What the Pope really said about climate change

Showing, yet again, the apparent inability of newspaper editors to actually understand nuanced and carefully stated positions that don't fit neatly into their nice little news-story httpcategories, we have had reports of the Pope being a climate change skeptic. Actually that's not true. His concern, though was to make sure that justice issues are not lost in climate change mitigation processes.

'Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken, decisions aimed at strengthening that covenant between human beings and the environment....Human beings, obviously, are of supreme worth vis-�-vis creation as a whole. Respecting the environment does not mean considering material or animal nature more important than man. Rather, it means not selfishly considering nature to be at the complete disposal of our own interests, for future generations also have the right to reap its benefits.'"

Ben Goldacre: Twisting the Pope's words on climate change | Comment is free | The Guardian: See also the whole speech.