Nice that this pope cares more about a mythical issue way more than the murder of the unborn. How often does he talk about that? Summon Liberals to the Vatican to talk about it? Did you hear the Pope chiming in about the recent vote in Ireland to allow abortion on demand? Anyhow, remember, folks, this is totally about science.
Pope summons oil execs to Vatican to talk climate change
Pope Francis will meet with some of the world’s oil executives next week, likely to give them another moral nudge to clean up their act on global warming.
Climate change policy and science experts are cautiously hopeful but aren’t expecting any miracles or even noticeable changes.
The conference will be a follow-up to the pope’s encyclical three years ago calling on people to save the planet from climate change and other environmental ills, Vatican spokesman Greg Burke confirmed Friday. Cardinal Peter Turkson, who spearheaded the encyclical, set up the June 8-9 conference with the executives. The pope himself will speak to the leaders on the second day of the summit, organized with the University of Notre Dame, Burke said.
Officials at the Vatican and Notre Dame would not disclose who is coming. BP, however, confirmed that its CEO Robert Dudley plans to attend, and Exxon Mobil said CEO Darren Woods would be there. Woods said this week that his company is trying to balance the risks of climate change with growing demand for energy to raise living standards in the developing world.
It is rather amusing that the Pope is summoning oil execs to take fossil fueled trips to the Vatican to discuss Hotcoldwetdry from the use of fossil fuels. And the Pope came back in January from taking long fossil fueled trips to Chile and Peru. And plans on trips to Switzerland, Ireland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and India this year. Will he be walking? Biking? Taking a horse? Rollerblades?
Dana Fisher, a sociologist who studies environmentalism at the University of Maryland, said the pope is cementing his leadership on climate.
“He certainly is trying to lead for the planet and lord knows we need it,” she said.
Gary Yohe, an economics and environment professor at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, said the executives might feel compelled to listen to the spiritual leader of nearly 1.3 billion Catholics.
“This is not somebody you can ignore,” Yohe said. “It might be a come to Jesus moment for them.”
Totally not a religion.
