See the attached article from the Daily Mail. The Man Made Global Warming by Carbon Dioxide phenomenom all to frequently is based upon politics and not science.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-501316/The-Pope-condemns-climate...

I have no issues in "confessing my carbon footprint", but not because I buy into this political garbage attempting to panic the global public that global warming is particularly and pointedly due to anthropogenic reasons. That is why I have become so endeared to the Pope. He has come out strongly on the dangers and damages much of this emotionally politically motivated rhetoric has caused. The message should be toward proper stewardship of G-d's earth much like the readings this past Sunday brought out. I'm not about to get into some sort of a remedial argument about this period of warming the earth is experiencing. The really sad thing is that for all the wrong reasons, a normal earthly cycle like we are experiencing, has finally raised human awareness that we all must be good stewards of G-d's planet. The tragedy is what Pope Benedict was getting at, i.e., its political exploitation.