climate change

University of Notre Dame, Pope Francis: Three years ago, Pope Francis issued a sweeping letter that highlighted the global crisis posed by climate change and called for swift action to save the environment and the planet. On June 9, 2018, the Pope gathered money managers and titans of the world’s biggest oil companies during a closed-door conference at the Vatican and asked them if they had gotten the message. “There is no time to lose,” Francis told them.

Paul Driessen, senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow, Pope Francis: We must “enter into dialogue with all people about our common home,” Pope Francis recently told the US Congress, frequently quoting from his Laudato Si encyclical. “We need a conversation which includes everyone, since the environmental challenge … and its human roots concern and affect us all.” I couldn’t agree more. Unfortunately, the pontiff seems more interested in a lecture than a conversation on climate change. The pope’s advisors believe humans are destroying our planet and dangerously changing its climate. This website shows over a thousand photos of how beautiful the world is today with snow falling from the Equator to the Poles. How much more snow do climate alarmists need in order that they will permit the world to continue using fossil fuels?

Pope Francis: Deterioration has increased in recent decades: constant pollution, continued use of fossil fuels, intensive agricultural exploitation and deforestation are causing global temperatures to rise above safe levels. The increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather phenomena and the desertification of the soil are causing immense hardship for the most vulnerable among us. Melting of glaciers, scarcity of water, neglect of water basins and the considerable presence of plastic and microplastics in the oceans are equally troubling, and testify to the urgent need for interventions that can no longer be postponed. We have caused a climate emergency that gravely threatens nature and life itself, including our own. Now is the time to repent and return to our roots.

Pope Francis: In his message, the Argentine pope denounced that efforts to combat climate change are often frustrated by those who deny the science behind it or are indifferent to it, those who are resigned to it or think it can be solved by technical solutions, which he termed "inadequate." "We must avoid falling into these four perverse attitudes, which certainly don't help honest research and sincere, productive dialogue," he said. The Vatican's has erred significantly in backing correct science. "In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual" Galileo Galilei.

Christopher Monckton: There are references in Pope Francis' climate encyclical that there is a sever warming of the climate. Yet satellites show no warming of the lower troposphere for 18 years 5 months. Just 41 papers, or 0.3% of 11,944 climate papers published in the 21 years 1991-2011, stated that recent warming was mostly manmade. There is, therefore, no scientific consensus, and in recent decades - little warming.

Calvin Beisner is founder and national spokesman of The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation: The stakes in the discussion of use of fossil fuels and whether they are having a catastrophic influence on Earth's climate couldn't be higher. Not only scientists, but leaders of the world's most influential countries and religious organizations are involved. How many of them have their feet on the ground and speak with reasoning based on the Scientific Method, essential to understanding the physical universe?

John Holdren, Science Advior to President Barack Obama, Pope Francis, Vatican: Encyclical: "A very solid consensus indicates that we are presently witnessing a disturbing warming of the climatic sysem." "In recent decades this warming has been accompanied by a constant rise in sea level and, .. .. by an increase in extreme weather events. Downpours increasing everywhere. Stormiest winter on record fo Ireland and UK. Warming creates a vicious cycle affecting the availability of essential resources like drinking water, energy, and agricultural production .. .. and extinction of part of the planet's biodiversity."

Rubert Darwall, strategy consultant and policy analyst. He read economics and history at Cambridge University, Judith Curry, former Professor and Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology: How dependable is climate science? Global warming mitigation policies depend on the credibility and integrity of climate science. In turn, that depends on a deterministic model of the climate system in which it is possible to quantify the role of carbon dioxide (CO2) with a high degree of confidence. This essay explores the contrast between scientists’ expressions of public confidence and private admissions of uncertainty on critical aspects of the science that undergirds the consensus.

Patrick Moore, Ph.D. Ecology, Co-Founder of Greenpeace: This is a collection of videos about man-made global warming and related topics (there is no serious man-made global warming problem), fossil fuels, agriculture and urgent needs of humanity that Patrick Moore has been working on for decades.

The Cornwall Alliance has produced four short videos on the topics of: a) CO2: Pollutaant or Plant Food?, b) History and Myth: The CO2 Record, c) Is CO2 as Dangerous as Commonly Thought?, d) Are Religion and Science in Conflict? Many will find these easy to understand, obvious and helpful. Contributors: Thomas Sheahen, Anthony Watts, Leighton Steward, Harold Doiron, Patrick Michaels, Fred Singer, Robert Carter, Robert Cunningham, Tom Wysmuller, Roy Spencer, David Lerates, Jay Richards.

The Catholic Church has been fairly consistent in supporting the hypothesis of catastrophic man-made global warming. In 2015, the leaders of the Church are recommending that the world stop using fossil fuels in all areas by 2050. What will the world be like if the world decides to stop using fossil fuels before they are exhausted?

William Ripple and Christopher Wolf are affiliate with the Dept. of Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State University, Thomas M. Newsome is affiliated with the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at The University of Sydney,. Phoebe Barnard is affiliated with the Conservation Biology Institute, in Corvallis, Oregon, William R. Moomaw is affiliated with The Fletcher School and the Global Development and Environment Institute, at Tufts University: The world must quickly implement massive energy conservation practices and must replace fossil fuels with low-carbon renewables. We should leave remaining stocks of fossil fuels in the ground. Still increasing by roughly 80 million people per year, the world population must be stabilized—and, ideally, gradually reduced. There are proven and effective policies that lower fertility rates and lessen the impacts of population growth on GHG emissions.

Uli Weber, Geophysiker: Die kalte Sonne, Sebastian Luening: This is an excellent summary in German about Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming from the points of view of Alarmists, Skeptics and Lukewarmers. Im Angesicht der geplanten Dekarbonisierung unserer Welt sollten wir nicht vergessen, dass sich im Laufe der kulturellen Evolution des Menschen die verfügbare pro-Kopf Energiemenge mehrfach drastisch erhöht hatte und unseren heutigen Lebensstandard erst ermöglicht.

Viv Forbes, Executive Director of The Saltbush Club, Australia: The climate alarm media, the bureaucracy and the Green Energy industry follow an agenda which is served by inflating any short-term weather event into a climate calamity. They should take a long-term view. Earth’s climate is never still – it is always changing, with long-term trends, medium-term reversals and minor oscillations. Humanity is best served by those who use good science to study geology, astronomy and climate history searching for clues to climate drivers and the underlying natural cycles and trends hidden in short-term weather fluctuations.

Greta Thunberg, Swedish high school student leading global campaign against fossil fuels: A group of seven- and eight-year-olds had gathered in the library of their school to watch a video of a speech Greta Thunberg delivered at the UN. A Toronto mother says a confusing school presentation involving teen activist Greta Thunberg and a ticking clock left her young daughter fearing Earth’s imminent demise. At least one child yelled “I don’t wanna die” during the presentation on man-made climate change.

Activists constantly talk about the existential threat climate change poses and the deaths natural disasters inflict—but they never quite manage to total up these deaths. One reason is that it’s easier to bend the data about disaster frequency than to bend death statistics. Death tolls tell a very clear story: People are safer from climate-related disasters than ever before.

The Right Climate Stuff, TRCS, Hal Doiron, Chairman: Astronauts have had a unique perspective of Earth, home to us all. Having viewed it as a whole from above, they realize the finite nature of our planet and have had to weigh what humans may be doing to it through industrialization. The upshot is they’ve become super-sensitive to published information relative to man’s potential influence on the planet but concerned over the direction NASA has taken on climate-change science.

Sebastian Luening, Geologist, Paleontologist, publisher of website kaltesonne.de: Das Klimaestablishment hat sich jahrelang bequem eingerichtet. Mithilfe des Klimaalarms wurde politischer Druck aufgebaut, der eigene Bereich erhöht und Fördermittel abgegriffen. Niemand konnte ein Interesse daran haben, dieses praktische und einträgliche System zu verlassen. Es macht daher Sinn, den klimatischen Status Quo durch unabhängige, unbelastete Forscher prüfen zu lassen. Dies ist ein klassischer “Red Team”-Ansatz, der in großen Firmen gelebt wird.

Sebastian Luening, Die kalte Sonne: Wer hätte das gedacht: Obwohl Versicherungskonzerne jahrelang immer größere Extremwettergefahren androhten, sind jetzt die weltweiten Schäden aus Naturkatastrophen deutlich geringer ausgefallen als befürchtet. Who thought that although insurance companies have been predicting ever larger extreme weather catastrophes (for more premium income) that worldwide extreme weather catastrophes are actually becoming less prevalent.