Governor Jerry Brown, who issued an executive order in April forcing the state to cut green house gas emissions to 40% under 1990 levels by 2030, released a statement Thursday endorsing Pope Francis’s encyclical on climate change.
On Thursday, President Barack Obama pledged: “I am committed to taking bold actions at home and abroad to cut carbon pollution.” On Friday, the President told a gathering of the nation’s mayors in San Francisco that they had to prepare for climate change. On Saturday, he flew on Air Force One to Palm Springs, where on Sunday he is playing golf at Sunnylands.
Director of NETWORK Sister Simone Campbell, spoke on Saturday’s “Up w/ Steve Kornacki” on MSNBC, commented on Pope Francis’s encyclical, where he proclaimed that humans are causing warmer temperatures. Campbell stated that with the Pope’s encyclical calling for cherishing human life,
The audaciousness of EIon Musk to challenge bone-headed establishment thinking is on maximum display this month as his SpaceX organization helps launch the design competition for a “sub-scale” Hyperloop prototype pod train. Unlike the California High Speed Rail, that no
Columnist Pat Buchanan argued that Pope Francis I is “squandering his moral authority” by speaking on climate change as a “socialist” on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” Buchanan said, “The pope, when he speaks on faith and morals, speaking ex cathedra, speaks
The scientist recently appointed to a Vatican post has called his critics, including Breitbart News, “vicious liars”.
The UK government is continuing to defy its own austerity rhetoric by funding environmental quangos to the tune of hundreds of millions of pounds, creating a corporatist market in the field of environmental technologies in the process. In the last 24
Pope Francis I’s controversial climate change encyclical, which embodies redistributionist economic philosophy in the guise of environmentalism, and wraps all of that up in an eggshell-thin Biblical reinterpretation, doesn’t merely draw from secularist philosophy and environmentalist truisms: it draws from Muslim poet Ali al-Khawas.
Actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio, whose own carbon footprint arguably rivals those of entire small communities, has joined forces with actor Mark Ruffalo to launch a campaign for clean energy.
As a scientist, I am not simply disappointed by the issue of encyclical named Laudato Si’ (Praised Be) from the office of the Pope, but I am highly disgusted because of the blatant misuse of science and the scientific method of inquiry as part of the excuse to prevent social injustice and wrong-doing.
Despite repeated attempts by green advocates and local government to stir up interest, Britons are less concerned than ever about electric cars. According to a survey by the Department for Transport, 56 per cent of the public have never considered
Great news from the scuba-diving tropical paradise Maldives. They’ve just opened another airport. This means that the Indian Ocean island nation now has four international airports and seven domestic ones. Quite a lot for a country with a population of
Congressman Jared Huffman (D-CA) is enlisting the public’s help in crafting a bill to battle California’s record four-year drought.
SAN DIEGO — Some San Diego residents did their part to raise awareness of water compensation by avoiding showers on June 17 in celebration of “Drought Day.”
Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh argued that Pope Francis’ climate encyclical has actually thrown the left a curveball on Thursday. After playing a clip of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) praising the encyclical, and saying, “This planet is God’s
In no fewer than 17 tweets as of this printing, Pope Francis has begun e-blasting excerpts from his new encyclical letter on environmental stewardship, calling above all for an “honest debate” on the situation of the environment and what society can do about it.
LONDON, United Kingdom – England’s most senior Catholic clergyman has said that Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment will cause “disquiet” for big business in Britain and abroad with its critique of global capitalism. Speaking against a backdrop of the
Pope Francis has appointed Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, a prominent German climate change expert, to the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the goal of which is to promote the progress of the mathematical, physical, and natural sciences.
At an address delivered at AFL-CIO headquarters, the archbishop of Washington, D.C. announced that organized labor is recognized by the Catholic Church as one of the “instruments of solidarity and justice,” and that such solidarity should not be taken for granted or denied.
No the Pope doesn’t have a Masters degree in Chemistry. I only mention it because the usual suspects have been making such a big deal of Pope Francis’s scientific credentials, as part of their inevitable campaign to persuade us that
A scientist who believes the world is overpopulated by 6 billion people has been appointed by Pope Francis to the Pontifical Academy of Science.
There are all manner of Catholic pressure groups poised to pounce on Catholics running for president including Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum, Jeb Bush, and Chris Christie.
On Monday, Democrats in Sacramento, doing their best to aid Governor Jerry Brown’s troubled high-speed rail project, attempted to grease the way for the project’s success by relaxing oversight and reporting requirements.
A leading left-wing think tank has warned that rising green levies will create an angry public backlash. But rather than arriving at the obvious conclusion – that green energy costs too much to be sustainable – they have called for
A new Pew Research Center survey, released as Pope Francis publishes an encyclical on the environment and climate change, finds that 71% of self-identified American Catholics believe the earth is getting warmer, but only 47% attribute the perceived warming to human activity.
