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by Rich Heffern on Nov. 18, 2009
Climate change and the protection of creation will be the focus of a major campaign coordinated through the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change.
The Coalition plans to introduce an ambitious effort to reach all the country's 19,000 parishes through what is being called the Catholic Climate Covenant: The St. Francis Pledge to Protect Creation and the Poor. The covenant is an extension of efforts to more fully implement the U.S. bishops' statement on climate change.
Executive director of the Coalition, Daniel Misleh, disclosed campaign plans Oct. 25 in an address to the 39th Annual Peace and Justice Awards Dinner of the Commission on Catholic Community Action of the Cleveland diocese.
The covenant, according to the coalition's online fall update, will be the campaign's cornerstone. It will "offer a distinctively Catholic perspective on global climate change." It will also invite people to "deeper prayer, more learning and sincere action in this time of environmental uncertainty and challenge."
The St. Francis Pledge commits people, groups and institutions to five action steps from prayer and reflection to advocacy.
The campaign will be launched during the Easter season.
Anthropogenic global climate
Anthropogenic global climate change is bogus. It's cyclical and natural. I'm not going to sign that silly pledge. By the way, when will NCR promote a pledge opposing legal abortion or opposing same-sex unions? Those are indisputably Catholic moral stances.
"Pray+Learn+Assess+Act+Advoca
"Pray+Learn+Assess+Act+Advocate"
What part of "Pray+Learn+Assess+Act+Advocate" do you not understand, can you not indisputably apply to each womb to tomb, microcosm to macrocosm (See Sacramentum caritatis) issue in Roman Catholic Moral Theology (see the Reverend Father Charles Curran)?
Who's stopping you, Prop?
for the rest try a search on the excellent search engine here.
Pray+Learn+Assess+Act+Advocat
Pray+Learn+Assess+Act+Advocate
the covenant
make it
please
http://catholicclimatecovenant.org/
There is a growing body of
There is a growing body of evidence that refutes the idea of man-made climate change.
The fact is that global warming ended in 1998, and we are now in a 10-20 year period of global cooling. A period of cooling that was not predicted by the climate models used to push global warming. This development is now starting to be reported in the mainstream press.
For details:
http://allhands-ondeck.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-evidence-against-man-ma...
http://allhands-ondeck.blogspot.com/2009/10/bbc-reports-that-global-warm...
Understandably, this new data will be difficult acknowledge for those who have emotionally invested in the idea of man-made climate change. But the truth will prevail in the end. Hopefully we won't irreversibly damage the global economy before enough people see the light.
The sad thing about the erroneous and misguided efforts of the climate change movement is that attention has been diverted away from a real and serious environmental threat - the loss of biodiversity. It is the loss of biodiversity that is the true threat to our complex, interconnected ecosystem, not climate change.
hey so how's that polar ice
hey
so
how's that polar ice cap, dude?
but don't let that bend your Alaskan off shore petroleum exploration. It might impact your economic investments . . .
I hate to break the news to
I hate to break the news to you, but Arctic ice is now thickening and expanding once again as reported in the Wall Street Journal this week.
The relevant quote:
"...figures from the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center that now show thickening Arctic ice; from the U.K. Met (Meteorological) Office showing falling temperatures that contradict modeling predictions; and other studies that suggest natural factors in climate change are being dramatically underestimated..."
Source:
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB1000142405274870433590457449685093...
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