Climate Skeptic: I Was Denied Seat at Vatican Summit.  Why?

By Greg Richter

French climate change skeptic Philippe de Larminat says he was denied a spot at April’s summit sponsored by the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences, The Washington Post reports.

De Larminat had hoped to attend the meeting ahead of Pope Francis’ encyclical on climate change issued last week. He was told he would be allowed if space permitted, but just days before the event was set to begin he was told there wasn’t an open spot.

But, according to the Post, de Larminat was actually denied space because other scientists and the Vatican bureaucrat who heads up the academy didn’t want him there. De Larminat has written a book arguing that the sun, and not human activity, is the primary cause of climate change

“They did not want to hear an off note,” de Larminat told the paper.

In the end, Francis wrote that Catholics, and everyone else, should move to combat global warming, and efforts by skeptics such as de Larminat came too late to influence his writing.

“This was their Waterloo,” Kert Davies, executive director of the Climate Investigations Center, told the Post. “They wanted the encyclical not to happen. And it happened.”

Similarly, the Chicago-based Heartland Institute held an event in a hotel right next to the Vatican at the same time as the event de Larminat had tried to attend. Their goal was “to inform Pope Francis of the truth about climate science: There is no global warming crisis!” a press release read.

But Francis appears to have made up his mind on the global warming debate, the Post said – according to Raymond Arroyo, news director at the worldwide Catholic cable channel.

Time will tell who is right.  Next time, I guess de Larminat will need to set up an appointment with the Pope to hear his “confession,” if he is Catholic,  which is private and the Pope would be required to hear his side of the climate change issue.  We have to understand that the Pope is not an economist and doesn’t set policy and is certainly not a scientist.

It is a puzzle as to how he came to his conclusion and  agreed with the climate change sayers.  Did it have anything to do with $$?  Just because we are Catholics doesn’t mean we have to roll over.  I certainly respect his opinion.  In my vision, the scientists must be the ones who come together and explain that climate change is either true or false because right now they are not in agreement.

According to the news, some of the scientists have been bribed so they can continue to receive their grants to continue studying the issue.  And, until that happens,  it is a political football; and, in America –  we have proof that we cannot trust our leader and his administration – that is why God gave us a  mind to question events.

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