Pope Leo rebukes climate skeptics after Trump calls warming a ‘con job’ Pope Leo XIV denounced people who deny climate change on Wednesday, arguing that they are contributing to the destruction of God’s creation. The pope was speaking on Wednesday at a conference commemorating the 10-year anniversary of Laudato Si, a 2015 formal doctrinal letter issued by his predecessor, Pope Francis, that called for the protection of the planet, including the fight against climate change. Leo is not speaking as a defender of God’s creation: he’s speaking as a high ranking member of the cult of climastrology. (The Daily Sentinel) Pope Leo XIV urged people Wednesday not to resign themselves to the global crisis of climate change but play an active part in stopping it, at an event with “Terminator” star Arnold Schwarzenegger. US-born Pope Leo, who was elected head of the Catholic Church in May following Francis’s death, said it was time for “everyone in society… (to) put pressure on governments”.