Pope Francis
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Pope Francis’s Misguided War on Fossil Fuels
by H. Sterling Burnett July 6, 2018It seems that Pope Francis has learned little since his 2015 papal encyclical calling on the world to fight climate change by limiting the use of modern technologies and fossil fuels.
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Setting National Health Priorities: Trump and Climate Change
by Jane M. Orient, M.D. December 21, 2017The Trump Administration has announced the removal of climate change from the list of national security threats.
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Heartland Daily Podcast – Looking Back: Heartland Visits the Vatican Climate Summit
by Jim Lakely November 26, 2015In today’s holiday, best-of, edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, we look back to the spring where Heartland led a delegation of experts to the Vatican to supply an opposition voice to the U.N. led climate summit preceding Pope Francis’ environment encyclical. In this podcast, we listen in as Director of Communications Jim Lakely speaks with Lord Christopher Monckton about what he learned while inside the walls of the Vatican.
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Heartland is Going to Paris for COP-21, and You Can Help
by Donald Kendal November 4, 2015After a successful trip to Rome this spring to combat climate alarmism, The Heartland Institute is now setting its sights on the COP-21 – the twenty-first meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris next month. And we request your help!
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Heartland Daily Podcast – E. Cal Beisner: Ethics and Environment, Where Pope Francis Went Wrong
by H. Sterling Burnett September 28, 2015In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, H. Sterling Burnett, managing editor of Environment & Climate News speaks with E. Cal Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance. Beisner joins Burnett to discuss the nexus between ethics and environment issues and where he believes Pope Francis has gone wrong.
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Pope Francis: Before One Can Know What is Moral, He Must Know What is True
by Craig Idso September 23, 2015Neither the Pope’s concerns, nor the Administration’s alarms, over potential global warming are based upon the best available science.
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A more conciliatory message on the virtues of capitalism from Pope Francis would be regarded as a welcome counterbalance to the collectivist hyperbole emanating from some of his advisors and one that would help heal the Vatican’s emerging rift with many Catholics.
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Heartland Daily Podcast – Craig Idso: Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
by H. Sterling Burnett August 3, 2015In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, H. Sterling Burnett, managing editor of Environment & Climate News speaks with Craig Idso. Idso is founder and chairman of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change and its website CO2Science.org. Burnett and Idso discuss the objectives and views for the Center.
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How The Power Elite Prejudiced The Pope’s Climate Change Encyclical
by Ron Arnold July 1, 2015Among all the hallelujahs and groans about Pope Francis and his highly politicized climate change encyclical Laudato Si’, there’s scant mention of who actually formulated its core content. It wasn’t the Holy Father.
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Jay Lehr Talks About the Pope, Climate Change and Dissolving the EPA
by Donald Kendal June 29, 2015On June 23, Science Director Jay Lehr was a guest on Common Sense Conversations Talk Radio, aired on dozens of stations across the country. Lehr was on to talk about the pope, climate change, the EPA and bureaucratic abuses.
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Elon Musk and his fellow barons of Climate Crisis, Inc. recently got a huge boost from Pope Francis. Musk et al. say fossil fuels are causing unprecedented warming and weather disasters. The Pope agrees and says Catholics must “ask God for a positive outcome” to negotiations over another UN climate treaty.
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Global Warming: A Theory that Predicts Nothing, Explains Everything
by Nancy Thorner June 29, 2015Despite the doublethink inherent in climate change with its intent to deceive, such as when deniers are called liars, it is amazing that the American people ranked climate change dead last among eight other listed concerns in a recent Gallop poll . But will public opinion change in lieu of the Vatican’s recently released encyclical by Pope Francis in which the pope blames climate change on human activity and subsequently refers to the present time as a “pile of filth”?
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What if the Pope’s Encyclical Destroys, Rather than Saves Humanity?
by Nancy Thorner June 20, 2015Common sense dictates that federal agencies must assess both the costs and the benefits of the intended regulations, and recognizing that some costs and benefits are difficult to quantify, propose or adopt a regulation only upon a reasoned determination that the benefits of the intended regulation justify the cost.