Sunday, June 14, 2015

Vatican Speaker On Climate Thinks There Are 6 Billion Human Beings Too Many

Professor Schnellenhuber Should Kill Himself

From Breitbart:
One of the speakers slated for the Vatican rollout of the long-awaited Papal document on climate change once said the earth is overpopulated by at least 6 billion people. 
The teaching document, called an encyclical, is scheduled for release on June 18 at Vatican City. Perhaps with the exception of the 1968 encyclical on contraception, no Vatican document has been greeted with such anticipation. 
The political left is hoping for a document that ties belief in global warming to a religious obligation. Climate skeptics have already started criticizing the document. 
The choice of Professor John Schellnhuber, founding director of the Postdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, as one of three presenters may be giving the left added hope and giving giving skeptics severe heartburn. 
He has been described as one of the more aggressive scientists on the question of man-made global warming. 
In a talk given to what’s described as the “failed” 2009 Copenhagen climate conference, reported in the New York Times, Schnellnhuber, who has advised German President Angela Merkel and is a visiting professor at Oxford, said of global warming: 
“In a very cynical way, it’s a triumph for science because at last we have stabilized something –- namely the estimates for the carrying capacity of the planet, namely below 1 billion people.”

7 comments:

midnight rider said...

Yeah y'know between this guy and Pope Francis da Sissy in recent months I may switch to being a Quaker or Mennonite if I could only find a way around the whole pacifist thing...

Ciccio said...

Sorry guys, but Iam with the church on this one. The worst cases of starvation are all in countries with exploding populations. Ethiopia has gone from 1 million in 1900 to 80 million in 2000. By the same token the most prosperous countries are the ones with the lowest population growth, Germany in that time has gone from 50 to 80 million. China took the most draconian position on population control, when they did its economy soared.

Anonymous said...

Look, this pope is becoming more and more of a question mark. I don't like what's happening.

Pastorius said...

Ciccio, for once you are not well informed. While it may be true that the worst famines are in countries with exploding populations, the famines are not cause by a lack of food, but lack of government will to distribute that food.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/distribution-rather-than-lack-of-food-main-cause-of-famine-1.203997

Pastorius said...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3300728

Pastorius said...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2449527.stm

Pastorius said...

Ciccio, do you really agree with this man that there should be less than a billion people on the planet?