A high-resolution image of Da Vinci's Last Supper will soon be posted on the internet by an Italian technology firm, allowing art lovers and conspiracy theorists alike to scrutinise it from their own computers.
The digital imaging firm, called HAL9000 after the killer computer in Stanley Kubrick's film "2001: A Space Odyssey", will post the 16-17 giga pixel image on its website (www.haltadefinizione.com) on Saturday.
Located in a former monks' dining hall adjacent to a church in Milan, the 500-year-old mural by Leonardo Da Vinci depicts Jesus Christ when he predicts that one of his apostles will betray him....
The digital imaging firm, called HAL9000 after the killer computer in Stanley Kubrick's film "2001: A Space Odyssey", will post the 16-17 giga pixel image on its website (www.haltadefinizione.com) on Saturday.
Located in a former monks' dining hall adjacent to a church in Milan, the 500-year-old mural by Leonardo Da Vinci depicts Jesus Christ when he predicts that one of his apostles will betray him....
Standing for the reversal of deadly climate trends and human induced global warming IS THE MORAL STAND everyone should be taking. Those opposed it that reality are immoral and have an Anti-Life Agenda.
Linda Morris, Religious Affairs Reporter
October 25, 2007
AUSTRALIA'S most prominent religious sceptic of climate change, the Catholic Archbishop George Pell, was out of step within his church and the global Christian community on global warming, a leading Anglican environmentalist says.
The head of the Anglican Church's international body on the environment, George Browning, said Dr Pell's position on global warming defied scientific consensus and theological imperatives to protect the Earth and its future generations. It also made no sense and would be proven a mistake.
Bishop Browning's stance came as the Australian Anglican church prepared to adopt its strongest position yet on climate change, committing 23 dioceses to initiatives reducing their carbon footprint.
But Dr Pell said last night he had every right to be sceptical about extravagant claims of impending man-made climatic catastrophes. "There are many measures which are good for the environment, which we should pursue," he said.
"We need to be able talk freely about this and about the uncertainties around climate change. Invoking the authority of some scientific experts to shut down debate is not good for science, the environment, for people here and in the developing world or for the people of tomorrow.
"My task as a Christian leader is to engage with reality, to contribute to debate on important issues, to open people's minds, and to point out when the emperor is wearing few or no clothes.
"Radical environmentalists are more than up to the task of moralising their own agenda and imposing it on people through fear. They don't need church leaders to help them with this, although it is a very effective way of further muting Christian witness. Church leaders in particular should be allergic to nonsense."
Bishop Browning supported warnings that climate change refugees would, in the future, pose a bigger threat to world security than terrorism by triggering massive population shifts.
He also warned Australia had to dump the "language of drought" because it offered false hope to farmers by implying that after drought would come flood and a return to normal farming life. The warming of the planet had triggered irreversible climate changes that warranted fundamental changes in farming and investment practices.
Bishop Browning took issue with Dr Pell's Easter message this year at which the cardinal said Jesus had nothing to say on global warming. He told the Anglican synod meeting in Canberra yesterday he had written to Dr Pell after the Easter message because he found his statement "almost unbelievable".
AUSTRALIA'S most prominent religious sceptic of climate change, the Catholic Archbishop George Pell, was out of step within his church and the global Christian community on global warming, a leading Anglican environmentalist says.
The head of the Anglican Church's international body on the environment, George Browning, said Dr Pell's position on global warming defied scientific consensus and theological imperatives to protect the Earth and its future generations. It also made no sense and would be proven a mistake.
Bishop Browning's stance came as the Australian Anglican church prepared to adopt its strongest position yet on climate change, committing 23 dioceses to initiatives reducing their carbon footprint.
But Dr Pell said last night he had every right to be sceptical about extravagant claims of impending man-made climatic catastrophes. "There are many measures which are good for the environment, which we should pursue," he said.
"We need to be able talk freely about this and about the uncertainties around climate change. Invoking the authority of some scientific experts to shut down debate is not good for science, the environment, for people here and in the developing world or for the people of tomorrow.
"My task as a Christian leader is to engage with reality, to contribute to debate on important issues, to open people's minds, and to point out when the emperor is wearing few or no clothes.
"Radical environmentalists are more than up to the task of moralising their own agenda and imposing it on people through fear. They don't need church leaders to help them with this, although it is a very effective way of further muting Christian witness. Church leaders in particular should be allergic to nonsense."
Bishop Browning supported warnings that climate change refugees would, in the future, pose a bigger threat to world security than terrorism by triggering massive population shifts.
He also warned Australia had to dump the "language of drought" because it offered false hope to farmers by implying that after drought would come flood and a return to normal farming life. The warming of the planet had triggered irreversible climate changes that warranted fundamental changes in farming and investment practices.
Bishop Browning took issue with Dr Pell's Easter message this year at which the cardinal said Jesus had nothing to say on global warming. He told the Anglican synod meeting in Canberra yesterday he had written to Dr Pell after the Easter message because he found his statement "almost unbelievable".
Deadline set for Kyoto successor (click here)
October 26, 2007
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THE world's most influential environment ministers have endorsed finalising a successor to the Kyoto Protocol by 2009, laying down a plan for December's negotiations in Bali to design new measures to combat global warming.
Meeting in the Indonesian city of Bogor yesterday, more than 40 nations agreed tougher action was required to address climate change and produce a successor to the Kyoto Protocol.
Australia and the United States came under pressure during the meeting for failing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and commit to binding emission reduction targets.
The head of the United Nations Climate Secretariat, Yvo de Boer, said both nations had indicated a willingness to negotiate and make commitments on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but the details - including if they would be legally binding - were unclear.
Australia was represented by its ambassador to the UN, Robert Hill. Canberra is lobbying to extend emission targets to developing countries not covered by the Kyoto Protocol.
Mark Forbes
October 26, 2007
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THE world's most influential environment ministers have endorsed finalising a successor to the Kyoto Protocol by 2009, laying down a plan for December's negotiations in Bali to design new measures to combat global warming.
Meeting in the Indonesian city of Bogor yesterday, more than 40 nations agreed tougher action was required to address climate change and produce a successor to the Kyoto Protocol.
Australia and the United States came under pressure during the meeting for failing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and commit to binding emission reduction targets.
The head of the United Nations Climate Secretariat, Yvo de Boer, said both nations had indicated a willingness to negotiate and make commitments on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but the details - including if they would be legally binding - were unclear.
Australia was represented by its ambassador to the UN, Robert Hill. Canberra is lobbying to extend emission targets to developing countries not covered by the Kyoto Protocol.
Mark Forbes
