacy resort to leftist rhetoric and propaganda. If the left can infiltrate an organization like the papacy, it can infiltrate any social organization. All other religious organizations and social organizations should beware if it isn't already too late. The article mentions the Pope's age (87). Unfortunately, when he passes away, he will likely be replaced with a like-minded thinker or even someone more extreme.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Axeman 4/26/2024 10:26:09 AM (No. 1706473)
God made the climate to change. It will always change. I would have to be stupid to deny that.
I would have to be stupidly evil to say there is proof that we humans are causing Earth damaging climate change.
I absolutely deny that there is proof, not evidence, proof of this. Models are not even good evidence.
Facts need proof. That is the non-stupid way to look at "climate change".
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
plomke 4/26/2024 10:26:11 AM (No. 1706474)
The immediate future of the Church reflects that of modern western civilization.
Pretty damn bleak...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
franq 4/26/2024 10:33:44 AM (No. 1706483)
You know it's bad when you see stories like this.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
hisself 4/26/2024 10:35:31 AM (No. 1706487)
Excuse me, your holiness, but you are not a climate scientist, and you do not know what you are talking about! Papal ignorance of reality is not a new thing, but you take it to extremes.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 4/26/2024 10:36:46 AM (No. 1706488)
Well, then I guess I am intellectually stupid according to this pope, a false prophet in my opinion. Another thing I see happening with all of these climate change elitists, they may consider themselves to be intellectually smart but they seem to be spiritually depraved, starved or blind. Maybe all of them. As far as I am concerned, God takes care of those things like climate change and we humans need to be good stewards. I have to tell you that all of the cars I see with bumper stickers about this very subject usually look like crap. That's right, I am really convinced that they are so concerned about climate change and can't even take care of a car. . .
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/26/2024 10:38:05 AM (No. 1706490)
Climate change deniers would certainly be stupid to give any money to this Pope.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Snow Possum 4/26/2024 10:38:28 AM (No. 1706491)
#1,
Simon was given the name 'Peter' because he was the first to recognize that Jesus was the Christ.
Jesus was NOT saying "I will build my Church upon this impetuous fisherman who will deny my three times in the no too distant future". He WAS saying "I will build my church upon the ROCK foundation that I am the Christ and, Simon, I'm changing your name to commemorate you as the first to see it."
What THEOLOGICAL sense does a singular MAN who has a position to God different than all OTHER men make? There IS no 'pope' in the sense of a special standing before God. The pope is a man made convention born out of poor theology and a single scriptural reference that is as theologically weak as a soaking wet paper lunch bag.
Jesus even uses two different words when describing the MAN and the foundational truth. Peter (petros) is the masculine form and petra (the foundational truth) is the feminine form.
And, at no other point in scripture is Peter considered to be ANYTHING other than an Apostle like the other 11. If Peter was INDEED occupying a unique position as the successor to Christ (makes zero theological sense) and we never read another reference to this ever again... that would be like reading a history of the early USA and never reading that George Washington was the first President.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 4/26/2024 10:39:50 AM (No. 1706495)
So sayeth Jorge Bergoglio. the left hand of Satan
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The biggest problem with this pope is I now have doubts about the bathroom habits of bears.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Zbogwan2 4/26/2024 10:45:07 AM (No. 1706499)
Pope Francis, if you want to see stupid, just look in the mirror!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Californian 4/26/2024 10:51:24 AM (No. 1706504)
He's 87. They can try again soon.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
sunnyges 4/26/2024 10:51:51 AM (No. 1706505)
At least he didn't declare climate denial a mortal sin.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
paral04 4/26/2024 10:54:28 AM (No. 1706508)
LOL The climate changes all the time. The issue is it caused by humans? Since we have records of temperatures going back many years before carbon based fuels, there were periods of cold temperatures and then warmer periods. How do they explain the warm Middle Ages? The people who are stupid are those who think they can force their voodoo science on the rest of us.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Safari Man 4/26/2024 11:02:16 AM (No. 1706511)
To be called stupid by this pope is a badge of honor.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
kono 4/26/2024 11:06:40 AM (No. 1706515)
Unquestionably a passing comment and not a doctrinal declaration.
I wish he would refrain from the editorial comments and in response to media 'gotcha' statements / questions.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
SkyKing1222 4/26/2024 11:06:59 AM (No. 1706517)
He seems to be lacking in his basic theological knowledge.
“Thou shall not worship false Gods “
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
MarkTwain 4/26/2024 11:08:17 AM (No. 1706518)
Nice try. But you can't divert our attention from the corruption and perversion within your church. Clean up your own house first. We see what you're doing and it's not going to work.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
padiva 4/26/2024 11:12:42 AM (No. 1706525)
'even if you show them research,'
The research is assumptions. I don't assume.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/26/2024 11:14:40 AM (No. 1706527)
I am certainly not a climate denier. But I am a denier that we can stop climate change by driving electric cars and stop using coal.
This Pope has never been one of my favorites, and if you make a very simple study of the history of the Cathloic Church I believe you will find he is not the worst, but his placing himself in the role of dipping into leftist ideology is pretty stupid on his part. He should definitely stick to what he is supposed to be an expert in. The Church and not political affairs.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
DVC 4/26/2024 11:14:51 AM (No. 1706528)
Once again, this leftist idiot has it precisely backwards. Those of us who THINK and UNDERSTAND know that the activitise of mankind have ZERO effect on the global climate.
And simultaneously, the global climate subtly does change continuously, without any regard to what we think or do, based on the effects of the variability of the sun's output, solar wind changes which greatly affect high altitude cloud formation, and millenial long orbital variations.
Frankly, this "pope" is a Communist dupe and a perfect example of a useful idiot. I'm old enough to remember when the popes were all good Catholics, not Communist dupes.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
walcb 4/26/2024 11:16:31 AM (No. 1706531)
He needs to tell John Coleman.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 4/26/2024 11:17:55 AM (No. 1706533)
Stupid am as stupid do, pope-o.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Robert D 4/26/2024 11:21:24 AM (No. 1706536)
Calling someone stupid is not far from calling someone "raca." I am curious what Jesus would say in response to this "Pope." Matthew 5:22.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
rytwng 4/26/2024 11:21:54 AM (No. 1706537)
he's the poope.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
downnout 4/26/2024 11:22:19 AM (No. 1706538)
The pope should be concerned about the Catholicism, not the climate.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
bpl40 4/26/2024 11:32:15 AM (No. 1706545)
Does His Holiness really understand what he is talking about?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Sully 4/26/2024 11:35:05 AM (No. 1706548)
I would have thought it was a sin to "Hide The Decline."
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
smokincol 4/26/2024 11:35:06 AM (No. 1706549)
how dare he make a statement like that!!! and what gives him the authority to pass judgment on people he doesn't even know
which makes him sound more like a demcommie than any kind of Patriarch of the Church that I've ever seen
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Digger 4/26/2024 11:37:49 AM (No. 1706552)
My practice is never to take advice from a guy wearing a dress.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Plex 4/26/2024 11:41:04 AM (No. 1706556)
Perhaps you could show some of the compelling evidence. All I see is long term cooling.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
cold porridge 4/26/2024 11:42:03 AM (No. 1706558)
This illegitimate communist pope is the idiot. Of course climate change is real. Earth's climate has been changing since it's existence. Its not man made to any degree. Global warming is a scam. Living near the Canadian border I would welcome more warmth. The pope is a globalist = evil = WEF = UN.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Geoman 4/26/2024 11:42:09 AM (No. 1706559)
What is beyond stupid is thinking that draconian, coercive government actions to jettison the very underpinnings of western civilization and the foundations upon which America's standard of living was built, are justified based on a gaggle of decidedly non-scientific politicians and activists, pretenders like their checked entitled do-rag wearing terrorist wannabe spawn, who today proudly proclaim from Ivy League institutions, "I am Hamas," have anointed themselves to be the experts of all things climate, ignoring and insulting God. They are all clueless, but not harmless, idiots, not knowing where the food they stuff into their gross, fat faces comes from or how it got to their store shelves or on their good China plates.. No climate change expert (delusional democrat) has ever addressed the geologic record's evidence of massive changes to the Earth's climate as can be observed in the rock and fossil records world wide. Paleo-climate change was the norm with shallow oceans, rich with sea life, covering land the was previously an arid desert, which itself may be covering worn down mountain ranges, buried miles deep in sediment from millions of years of constantly shifting climate. All the while, their climate-based extortion schemes, convert the fruits of human labor into jet-setting, Wagu beef-feasting, Cognac-swilling lifestyles for themselves and their cult-like cronies, as they seek to deny the working class the means to sustain their lives and families. Our climate "betters" only seek to live like Kardashians, while the working class who support their lifestyles grow poor and hungry. There is not a single French nobleman, who lost his/her head in the late 1700s, more deserving of that fate than today's climate change experts and politicians, bent on mass murder on a horrific scale. Before civilization fully crumbles, one can only help ensure that the heads of our climate betters adorn the lampposts of our dying cities, a more personal form of the Mutually Assured Destruction concept, under which most of us were raised during the Cold War.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Talk2 4/26/2024 11:43:17 AM (No. 1706560)
He is a communist, has always been a communist, and will probably die a communist.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
valinva 4/26/2024 11:50:23 AM (No. 1706565)
I seem to recall a pope that forced Galileo to recant his statements that the earth and planets revolved around the sun and celled the belief foolishness and then forced him to spend spend the last years of his life under house arrest after being found guilty of heresy.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
rememberwhen 4/26/2024 12:05:07 PM (No. 1706573)
Eau contraire. Climate change deniers have a clue. Climate change advocates are either deluded or disingenuous.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
synchronicity 4/26/2024 12:22:24 PM (No. 1706590)
Frank the Woke has become quite the bellwether - you can't go too far astray if you think / do the opposite of His Wokeness. And since when has being mean, petty and thinking you are infallible in matters of celestial thermodynamics (least we forget that the Sun contributes 99+% of the Earth's heat) been a good look for anyone?
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/26/2024 12:45:26 PM (No. 1706604)
If Frankie thinks that humans can destroy the earth, he doesn’t have much faith in God.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
hershey 4/26/2024 12:50:36 PM (No. 1706611)
Hey Mr. Popee....we know who is stupid...go back behind your walls with your Swiss guards and shut your piehole...
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Newtsche 4/26/2024 12:52:03 PM (No. 1706613)
Am NOT!
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
hershey 4/26/2024 12:54:11 PM (No. 1706616)
You want to see what MIGHT happen with these climate change fools, read 'Toxic Prey' by John Sanford...scary stuff...
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/26/2024 1:02:09 PM (No. 1706622)
Stupid is what Leftists/Marxists are, they believe LIES.
Normal people think and since Climate Change/Global Warming/Global Cooling are all made up BS so the Marxists can control the narrative, denying all that is the only intelligent conclusion.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 4/26/2024 1:21:15 PM (No. 1706637)
The climate is always changing, but not necessarily how the Democrats have been stating.
After all, the last Ice Age had much of Canada, Wisconsin, Chicago and other parts of North America under hundreds of feet of ice which is no longer there (e.g. climate changed).
They are using the issue to increase the size and scope of government to regulate the economy. They want to pick the winners and the losers.
Why isn't China, Russia, India and most non-Western countries as concerned as those in the West?
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
smaricic 4/26/2024 1:26:55 PM (No. 1706638)
#13,
You might be right about that Petros -- Petra thing if Jesus was speaking Ancient Greek. But he was most likely speaking Aramaic, and from what I have read, there is only one word for rock in Aramaic: kepha
Baptist scholar D.A. Carson, writes, in The Expositor’s Bible Commentary,
"The underlying Aramaic is in this case unquestionable; and most probably kepha was used in both clauses (“you are kepha” and “on this kepha”), since the word was used both for a name and for a “rock.” The Peshitta (written in Syriac, a language cognate with a dialect of Aramaic) makes no distinction between the words in the two clauses."
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
Rather Read 4/26/2024 1:47:41 PM (No. 1706648)
Well I guess I'm stupid. Please College of Cardinals. Please elect Robert Sarah from Guinea. He is African, he is holy, he is intelligent and devout. We need him.
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 4/26/2024 1:54:44 PM (No. 1706655)
So are Popes who think themselves as meteorologists or weather scientists
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
thudlike 4/26/2024 2:14:59 PM (No. 1706668)
Not a smart man, never mind a holy man.
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
swarfer 4/26/2024 2:45:02 PM (No. 1706690)
I suppose popes called Galileo stupid as well. Pope Francis has an amazing ability to offend and insult people, especially Catholics. Popes JohnPaul and Benedict are sadly missed.
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 4/26/2024 2:58:56 PM (No. 1706701)
There's never been an IQ test for Pope.
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
JimBob 4/26/2024 3:02:52 PM (No. 1706703)
I read an article a couple of weeks ago describing how England's King Charles has co-opted many large organizations -including most of the world's religions- into his 'save the Earth' campaign, even though the whole thing is based on lies and has the objective of establishing a one-world government.
This article -and Frankie- fall right in line.
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Reply 56 - Posted by:
kono 4/26/2024 3:18:23 PM (No. 1706711)
Wait, is he basically calling us 'raqa'? Maybe asking for a friend...
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Reply 57 - Posted by:
ironchefw 4/26/2024 3:30:53 PM (No. 1706720)
This pope is one of the dumbest ever.
Every closed coal fired power plant in the west has been replaced by a coal fired plant in China or India.
While climate change may be occurring, for sure, most of the remedies prescribed by the elites are just more socialism.
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Reply 58 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/26/2024 3:32:18 PM (No. 1706721)
He can't pass a 12 question test about the Bible, which is SUPPOSED to be his area of expertise. There's only one thing that matters in Heaven, and that has nothing whatsoever to do with "climate."
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Reply 59 - Posted by:
rosefenn 4/26/2024 3:54:18 PM (No. 1706727)
Holiness, stick with dogma & the extraordinary magisterium, please.
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Reply 60 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/26/2024 4:04:45 PM (No. 1706735)
#1, Jesus said, in Matthew 10:2: "And I tell you that you are 'Petros' (Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular), and on this 'Petra' (Noun - Dative Feminine Singular) I shall build My Church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it."
In the Greek:
1) Pétra (a feminine noun) – "a mass of connected rock," which is distinct from Pétros, which is "a detached stone or boulder"
2) Pétros (a masculine noun) – properly, a stone (pebble), such as a small rock found along a pathway.
So which one would Jesus Christ, the Creator of our Universe, build His Church's one-foundation upon? A stone chip, or a massive stone? For those who like to equate the "pebble" with the "boulder," consider the contradictory noun genders. Not possible. Jesus Christ is "The Rock." Paraphrasing this passage is like Jesus saying, "OK, Simon, you are a Pebble, but on 'THIS' (pointing to Himself) Rock, I will build My Church."
Early CatholicTheologians did not fully grasp Greek, instead they relied on the Latin "Vulgate" translation for their understanding of Scripture. Had they been experts in Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic, they might have avoided numerous fallacies and outright blasphemies.
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Reply 61 - Posted by:
BarryNo 4/26/2024 5:01:02 PM (No. 1706763)
Some Popes are heretics.
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Reply 62 - Posted by:
Mike22 4/26/2024 5:08:35 PM (No. 1706769)
I see the Pope has three Theology degrees. I don't recall advanced physics, heat transfer, advanced calculus, thermodynamics or advanced calculus in the curriculum in any theology school. So how is he to judge that the models that suggest that catastrophic anthropogenic climate change is imminent? Do Catholic Theologians get a lot of training in evaluating experimental research or numerical modeling? To which models is the pope referring? Has he looked into how many of the "gold standard" measurement stations have been compromised by the urban heat island effect? One study estimated 90 percent. Was the change in the paint on the enclosures from white wash to latex paint was properly taken into account? It appears that it results in a 1 degree Fahrenheit increase in the temperature measured. I read that the measurement stations in Siberia were lost when the Soviet Union fell. How was the loss of data handled? Why does the satellite data need correction? What happened to the Royal Navy data covering hundreds of years of ocean soundings that showed ocean temperatures higher than the warmists models? Reportedly a great number of rural stations were removed in a cost cutting measure and the temperature was estimated by interpolating the readings from surrounding stations - were those stations compromised by urban heat island effects?
Reportedly the global, gold standard, measuring system was finished in the 50s. How do we predict global temperatures for far in the future working with 70 years in the face of the questions above?
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Reply 63 - Posted by:
thekidsmom66 4/26/2024 5:22:50 PM (No. 1706777)
We feel the same about you, Frankie
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Reply 64 - Posted by:
FormerDem 4/26/2024 5:26:02 PM (No. 1706778)
climate change exists and it always has, what is not demonstrated is the attribution to human activity, and there is a mendacious kind of arbitrage of vocabulary by which "climate change" when scientists demonstrate means change in the climate, but 'climate change" when global institutions speak of it, including when they quote those scientists, means change due to human economic acitivty, It is a kind of arbitrage and in the difference of definitions they have put global power in their pockets.
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Reply 65 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 4/26/2024 5:50:29 PM (No. 1706787)
Pope Francis is not a Christian.
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Reply 66 - Posted by:
Historybuff 4/26/2024 7:23:31 PM (No. 1706827)
He's right.
BUT
The climate is always changing. The very phrase is redundant.
Tell me when the climate WASN'T changing.
Those sun spots have a lot more to do with it than I do.
Why to you think the earth was finished when you got here?
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Reply 67 - Posted by:
danu 4/26/2024 10:03:22 PM (No. 1706879)
deliver us from evil, Lord....
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Reply 68 - Posted by:
dovestar 4/26/2024 10:32:44 PM (No. 1706894)
If Christ were referring to a pebble, the word in Greek would be lithos. He didn't. The Church still stands. Francis is an apostate. We were warned these times would come. Fatima, Akita and the Vision of Leo XIII.
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Reply 69 - Posted by:
mifla 4/27/2024 5:47:01 AM (No. 1706996)
I miss the days of JPII and Reagan. You too, Maggie.
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Reply 70 - Posted by:
5 handicap 4/27/2024 6:14:13 AM (No. 1707005)
Tell me again about the INFALLIBILITY of the Pope. As G_d"s representative on earth, he really sucks!
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Reply 71 - Posted by:
danu 4/29/2024 12:46:08 AM (No. 1708042)
red frank was installed like a toilet - by the chi-cmz.
the doctrine of infallibility is limited, and should not apply to such a vile situation.
the RCC has faced this situation previously in its long history.
we will survive this abomination as well.
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I'm deplorable AND stupid. Guess I won't be going back to the Pope's Church.