There has been much talk of a “pause” in global warming. New evidence utterly undermines that argument and instead attributes the discussion to “seepage.”
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/06/global_warming_hiatus_new_data_show_there_s_no_pause_in_global_warming.html
Also, the Heartland Institute has some important information for Pope Francis regarding climate change:
Available data indicate we have time to improve the scientific understanding of the AGW issue before making critical decisions regarding CO2 emissions, with potentially severe adverse consequences. This is especially true for the poor in developing nations who need unfettered access to relatively inexpensive fossil fuel energy sources to improve their quality of life, while benefitting from higher atmospheric CO2 levels that provide for immediate needs of increased food production …There is no compelling scientific or humanitarian reason for immediate enactment of world-wide CO2 emission controls, as the UN is urging you to recommend in your soon to be released encyclical on the environment.
The Institute cites a paper published by a group calling themselves the Right Climate Stuff (as in not Left?), a twenty-odd group of NASA scientists who have issued a research paper disproving the need for aggressive response to anthropogenic climate change. Interestingly, it doesn't seem to have been published in any respected peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps they could find one along the lines of the journal that offered to
publish Jack's efforts.