Pope Francis is breaking all the glass ceilings for the religious world. For those of the Christian faith, Global Warming was of no concern. Some would argue that God would fix the issue because people were the center of the earth. And since people were God's main focus, he would never let them perish and they were inevitable to nature's wrath.
But clearly that has changed. I am not saying that the human race is being abandoned by the God you believe in, but we are abusing the gift we were given. In order to keep the world in homeostasis, the forces of nature have to try to move as fast as we are changing it.
More christians are believing in science now than ever. People started raising the ideology that a god might be able to place the law of science into motion. Science and religion do not have to combat each other, if anything, it seems like they would be supporting in some aspects. If the Pope can believe in human induced climate change and work with people like Stephen Hawking, then I believe everyone else can.
Rick Santorum once spoke out to the Pope, saying that he should leave science to the scientists.
According to TIME, Pope Francis had a certification, equivalent to a US community college degree, in Chemistry and actually worked as a lab technician before entering the religious forefront (http://time.com/3907567/pope-francis-rick-santorum...).
I don't know about you, but I could barely take a high school chemistry exam without crying.
Pope Francis had said, "The submission of politics to a technology and an economy which seek profit above all else...". Greed and gluttony are two of the seven deadly sins. Of course this is a religious issue as well.
His holiness also stated, “to commit a crime against the natural world is a sin against ourselves and a sin against God.” Not only are these things sins, but climate change is effecting innocent people and destroying a gift given from God.