Personally, I believe in very dramatic weather changes like the flood of Noah and creation to name a couple. So, the climate change now isn't that amazing to me.

But, if it really is being caused by mankind, that would be important for us to address. I just don't believe it is caused by mankind. I haven't seen that proof.

Neither has Pope Francis I.

Have you seen any climate change?

I guess I've seen it change from warm a few days ago to cold today.

But is that climate change? What would have to happen to determine if the climate is changing? In fact, why is it now "climate change" instead of what was initially "global warming"? Is it because they really don't know what is happening -- warming, cooling, or just staying the same?

I say climate change because the climate can cool off as well. I wouldn't describe the cooling of the climate as global warming.

I do see your point though kland. The term changed from global warming with no apparent reason.

They managed to get another tax levied on the population -- carbon tax. Quite a money raiser in our country on heating bills in the cold of winter. We need to start hoping there is a "warming" so we don't need so much natural gas to stay warm.

Do the realize they are encouraging people to do anything to increase global warming (as if that was even possible) so they don't have to pay so much carbon tax?

BONN, Germany -- Pope Francis denounced those who deny global warming and urged negotiators at climate talks in Germany to avoid falling prey to such "perverse attitudes" and instead accelerate efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Francis issued a message Thursday to the Bonn meeting, which is working to implement the 2015 Paris accord aimed at capping global emissions.

In the message, Francis called climate change "one of the most worrisome phenomena that humanity is facing," and urged negotiators to ignore special interests and political or economic pressures and instead engage in an honest dialogue about the future of the planet.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-denounces-climate-change-deniers/

Does "ignore... political and or economic pressures" sound like obey me, not your people, to anyone else?

Yes it does ProdigalOne.

Pope Francis doesn't want his words contradicted by anyone, even the President of the United States!

It is irrelevant whether global warming is true or is a farce.
There is a real danger of being sidetracked from the actual issue.
How are religious, political, and financial rulers using this threat,
real or fabricated, to manipulate the population?

The Pope appears to be using global warming to help erase boarders (for the future of the planet) and strengthen his grip on hearts and minds by supplanting democracy and claiming control of the world’s economy. Also, that bit about ignoring "special interests" could easily be applied to religious groups.

In Canada, it is being used to redistribute wealth and weaken the middle class with the carbon tax. Canadian sovereignty is being ceded to globalists via the Paris Climate Accord.

If enough people realize it's all made up and fake, then the papacy would have not strength along those lines.
They'd have to fabricate something else.

I guess the globalists don't care if it's warming or cooling. They want their claim to hold the same validity either way.