CATH NEWS REPORT: Sydney's Cardinal George Pell said the causes of climate change remain "unclear", even as a Vatican-appointed panel of scientists warned about the need to mitigate man-made global warning, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
The panel of scientists commissioned by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences called on "all people and nations to recognise the serious and potentially irreversible impacts of global warming" caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions."Climate change is real," he told the newspaper. "The causes are unclear, and our ability to influence climate change [is] even less certain," he said.
"By acting now, in the spirit of common but differentiated responsibility, we accept our duty to one another and to the stewardship of a planet blessed with the gift of life,'' its report said.
Cardinal Pell said he would study the document carefully but questioned the effectiveness of any action.
"My attitude to any group of scientists depends on the quality of their arguments," he told the Herald when asked about the academy's report.
The document released earlier this month, Fate of Mountain Glaciers in the Anthropocene, was compiled by a working group that included glaciologists, climate scientists, meteorologists, hydrologists, physicists, mountaineers and lawyers. It argued that carbon dioxide was ''the largest single contributor to greenhouse warming", theHerald report adds. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=26387
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