Analysis: Pope Francis’ Climate Crusade or the erosion of faith in God
https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/clintel-essay-pope-francis-climate By William M Briggs This essay was by my brother in intellectual arms Jaap Hanekamp and Yours Truly. It appears at the Clintel site, whose motto is “There is no climate emergency”. You will be doing me a great service if you pass on the link to the Clintel site so that others may see the […]
Women Find A Solution To ‘Climate Change’ Anxiety
https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/women-find-a-solution-to-climate By William M Briggs How about this breathless article title from JAMA (thanks to Stephen Shipman): “Medical Schools Are Updating Their Curricula as Climate Change Becomes Impossible to Ignore“. “Climate change” is indeed impossible to ignore. Not changes in the climate, which are easy to miss, mostly because nobody can really see them, and the […]
‘Fostering Religious Harmony’: Pope Francis Joins Grand Imam in Denouncing the ‘Serious’ Climate ‘Crisis’
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/09/06/pope-francis-joins-grand-imam-in-denouncing-climate-crisis/ By Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. ROME — Pope Francis has signed a joint declaration together with Indonesia’s Grand Imam Nasaruddin Umar, in which they denounce the “crisis” of climate change. “Our world is clearly facing two serious crises, dehumanization and climate change,” the declaration reads. “The human exploitation of creation, our common home, has contributed […]
NPR: A new kind of ‘eco-chaplain’ is helping people deal with ‘climate grief’ – ‘Grief, anger & depression’ from ‘feeling that it may be too late to save a planet in deep peril’ – ‘Trump’s election freaked everyone out’
NPR: The eco-chaplain is a 21st century invention, and while no one knows exactly how many there are, chaplaincy experts agree that the number is likely less than 100. There is no universally recognized eco-chaplaincy training, as there is for other kinds of chaplaincy, but a number of organizations offer training from Buddhist, Christian, Jewish and secular perspectives.
Today, there are chaplains working at the intersection of climate, grief and spirituality in the United States, Great Britain, Australia and Canada. Most develop their own ways of addressing the issue, from one-on-one therapy sessions to online climate grief circles and in-person support groups. …
The demand to address climate grief, anxiety and burnout is growing, according to the Rev. Alison Cornish, the chaplaincy coordinator at The BTS Center, a non-profit in Portland, Maine that looks at climate change through a spiritual lens.
On a chilly morning in January, Sustaining Climate Activists gathered in a library conference room. “Just breathe normally,” the group’s co-facilitator, the Rev. Liz Olson, a certified hospital chaplain, said in a soothing yet commanding voice to the dozen people sitting with her. …
They were a band of people committed not only to the same sweeping environmental issues, but also bonded by the pain of realizing their decades-long work to protect the planet had apparently made minimal impact. …
“Trump’s election freaked everyone out,” said Alan Journet, who co-founded the Medford advocacy group with his wife, Kathy Conway. “Group members wanted a way to deal with fears and anxieties about climate and politics.”
Pope Francis says Earth is ‘sick’ in new climate change warning – ‘If we took the planet’s temperature, it will tell us that the Earth has a fever’ – ‘We must commit ourselves to…changing our personal and community habits’
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pope-francis-says-earth-is-sick-new-climate-change-warning-2024-08-30/ VATICAN CITY, Aug 30 (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Friday urged people around the world to better protect the environment, ahead of a 12-day trip to Southeast Asia next week in which the pontiff is expected to urge global action on climate change. “If we took the planet’s temperature, it will tell us that the […]
Pope discusses ‘climate change’ with Jeff Bezos – Discussed the ‘urgent need for climate action’
https://www.ncronline.org/earthbeat/pope-discusses-climate-change-jeff-bezos Pope Francis met with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, vice chair of the Bezos Earth Fund, at the Vatican to discuss climate change. Sánchez posted photos of the meeting at the Domus Sanctae Marthae, the residence where Fancis lives, in an Instagram post Aug. 15, saying that the pope’s “wisdom, warmth, and humor were […]
J.D. Vance Is Right & the Pope Is Wrong on ‘Climate Change’
J.D. Vance Is Right and the Pope Is Wrong on “Climate Change” By Austin Ruse Excerpts: Some on the political left-Catholic division have their panties in a bunch because Donald Trump named J.D. Vance as his running mate. J.D. is a recent convert. … We are told that we oppose Church teaching or that we are […]
Doomsday coming soon? 48% believe they’ll live to see climate change destroy Earth ‘during their lifetime’
https://studyfinds.org/live-to-see-climate-change-earth/ NEW YORK — The end of the world may be coming a lot sooner than some people think — if the climate doomsayers are right. According to a new survey, nearly half of Americans believe climate change will devastate the planet during their lifetime. The survey of 5,000 Americans, split evenly by state, revealed […]
Joe Bastardi: The Glory of God vs the Folly of Man in Climate & Why the Weather is Being Weaponized
Special to Climate Depot By Joe Bastardi Aristotle argues, in Book 8 of the Physics and Book 12 of the Metaphysics, “that there must be an immortal, unchanging being, ultimately responsible for all wholeness and orderliness in the sensible world”.[4] The weather and climate are always examples of this, What we refer to as source regions are unmoved […]
Pope Francis in CBS News interview: ‘Deniers of climate change’ are ‘foolish’ for not believing ‘research’
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-deniers-of-climate-change-are-foolish/ By Michael Haynes VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has stated that “deniers of climate change” are “foolish” as they don’t believe “research,” and insisting that “climate change exists.” In comments made to CBS Evening News and aired April 24, the 87-year-old Pontiff decried those whom CBS’s Norah O’Donnell described as “deniers of climate change.” “There […]