The Pope weighs in an we are in for an 'unholy row'

G

eoffrey Lean has warned us that we should “Stand by for an unholy row”.

The environment columnist with The Telegraph in London has written that the Pope is expected this week to come out as perhaps the world's most effective environmental campaigner.

Lean says we should be prepared for an unholy row in his story, “Is the Pope a greenie? You bet”.

 

The Melbourne Age published Lean's column today.

Climate change commentary calls for action

A climate change advocate, Telegraph
journalist, Geoffrey Lean.

Commentary of every variety has swept around the world since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its fifth report on Saturday.

Not surprisingly some of that has been generated by the entrenched climate change doubters, but much has come from enlightened observers who have effectively pleaded with our governments, whether they be local, state or national, to take positive steps to mitigate the continued emissions of greenhouse gases.

Writing in the Melbourne Age, an environmental columnist with the London’s The Telegraph, Geoffrey Lean, wrote in an article headed: “Global warming is screaming at us”, that there is still not enough action from governments.