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2007-05-10 | permalink
Vatican officials closed a conference on climate change Friday that heard from scientists, ministers and religious leaders about the negative - and sometimes positive - impacts of climate change. ”Not all the scientific world is crying disaster,” Cardinal Renato Martino, who heads the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, told Vatican Radio at the start of the two-day conference he hosted. [...] Four years ago, Martino hosted a similar conference on genetically modified foods - which he supports - and the Vatican has yet to issue any document on that similarly charged topic.
2007-05-10 | permalink
Vatican officials closed a conference on climate change Friday that heard from scientists, ministers and religious leaders about the negative - and sometimes positive - impacts of climate change. ”Not all the scientific world is crying disaster,” Cardinal Renato Martino, who heads the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, told Vatican Radio at the start of the two-day conference he hosted. [...] Four years ago, Martino hosted a similar conference on genetically modified foods - which he supports - and the Vatican has yet to issue any document on that similarly charged topic.
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