Electing Republicans who are dependent on contributions from the fossil fuel industry will ensure that man-made climate change will proceed apace. The "I'm not a scientist" dodge that they are using to have it both ways won't work, as we noted earlier this week, given overwhelming scientific evidence of man-made climate change.
Pope Francis has made reversing climate change and man's damage to the Earth a moral imperative, and, as a consequence, drawn jibes and criticism from right-wing Republican Catholics, who just want him to focus on reproductive and sexual identity issues, and avoid talk of climate change, social justice and economic fairness. It should be interesting to watch his reception by the Rethugs in Congress when he addresses the body on September 24.
(cartoon: Tom Toles,
