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Tweet The encyclical emphasizes a moral element to the climate debate that the drier analyses miss. I wrote previously that a bishop flubbed a response to a Foxquestion about whether we shouldn’t do other things to help the poor instead of reducing our precious carbon emissions
See the original article here: What Catholic opinion on the death penalty tells you about the encyclical’s future effect
Mal Adapted said… I suppose I’ll acknowledge that not everything 8c says is ranty, strictly speaking (although I’d like to know how to work that click-and-ignore trick). As an atheist I have no personal use for the Pope’s theology either
Tweet The coming June 18th publication of Laudato Si will reaffirm our moral responsibility for the Earth.
Tweet Bunnies may notice that the tag line above has been changed and the give to save the Keeling curve link removed. Â There are two reasons for this. First, thanks in part to you, maybe a little to Eli, funding for the Scripps program has been saved.
Tweet Maxim Lott sees the slope of the line for the last 17 years as being virtually flat. I imagine that if he went for a run and came to a hill, he wouldn’t even notice it. The NASA data he cites is here  (which doesn’t include any of the scorching 2015 data), and his article here
Tweet Haven’t done a foreign policy post in a while, so here’s three in one: 1. The list above shows messed-countries and messed-up outcomes, so that part’s consistent, but what’s inconsistent is the level of effort by the US to change the outcome.
Tweet In the discussion about Fred Seitz that John threw the burning tree onto Willard pointed to an answer that Eli had not known. Â Maybe John Mashey had figured it out but not Eli. So everybunny today older than about 12 years knows about the OISM petition, a mail campaign started in 2003 based on a Monckton class deceptive paper by Soon, Baliunas and Robinson, Robinson being Art Robinson, a chemist who used to work with Linus Pauling and went off to form a home schooling operation housed in a barn in Oregon called the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine