Posted on 02/20/2016 5:54:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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."
As president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, which also includes St. Thomas human rights professor Roza Pati, Turkson played a critical role in helping Francis draft the historic encyclical released last year. Leading up to the United Nations Paris talks that ended with a global pact to reduce carbon emissions, the manifest put the pope squarely in the middle of the debate, drawing praise for adding his significant influence to the issue and flack for meddling with what critics called a secular topic...
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Gee, I wish this man would shut up!
I would like the pols to address Climate Change too.
Loudly call it out for the hoax that it is.
Someone is over stepping their authority.
Shut this $%@* idiot up!!! Please !!!!
I really don’t want to hear anything more from this pope until he turns over all the pedophiles instead of allowing them to be hidden.
The International Socialist Pope needs to be concerned with Religion Change.
He don't like Rhode Island ... or ... Minnesota ?
Why Florida ?
Planning on retirin' there ?
Somebody needs to let out the seams on his Mitre.
Seen a lot like him .... brain cells fried by dope.
The commie pope is not only proving his idiocy, but he is also proving his irrevalance as a leader...
The first Marxist Pope. Ain’t it grand?
Aren't too many in that pew.
Why can’t this guy mind his own business???
Priests molesting kids all over the place and this guy’s worried about climate change??
It is “God’s waiting room” as they say.
The pope has no business telling us how to run our country.
He needs to focus on what he was put in position for, and that is leading his own church.
File 13.
I wish the Pope and his flacks would realize that climate change is caused by the hole from hell to earth that the devil uses and that they would be better served to close that hole.
This pope has over stepped his authority so many times that he thinks it’s his right.
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