Michael Mann was interviewed by Michael Smerconish about the Pope's recent letter on climate change:
Here's the NYT piece by Justin Gillis mentioned by Mann.
The graphic at the top is form here.
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Unfortunately, many fundamentalist Protestants (my family included) consider him the Antichrist, and something tells me this latest encyclical won't help that image whatsoever.
That's because he's the most Christ-like Pope they've had in centuries.
And that threatens what they consider "their" territory.
Not very Christianly, if you ask me... More like Pharisaical.
Not very Christianly, if you ask me
There is a quote, usually attributed to Gandhi, but of dubious authenticity:
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Nonsense- the Antichrist is too busy managing NGO's
“This is a big deal, and it’s ironic that a pope is being criticized by some for accepting science,” said the Rev. Thomas Reese, a senior analyst with the National Catholic Reporter. “Galileo must be rolling over in his grave.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/how-pope-franciss-not-yet-official-…
I don't like the slant of that Washington Post article. It reads too much like a "he said, she said" piece. Also, it refers to those who object to the Pope's position -- based as it is on well-supported science -- as skeptics, and puts "denial" in quotes.
And later:
How many times must this be said? A skeptic is someone who doubts the quality of the evidence for a particular position, and does so because he can present other evidence that contradicts or casts doubt on the original evidence. The so-called skeptics the Post refers to aren't doing that.
^^#6: Exactly. If you're using words like "derision and dismissal" then we're not talking about skeptics, we're talking about deniers.
Sorry to put in this off-topic comment, but I can't find the relevant thread. You said you'd try to get Amazon selling a paperback edition of Sungudogo to complement the (blech) Kindle edition. I've been checking back every so often, and for the past couple of weeks, Sungudogo has not even been available on Kindle and Amazon claims never to have heard of it. It has become doubly a cryptid! Are you aware that this is going on?