Inoculating against science denial by John Cook generated the highest number of comments of the articles posted on SkS during the past week. Matthew England's The climate 'hiatus' doesn’t take the heat off global warming garnered the second highest number of comments.
Hat tip to I Heart Climate Scientists
“For Francis, his uniqueness as an authority resides in the quite remarkable moral capital he’s built up from the start,” Morrill* says. “People in governments – and not just Christian and Catholics, but people in the UN and other bodies – people have made a judgement perceiving his personal moral authority and wisdom and knowledge of our times. That is what bears the authority – there’s the objective moral authority of the papacy, but this other authority, I think, that is making all the difference.”
*Bruce Morrill, the Edward A. Malloy professor of Catholic studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School in Nashville, Tenn., who is also a Catholic priest.
Pope Francis and climate change: why Catholic skeptics are so alarmed (+video) by Harry Bruinius, Christian Science Monitor, Apr 28, 2015
The Austin Monitor article, Zimmerman rejects briefing by climate scientist, documents an exchange between an Austin City Coucilman and Prof Katharine Hayhoe about the vlidity of climate science. Per the article,
Hayhoe referred him to a website called skepticalscience.com, saying that it has answered every major question about climate science.
The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) is an international partnership of countries highly vulnerable to a warming planet. The Forum serves as a South-South cooperation platform for participating governments to act together to deal with global climate change.
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