The Pope and US views on climate change....

Pope’s call for action on climate change has shifted US views. Source: New Scientist (link here)

Above: The Pope issuing his call for change. Courtesy of New Scientist

It's very nice to see the positive power of faith in action. From the source article:

When the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics issued his call to action on climate change in June, observers wondered whether this would move the needle in the public debate. A survey of people in the US released late last week suggests that it has. Some 17 per cent of overall respondents and 35 per cent of Catholic respondents said they were influenced by Francis’s message that climate change is a crucial moral issue.

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