The green encyclical has arrived!
Siding with 97 percent of climate scientists he says, “A very solid scientific consensus indicates that we are presently witnessing a disturbing warming of the climatic system” (visit http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/).
The pope urgently calls for worldwide conversion from the use of global warming fossil fuels – oil, coal, gas – to “clean renewable energy” found in wind, solar and geothermal. (visit Earth Policy Institute http://bit.ly/1JaEb9B).
–Tony Magliano is an internationally syndicated social justice and peace columnist.