The Pontifical Academy of Sciences

The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is the sponsor of a "workshop" that's attracting an international cast of movers and shakers to the Vatican from May 15-17.

 

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The idea is for the illustrious attendees, for example California governor Gavin Newsom and Massachusetts governor Maura Healy, to not only put the brakes on global warming but also enable the underlings to endure it until it's been brought to a stop. Pope Francis is the steward of God's earth and needs the help of everyone to maintain it. Other dignitaries will include John Kerry, NY governor Kathy Hochul, and Boston mayor Michelle Wu. 

The Catholic News Agency says:    "The conference will also include mayors from some of Europe’s largest cities, including the mayors of Rome, Paris, and London, as well lawmakers from Asia and Africa, researchers and academics from the world’s leading universities, and representatives from international organizations such as the United Nations and the World Health Organization.

The program notes that one of the main outcomes of the summit will be the drafting of a “Planetary Climate Resilience” protocol in which all participants will be “cosignatories.” 

The protocol will be “fashioned along the lines of the Montreal Protocol” and will “provide the guidelines for making everyone climate resilient,” the program states.

At one time the Papacy did pretty much rule the entire Western world, see Pope Alexander VI's bull inter caetara of May, 1493 that set the stage for the Treaty of Tordesillas  in 1494 and Spain's colonization of South America. 

While there are many followers of Roman Catholicism and the Pope, whoever he might be, is it wise to follow his lead in matters entirely scientific, as this situation seems to be?

 

 

Pontifical workshop update:  Massachusetts governor Maura Healey sits between US FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell and Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo at the workshop in Vatican City on May 15-17. Mayor Hidalgo isn't in the photo, having perhaps gone outside for a smoke.