Rick Santorum Tells Pope Francis To ‘Leave Science To The Scientists’ On Climate Change
Source: Think Progress
On June 16, Pope Francis is expected to release an encyclical letter on the environment, the Catholic Church’s strongest statement to date on the moral issues associated with climate change. It’s a move that has environmentalists very excited — and one GOP presidential nominee less than thrilled.
During an interview with a Philadelphia radio station on Monday, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum — a devout Catholic — said that while he loves Pope Francis, he thinks the Pope should leave discussions about climate change to scientists.
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Unfortunately for Santorum, asking Pope Francis to leave science to the scientists is a tricky request, because while the Pope is the current leader of the Catholic Church, he also happens to have a master’s degree in chemistry from the University of Buenos Aires. Francis isn’t the only famous Catholic to have expertise in science — as Scientific American pointed out in 2013, the Jesuit order has a long history of producing men with background in both theology and science. If the Catholic Church had always eschewed science, the 17th-century Catholic priest Giovanni Zup might have never discovered the orbital phases of Mercury, or the 19th-century priest Benito Vines might have never been able to create his method for forecasting hurricanes, which formed the basis of the modern early warning systems we use today.
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In the past, Santorum has referred to climate change “as not climate science, but political science,” claiming that global warming has no basis in a real understanding of the world. That runs counter to the 97 percent of actively publishing climate scientists that agree that the climate is warming due to human activity.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/06/03/3665559/rick-santorum-pope-francis-climate-change/
"What a snob!"
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if he keeps this up. then he'll be a devout nothing .... can't be a devout catholic and shout at the pope X_X only us Lutherans can do that 
and I'm not.
