Funny, cause Warmists reject the Pope because he doesn’t support abortion on demand, which was also mentioned in the same position paper in which Pope Francis yammered on about “climate change”. The same one which also told people they essentially needed to give up fossil fuels and go carbon neutral, otherwise they were immoral.
Why Catholic Americans are rejecting the Pope: They worship the free market now
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Why are white Catholics rejecting the climate consensus even as they have become increasingly progressive on other hot-button issues like same-sex marriage? As this graph from evolutionary biologist Josh Rosenau of the National Center for Science Education shows, it’s not a simple matter of Catholics rejecting science like Evangelicals. Rosenau plotted various religious groups’ support for environmental regulations against their support for evolution based on data from the Pew Research Center. In general, he found that “groups that support evolution also support environmental action.†Catholics, however, fall somewhere in the middle of the science and environmental regulation-supporting Jews, Buddhists, Atheists, Agnostics and liberal Protestants, and the conservative Evangelical and Black churches that largely reject both evolution and climate change regulation.
A 2013 study from Stephan Lewandowsky and colleagues offers some insight in the particular Catholic rejection of climate change. They found that religious individuals with a strong belief in a free-market ideology were likely to reject “scientific findings that have potential regulatory implications, such as climate science, but not necessarily of other scientific issues.â€
In other words, white Catholics don’t accept the scientific consensus on climate change because it clashes with their other god: the free market.
First, so many of Lewandosky’s papers have been debunked and delinked as the perfection of junk science. Second, is Warmist Patricia Miller at Salon telling us that climate change belief and free markets are incompatible? Of course she is. Members of the Cult of Climastrology are against free markets. Well, for Everyone Else except themselves, of course. Consider that the Pope has recruited Naomi Klein, a “ferocious critic of 21st-century capitalism”, to “shift the debate on climate change”. Klein is one of the few Warmists who actually tells the truth, namely that one of the goals is to create a far left economic system, doing away with capitalism and free markets.
Oh, and Patricia Miller is the author of “Good Catholics: The Battle Over Abortion in the Catholic Churchâ€, a book which is about the pro-choice movement towards the Catholic Church. So, she’s ignoring what the Pope has said on abortion.
