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UN chief to open Vatican conference on Pope Francis' upcoming climate change encyclical

The U.N. chief will join American economist Jeffrey Sachs and the pope's top representative on the environment, Cardinal Peter Turkson, at the April 28 event in Rome. Turkson, head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, helped write the first draft of the pope's encyclical on global warming and the environment, which is scheduled to be released in June or July.

The conference was announced on the websites for the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and the Vatican's "End Slavery" initiative. Called "Protect the Earth, Dignify Humanity," the event will feature scientists and world religious leaders, aiming to build a global movement toward curbing climate change, according to the online program. Speakers will have "a special focus on the most vulnerable, to elevate the moral dimensions of protecting the environment in advance of the papal encyclical," according to the program.

While Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI took strong stands in favor of environmental protection, Francis will be the first to address climate change in such a significant way. Encyclicals are theological documents traditionally used for the most important papal teachings.
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Fox News getting antsy
 
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2015 Is Shaping Up to Be the Hottest Year on Record
The first three months of 2015 were the warmest start to any year on record, according to new data released from NASA on Wednesday.

All major global temperature-tracking agencies have ranked January, February, and March 2015 as among the warmest three months on record, respectively. Collectively, those numbers mean 2015 has been record hot so far. What’s more, the last 12 months (from April 2014 to March 2015) was the warmest 12-month period on record, according to the NASA data. The previous warmest 12-month period ended just last month, so don’t write this one down in your diary in ink.

The news comes amid increasingly confident forecasts that there will be a strengthening El Niño for the remainder of 2015, which could spark a litany of impacts worldwide, not the least of which is the more efficient transport of heat from the oceans to the atmosphere. That liberated heat from the Pacific Ocean should boost global temperatures to never-before-recorded levels, making 2015 the warmest year ever measured.


Besides El Niño, a more worrying, longer-term trend is also taking shape. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) is a decades-long periodic warming of the Pacific Ocean that tends to favor bursts of accelerated global warming. As I wrote last October, the Pacific appears to be in the midst of a shift into a new warm phase that could last 20 years or so.

The PDO—or, “the blob” as it’s been referred to recently—is starting to freak out some scientists. There are emerging signs of a major shift in the Pacific Ocean’s food chain, including a dearth of plankton, tropical fish sightings near Alaska, and thousands of starving sea lion pups stranded on the California coast. As Earth’s largest ocean, what happens in the Pacific affects the weather virtually planet-wide, and that means an “imminent” jump in global warming may have already begun—spurred on by the PDO.
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On the bright side:

Climate change has made a sailboat race through the Arctic possible
 
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Gulf Health 5 Years After BP Spill: Resilient yet Scarred - ABC News

"Look, we put nature on a treadmill and I think it did very very well. We should consider ourselves lucky,"
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Nature is resilient

"The changing nesting trends could be due to many factors including natural variability and record cold temperatures."
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Record cold temps?

"Data collected thus far shows that the environmental catastrophe that so many feared, perhaps understandably at the time, did not come to pass, and the Gulf is recovering faster than expected,"
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Weird... Scientists over reacted.
 
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Forgive me if I'm wrong but in college basic science class we were taught that accurate global temperatures were first tracked in 1961. Before that we don't have enough info to form a complete picture.
 
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VolsNSkinsFan said:
Another cold and rainy weekend for 250 million Americans
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A study was released in May of last year that reviewed 10,885 articles with the subject of climate change. 10,883 of the articles agreed that CC is indeed man0made, while only 2, 2, disagreed. These are peer reviewed journals, not articles in Newsweek or the NYT. It's the most prestigious level of publishing available to academics. This is a consensus.

Just stop it.
 
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mrorange211 said:
A study was released in May of last year that reviewed 10,885 articles with the subject of climate change. 10,883 of the articles agreed that CC is indeed man0made, while only 2, 2, disagreed. These are peer reviewed journals, not articles in Newsweek or the NYT. It's the most prestigious level of publishing available to academics. This is a consensus.

Just stop it.
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Misread post.. Still not convinced .
 
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The Charleston Gazette | Oil worker shot in Lincoln County

A man dressed in camouflage with his face painted black approached Mark Miller, an employee with HG Energy LLC, on Joe’s Creek near Sod, Napier said.

“At that time he played Mr. Miller a recording that said ‘Stop the drilling’ and then stuck a gun through the window of the passenger side of the truck,” Napier said.
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No blood for oil
 
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mrorange211 said:
A study was released in May of last year that reviewed 10,885 articles with the subject of climate change. 10,883 of the articles agreed that CC is indeed man0made, while only 2, 2, disagreed. These are peer reviewed journals, not articles in Newsweek or the NYT. It's the most prestigious level of publishing available to academics. This is a consensus.

Just stop it.
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Herd mentality.
 
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mrorange211 said:
A study was released in May of last year that reviewed 10,885 articles with the subject of climate change. 10,883 of the articles agreed that CC is indeed man0made, while only 2, 2, disagreed. These are peer reviewed journals, not articles in Newsweek or the NYT. It's the most prestigious level of publishing available to academics. This is a consensus.

Just stop it.
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You convinced me genius!
 
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hog88 said:
Herd mentality.
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If it was a problem all the other scientists would be freaking out too. My neighbor is a PHD in chemical engendering and says the guys who go into climate science have an agenda going in to the field so it's not surprising that they get the results they get. It's the only field where over 90% agree with the findings and everyone else says.........meh.
 
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mrorange211 said:
A study was released in May of last year that reviewed 10,885 articles with the subject of climate change. 10,883 of the articles agreed that CC is indeed man0made, while only 2, 2, disagreed. These are peer reviewed journals, not articles in Newsweek or the NYT. It's the most prestigious level of publishing available to academics. This is a consensus.

Just stop it.
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So what caused climate change in the historical sense when man wasn't around?
 
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