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Science and Faith to battle climate change

A summary of a recent Catholic event on climate change. David Titley spoke on the science part of climate change and climate action.

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Photo: Catholic Bishop Francis DiLorenzo, the leader of the local diocese, speaks at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, in Norfolk, Virginia, Aug. 25, 2015. Bishop Dilorenzo was at the church to head up a panel discussion about climate change.The focus includes Pope Francis’ recent encyclical telling Catholics they have moral responsibility to address climate change. L. Todd Spencer | The Virginian-Pilot (L. Todd Spencer | The Virginian-Pilot)

David W. Titley shows how temperatures have risen.

Panelists give human face to climate change

At its heart, climate change is not about stranded polar bears on rapidly diminishing ice sheets; it is an issue of human life and well-being that hits the vulnerable the hardest. That was the overarching message of a three-person panel discussion at Marymount University in Arlington Oct. 22.

Entitled “Catholics and Climate Change: Faith, Security and Health Perspectives,” the event was in part a response to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ support of a national carbon pollution standard and call to build solutions to climate change on a foundation of economic and social justice.

Click here to read the full article at the Catholic Herald: http://catholicherald.com/stories/Panelists-give-human-face-to-climate-change,27443