Archbishop accused of promoting climate change denier's views

Tasmania's Archbishop has been accused of promoting the views of a climate change denier at the same time the global church is marking the seventh anniversary of Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Si: On care for our common home.

The May edition of the Catholic Standard included an article titled Exposing the 'modern green religion', a report of a speech given by geologist Professor Ian Plimer in Hobart at the invitation of the Christopher Dawson Centre, a think tank established by Archbishop Julian Porteous.

"Professor Ian Plimer has written his most recent book on what he believes is a worrying trend in the debate of the science of climate change.

"He argues that the movement claiming human activity is responsible for global warming has been transformed into a 'modern green religion' filling the void left by the decline of traditional Christianity in first-world Western countries.

"For 25 years Professor Plimer has been asking fellow scientists to provide even one study that clearly shows human emissions of carbon dioxide are causing global warming. To date, he maintains no such proof has been offered."

The History of CO2

As a point of reference, pre-industrial CO2 levels were around 280 parts per million (ppm) and today, we stand near 420 ppm.

The most distant period in time for which we have estimated CO2 levels is around the Ordovician period. At the time, atmospheric CO2 concentration was at a whopping 3000 to 9000 ppm! The average temperature wasn’t much more than 10 degrees C above today’s.

This is just my opinion.

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