Posted on 02/13/2019 10:15:55 AM PST by ebb tide
The Rev. Eduardo Scarel is best known for his role in advising Pope Francis on climate change. As such, he’s been dubbed the Pope’s climatologist. A Carmelite priest and atmospheric scientist, Scarel was in New Orleans earlier this week speaking with high school students and to an audience at the Notre Dame Seminary Tuesday evening.
Why does the Pope need a climatologist? “Because the care for environment, for nature requires to see the state of the planet,” Scarel said. “And the tools of science provide the best way to see.”
Scarel helped advise Pope Francis on the Pope’s 2015 encyclical about climate change. An encyclical is a letter to Catholic leadership clarifying the church’s stance on an issue. The 2015 encyclical argued that humans have a moral imperative to address climate change.
But the message wasn’t intended to stop with clergy. While not all priests are atmospheric scientists like Scarel, he said they should speak with their parishioners about human-induced climate change. “It’s a matter of global justice,” he said. “We now have many nations that are suffering the direct impacts of climate change.”
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SMDH! srsly? Yeah, I can believe it. Let us know when he finds evidence of GWB blowing up the levees.
Ping
ROTFL. Trying to get a jump on Mardi Gras?
This madness is NOT the Catholic Church I grew up in.
Pope-a-dope doesn’t need a climatologist. He needs to go to Cathechism class to learn about his religion.
Eduardo? Must be a “Hispanic” guy.
The Pope has gotten his shot across the bow.
“Start backing Obama or we are going to sue the Catholic Church for all you’ve got”
They did it to Microsoft, Intel and Google and everyone of them started actively backing Democrats.
Every CEO at Intel was a Republican until Obama came into power.
BK was so bad the Board had to fabricate an ethics violation to get rid of him.
Nice time of the year to visit NOLA and partake of some of the finest dining in the Western World.
Cool days, crisp nights. Minimal crowds prior to Mardi Gras.
IIRC, you get imprisoned if you don’t agree with a pope.
perhaps Scarel can explain to everyone first, before we enact trillions of dollars in fines, regulations, taxes and laws how just 0.00136% of the atmosphere can possibly create a thick enough GLOBAL BLANKET to trap heat globally to raise earth’s temperature to ‘catastrophic levels’?
How bout the pope explain it to us since he’s pushing this nonsense without a care in the world as to how it’s goi9ng to severely cripple the poor financially! But what does he care? He’s a multi-millionaire!
St. Francis the Climatologist.
Scare El.
The alarmist from Krypton
The Pope and the Catholic Church is all in name only. I do not care for nor recognize this new church and faux pope.
I remember the Philippines asking for “climate justice” which means “send money” and we’ll figure out what to with it.
Il Papa has a “climatologist?” I can maybe see a weather man, but a climatologist?
Did Pope Benedict have a climatologist?
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“This madness is NOT the Catholic Church I grew up in.”
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Same here. All the money I put in the collection basket when I was younger....I want it back, with interest!
Isn’t New Orleans located below sea level?
How con-—ven-—ient!
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