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2019-06-15 Olde Tyme Religion

Pope backs carbon pricing to stem global warming and appeals to deniers

VATICAN CITY, June 14 (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Friday that carbon pricing is "essential" to stem global warming - his clearest statement yet in support of penalising polluters - and appealed to climate change deniers to listen to science.
Putting "Dead" to the issue of Papal Infallibality
In an address to energy executives at the end of a two-day meeting, he also called for "open, transparent, science-based and standardised" reporting of climate risk and a "radical energy transition" away from carbon to save the planet.

Carbon pricing, via taxes or emissions trading schemes, is used by many governments to make energy consumers pay for the costs of using the fossil fuels that contribute to global warming, and to spur investment in low-carbon technology.

The Vatican said attendees of the closed-door meeting at its Academy of Sciences, a follow-up to one a year ago, included the CEOs of Royal Dutch Shell, Eni, BP, Repsol, Conoco Phillips, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and executives of investment funds.

"Collectively, these leaders will influence the planet's future, perhaps more than any in the world," said Father John Jenkins, president of the U.S. University of Notre Dame, which organised the meeting.

A small group of demonstrators gathered outside a Vatican gate. One held a sign reading "Dear Oil CEOs - Think of Your Children".

Francis, who has made many calls for environmental protection and has clashed over climate change with leaders such as U.S. President Donald Trump, said the ecological crisis "threatens the very future of the human family".

Posted by Besoeker 2019-06-15 08:10|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 And this relates to spreading the gospel of Christ how? This tool should stick to religion and leave everything else to others...oh wait...for Green SJW this IS a religion.

Posted by Warthog 2019-06-15 08:44|| 2019-06-15 08:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Then let the Vatican pay for every lit candle and the censers and lamps that are part of it's ritual mongering conglomerate. That's a lot of carbon !

Posted by Dron66046 2019-06-15 09:49|| 2019-06-15 09:49|| Front Page Top

#3 You are way out of your wheelhouse.

Posted by newc 2019-06-15 11:50|| 2019-06-15 11:50|| Front Page Top

#4 I knew there was a reason to bring back keelhauling.

Posted by AlanC 2019-06-15 11:54|| 2019-06-15 11:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh, come on! Don't you remember how Jesus got all the CEOs of the Roman Empire oil companies together to lecture them about global warming?????

Posted by Tom 2019-06-15 12:03|| 2019-06-15 12:03|| Front Page Top

#6 This is the latest dispatch from Avignon?

Posted by Fred 2019-06-15 12:41|| 2019-06-15 12:41|| Front Page Top

#7 This is the same Pope who think's the Lord's Prayer, given by Jesus Christ, the son of God, isn't good enough and he, the Pope, can do much better.

Posted by CrazyFool 2019-06-15 13:02|| 2019-06-15 13:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Buying carbon credits is rather like buying indulgences so I think we're good on theological grounds.

Posted by SteveS 2019-06-15 13:13|| 2019-06-15 13:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Unlike a person of faith, I require verifiable facts.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2019-06-15 14:03|| 2019-06-15 14:03|| Front Page Top

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