A Koch hack tells the Pope to 'back off' on climate change

[eridani]

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/29/1354520/-A-Koch-hack-tells-the-Pope-to-back-off-on-climate-change

Pope Francis will be issuing a rare encyclical on the environment and climate change next year, and it's pretty clear that his message will not be "Drill, baby, drill."

According to the Guardian story, Francis will urge "all Catholics to take action on moral and scientific grounds."

Along the lines of what he said in October:

The monopolising of lands, deforestation, the appropriation of water, inadequate agro-toxics are some of the evils that tear man from the land of his birth. Climate change, the loss of biodiversity and deforestation are already showing their devastating effects in the great cataclysms we witness.

Unlike in other matters through the many centuries, the Catholic Church has essentially accepted the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change.

But some Catholics, especially in Fox "News"-deluded America, will have none of that, at least according to one of the hundreds of Koch-funded conservatives on offer to journalists to give the polluters' point of view.

[Hortensis]

1. How about when they kindly offered to send a delegation

to "educate" the Pope on climate issues? I'm wondering if the Kochs are finally feeling a little small-fryish as they face this juggernaut, but maybe that's not possible for them.

I've read that American Bishops who were long recalcitrant and/or timid on climate change issues have been coming around now that they have direct orders from the boss. This pope reasons and instructs on duty to effect uncomfortable change, but he fires if that doesn't work.

I am just so glad this is finally happening. President Johnson's 1965 letter to Congress was a long time ago.