Emails from the Pontifical Academy of Sciences doc the Vatican’s hostility to skepticism about local weather change – what goes with it?
From the National Catholic Register
The 2015 emails show how alarmed the Academy’s Chancellor and some of its senior members were that a French scientist was attending a high-level Vatican summit and refused to invite him.
Edward Pentin Blogs January 5, 2021
VATICAN CITY – Five-year-old emails within the Pontifical Academy of Sciences have surfaced to show how concerned some senior Vatican officials have been in suppressing voices who are skeptical of the science of climate change.
The irritated exchange, all written and on the register this year, mainly relates to an invitation from the Academy to Professor Philippe de Larminat, a French climate change skeptic, to speak at a major high-level summit of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences ” The moral dimensions of climate change and sustainable development. “
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With the aim of building a consensus between scientists and religious leaders on the science of climate change, the meeting coincided in April 2015 with both the environmental cyclical Laudato Si (On Caring for Our Common Home) by Pope Francis, published a month later, and with the Established this year together the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Keynote speakers included then-UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, chief architect of the SDGs, Columbia University economist and population control lawyer Jeffrey Sachs, and five Nobel Prize winners.
De Larminat, who wrote a book in which he argued that solar activity, rather than greenhouse gases, is driving global warming, also contradicted the conclusions of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He reportedly sought a place at the 2015 symposium to try to change the Pope’s mind about science.
The then President of the Pontifical Academy, Werner Arber, a Protestant Swiss microbiologist and Nobel Prize winner, who was founded in 2011 by Benedict XVI. Appointed, showed understanding of de Larminat’s concerns and was careful to accept the “consensus” on climate change.
In an email from Arber on March 23rd to the Academy’s Chancellor, Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, and Academician Veerabhadran Ramanathan, the Swiss scientist emphasized that the climate has a “high degree of complexity” and that scientific studies depend on models that could lead to “Different conclusions.” In general, these conditions create “uncertainty” about the science that the Vatican and Pope should be informed about, he wrote.
Arber therefore advocated “following the precautionary principle” – recommending lowering the amount of CO2 released by human activities, but not making “clear statements” about predictions about climate change that “seriously put trust in science could affect “. As a postscript, he added that de Larminat “may be willing to attend our workshop on April 28th if it is desirable”.
The decision to invite de Larminat seems to have already been taken, as in an email dated March 30th, Cardinal Peter Turkson, then president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, told de Larminat: “If you want to attend [in the summit]the academy would be very happy. All you have to do is let me know. ”
The French scientist responded by asking if his brother, Professor Stanislas de Larminat, an expert on Christian ecology, could also attend. Stanislas once wrote that “ecologism” is a “form of the culture of death that makes us dream of a return to paradise lost”. He had also authored a book preceded by Cardinal George Pell, which was known for his skepticism about human-made climate change.
Bishop Sanchez only became aware of their invitation on April 16, a few days before the symposium, when Arber emailed him to inform him that he would “welcome” de Larminat’s participation. The scientist’s contribution, Arber wrote in the email, would “provide a deeper insight into the complex phenomenon of climate variation and predictive modeling using this approach, which is different from the IPCC approach”.
In an email that opened the following day with the words “Dear Friends” to Academicians Ramanathan (now known as Pope Francis’ “Climate Scientist”), Peter Raven, an American botanist, and Sir Partha Dasgupta, an Indian Economists, Bishop, Sanchez expressed his shock and cited Arber’s proposal to Cardinal Turkson to invite de Larminat “incredible”.
Raven responded with sadness that Bishop Sanchez “should find himself in the midst of this ludicrous and unfortunate situation”, adding that “if we differ from what the scientific world has found in this area, we shall be ridiculous”. Controversy at the meeting “will make all the news,” he feared. Raven encouraged Bishop Sanchez to “continue to be strong”, claiming Arber “was not listening”.
Dasgupta urged the Chancellor not to be angry about the situation “because there is nothing to be done,” adding that even if they had a scientist to reject the dissenting position, “lost the whole point of the meeting on the 28th Ramanathan believed that the only option was to invite the dissenting scientist and do everything possible to “avert an undesirable result”.
Bishop Sanchez wrote back and told them, “Don’t worry, even if this Professor de Larminat should come, he has no authority to speak or to do any kind of intervention.”
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