Noted by Dr. Noh Mann-Greenbaum
Were Jeb Bush’s and Rick Santorum’s statements about the Pope’s environmental encyclical just the first salvos of a conspiracy to avoid discussion of climate change during the U.S. Presidential election? If so, could that end up being a good thing? Continue reading Conspiracy of ignorance – for the better?
Noted by Dr. Noh Mann-Greenbaum
Trend watchers announced that Nature may finally have begun a long hoped for comeback. In a development that caught the world off guard, last week Nature surged past Beyoncé in the well respected Google Trends ratings. S/he now has sights set on surpassing Kim Kardashian in public popularity. That will be a stiff challenge. Nature currently receives a respectable 823,000 web searches a month. But for each search for Nature, there are nearly 17 for Ms Kardashian, who receives 13,600,000 searches a month. Continue reading Nature smacks down Beyoncé. Will Kim be next?
Noted by Dr. Noh Mann-Greenbaum
Pope Francis threw the weight of his office behind reviving the slipping popularity of nature and environmental activism. In his June 18, 2015 Encyclical Letter the Pope states “There is an urgent need to develop policies . . . developing sources of renewable energy.”
B. L’zobo’ab of the Society for Truth questions the motivations of the Encyclical. “The propaganda starts on the cover. To refer to Earth as our ‘common’ home clearly flies in the face of reality. Additionally we call on the Vatican to release the Pope’s original appointment documents for public inspection. We’re not claiming, yet, that the Pope isn’t really the Pope. But we want to make sure. Every other Pope since 897 AD has had Xs, or Vs, or Is after his name. It just doesn’t make sense that this so-called Pope’s name doesn’t have letters like that.”
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