Pope Says Global Warming Is A ‘Sin Against Creation’ – ‘Climate change is also contributing to the heart-rending refugee crisis’ 

http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/01/pope-says-global-warming-is-a-sin-against-creation/

Pope Francis wants Catholics to know environmental damage and global warming are “sins against creation.”

Francis’s announcement, entitled “Show Mercy to our Common Home”  appealed for “people of faith and goodwill” to come together in “showing mercy to the earth as our common home and cherishing the world in which we live as a place for sharing and communion.”

Francis defined a sin against creation as humans degrading the integrity of the earth by causing changes in the climate or contaminating earth’s waters, land, air and life.

“To commit a crime against the natural world is a sin against ourselves and a sin against God,” the pope said Thursday. “Let us repent of the harm we are doing to our common home.”

 

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    Francis’s message directly told the world’s Catholics that they should start “avoiding the use of plastic and paper, reducing water consumption, separating refuse, cooking only what can reasonably be consumed, showing care for other living beings, using public transport or car-pooling, planting trees, turning off unnecessary lights, or any number of other practices.”

    Francis even blamed global warming for the Syrian Civil War, the rise of Islamic State, and the resulting refugee crisis, saying that “climate change is also contributing to the heart-rending refugee crisis.” The left-leaning fact checking website Politifact ruled a similar attempt by former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders “mostly false” in November.

    Francis has been heavily praised by environmentalists last year for writing the encyclical Laudato S, which lays out the supposed moral predicaments associated with environmental degradation. The pontiff heavily praised President Barack Obama last September for “reducing air pollution” and taking the fight against global warming seriously. Francis met with the actor Leonardo DiCaprio in January to discuss the threat global warming poses to the planet.

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    Special Report: ‘Unholy Alliance’ – Exposing The Radicals Advising Pope Francis on Climate

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    PLAYING GOD? Tens of millions spent on huge project to change the WEATHER – ‘Putting chemicals in the sky’

    China are ploughing more than £22million into shooting salt-and-mineral-filled bullets into the sky in a bid to make it rain.

    But Beijing is not alone in its pursuit to play God with the weather, with at least 52 countries, including the US, using weather modification techniques which allows authorities to clear the skies or make it rain.

    Droughts in places such as the the US and China are one of the biggest constraints on their farming industries, which is why scientists are working to eradicate the the prolonged dry seasons.

    They will do this by putting chemicals in the sky.…

    Paper: ‘Climate Change’ is California’s official state religion

    http://www.ocregister.com/articles/state-719782-climate-religious.html

    In a state ruled by a former Jesuit, perhaps we should not be shocked to find ourselves in the grip of an incipient state religion. Of course, this religion is not actually Christianity, or even anything close to the dogma of Catholicism, but something that increasingly resembles the former Soviet Union, or present-day Iran and Saudi Arabia, than the supposed world center of free, untrammeled expression.

    Two pieces of legislation introduced in the Legislature last session, but not yet enacted, show the power of the new religion. One is Senate Bill 1146, which seeks to limit the historically broad exemptions the state and federal governments have provided religious schools to, well, be religious.

    Under the rubric of official “tolerance,” the bill would only allow religiously focused schools to deviate from the secular orthodoxy required at nonreligious schools, including support for transgender bathrooms or limitations on expressions of faith by students and even Christian university presidents, in a much narrower range of educational activity than ever before. Many schools believe the bill would needlessly risk their mission and funding to “solve” gender and social equity problems on their campuses that currently don’t exist.

    The second piece of legislation, thankfully temporarily tabled, Senate Bill 1161, the Orwellian-named “California Climate Science Truth and Accountability Act of 2016,” would have dramatically extended the period of time that state officials could prosecute anyone who dared challenge the climate orthodoxy, including statements made decades ago. It would have sought “redress for unfair competition practices committed by entities that have deceived, confused or misled the public on the risks of climate change or financially supported activities that have deceived, confused or misled the public on those risks.”…

    EPA Chief encourages ‘shell shocked’ climate faithful in wake of SCOTUS slap down: ‘Keep the faith’

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    http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060038280

    Emails show a bloodied but unbowed EPA after rule freeze

    Elizabeth Harball, E&E reporter

    Greenwire: Friday, June 3, 2016

    Six minutes past midnight on Feb. 10 — five hours after the Supreme Court stayed President Obama’s signature climate change rule — a U.S. EPA assistant administrator expressed shock in an email to her colleagues in the Office of Air and Radiation.

    “Can’t believe this,” Lori Stewart wrote to acting air chief Janet McCabe and Joe Goffman, the air office’s associate assistant administrator and senior counsel.

    Emails between top EPA officials after the high court’s surprise decision to stay the Clean Power Plan, obtained by E&E through a Freedom of Information Act request, reveal both disappointment and a dogged determination to move forward on the rule after the Supreme Court’s unprecedented decision to stay the regulation.

    In the days after the stay was announced, the rule’s supporters sent emails of encouragement to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and other agency officials.

    “Thinking of you today — hang in there,” Cheryl LaFleur, a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, told McCarthy on Feb. 10.

    “Very thoughtful statement — thank you!” McCarthy replied.

    Wrote Heather Zichal, former deputy assistant to Obama for energy and climate change, in a Feb. 11 email to McCabe: “I know it’s been a rough week. Just wanted you to know that I’m thinking about you.”

    EPA officials and their supporters cheered the news that a number of states would continue working on the Clean Power Plan despite the stay.

    Zichal ended her email to McCabe on an up note: “We went to bed on Tuesday knowing about the stay and concerned that we’d lose people on implementing CPP — and we went to bed Wednesday knowing that we are in exactly the same place we were before the ruling.”

    McCabe’s reply: “That is EXACTLY right!” She added, “We’re making gallons of lemonade.”

    Union of Concerned Scientists President Ken Kimmell wrote in a Feb. 12 email to McCabe: “I imagine that you must feel shell shocked right now. I know I do. I wanted you to know that we will do everything we can to keep progress moving while the litigation is pending, and to influence the outcome of the ruling on the merits.”

    McCabe told him, “Keeping the momentum — of which there is a lot — moving is critical, and a lot of …

    WATCH: ‘Eco-Sexual Wedding’: College Prof Leads Students to ‘Marry the Ocean’ (NOT A JOKE)

    Via: http://clashdaily.com/2016/05/watch-college-professor-leads-eco-sexual-students-marry-ocean-not-joke/

    by Cabot Phillips, Campus Reform

    Earlier this month, a professor at Santa Monica College led students in an ‘EcoSexual Sextravaganza’ in which participants ‘married the ocean.’

    Amber Katherine, a philosophy professor who helped organize the May 14 event, explained toCampus Reform that the purpose of the “wedding” was to bring about a deeper love for the planet through “ecocentric passion and even lust.”

    The ceremony began with Bruce Cartier, a former SMC student, proclaiming to those gathered at Santa Monica Beach that “today we stand upon this holy earth and in this sacred space to witness the rite of matrimony between the sea and us all.”

    Next, leaders of the event distributed rings to the students, announcing “with this ring, I bestow upon the sea the treasures of my mind heart and hands—as well as my body and soul. With the power vested in us, we now pronounce you ‘married to the sea.’”

    Some students then made their way down to the water, where they were urged by event organizers to “consummate” the marriage and “make love with the water.”

    “Stick your toes in the water … or any part of your body that you want.”

    The event, according to Professor Katherine, “was funded by a number of campus organizations” with the main sponsor being the University’s Public Policy Institute chapter.

    One attendee of the event—who identified herself only as “Serenity”—spoke about the importance of gaining consent from the earth before proceeding with a physical relationship.

    “Back when I would hug trees in Santa Cruz, I would sort of ask the tree if it was okay if I hugged it and I would feel their spirit or energy or something give a response back, and then proceed accordingly,” she told The Corsair. “Consent is definitely important. Do you think the Earth would consent to fracking and pollution? Probably not”.

    “It was actually our second marriage so it was kind of like renewing my vows for me,” added SMC EcoSexual Club president Diego Marquez.

    Follow the author of this article on Twitter: @cabot_phillips

    Originally published on Campus Reform

    MIT talk: ‘Is Islamophobia Accelerating Global Warming?’

    Via: Robert Spencer – https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/05/mit-talk-is-islamophobia-accelerating-global-warming

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    “Is ISLAMOPHOBIA accelerating global warming?,” MIT Global Studies and Languages, May 9, 2016 (thanks to Faisal Saeed AlMutar):

    The Ecology and Justice Forum In Global Studies And Languages Presents:
    Ghassan Hage

    Ghassan Hage is Future Generation Professor in the School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry, University of Melbourne

    Introduced By Bettina Stoetzer, Global Studies And Languages
    Mon. May 9
    5:00 pm
    2-105

    This talk examines the relation between Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today and the ecological crisis. It looks at the three common ways in which the two phenomena are seen to be linked: as an entanglement of two crises, metaphorically related with one being a source of imagery for the other and both originating in colonial forms of capitalist accumulation. The talk proposes a fourth way of linking the two: an argument that they are both emanating from a similar mode of being, or enmeshment, in the world, what is referred to as ‘generalised domestication.’

    Pope Francis adviser calls on Florida pols to address ‘climate change’

    http://www.bradenton.com/news/local/article61522002.html

    MIAMI — Florida politicians have a duty to address the perils of climate change even if they don’t believe humans are hastening its grave consequences, Pope Francis’ chief adviser on climate change said in an interview with the Miami Herald before addressing a weekend conference on climate, nature and society at St. Thomas University law school.

    Cardinal Peter Turkson said: “Anybody running for public office who sees the life of the people affected by climate-related disasters” needs to act.

    That, he said, includes the state’s two Republican presidential contenders — former Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio — who remain skeptical of the science tying climate change to increased carbon emissions.

    “You’ll not be shocked by this,” Turkson added. “I also know of a cardinal or two who don’t believe.”

    Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/news/local/article61522002.html#storylink=cpy…