Would be nice if Pope Francis denounced Brown’s comments (he won’t).

Via HuffPo:

California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) on Tuesday urged a group of 60 mayors to take action in their cities on climate change, warning that global warming is “the biggest threat of our time” and denouncing skeptics as “troglodytes.”

At a climate change conference hosted by Pope Francis at the Vatican and attended by U.S. mayors and global leaders, Brown offered a dire assessment of climate change’s potential effects in the near future.

“We don’t even know how far we’ve gone, or if we’ve gone over the edge,” Brown said. “This is not some linear set of problems that we can predict. We have to take measures against an uncertain future which may well be something no one ever wants. We are talking about extinction. We are talking about climate regimes that have not been seen for tens of millions of years. We’re not there yet, but we’re on our way.”

Brown criticized politicians and business leaders who are skeptical of global warming and its effects as “troglodytes” who have a vested interest in “bamboozling” the public about man-made climate change.

The Vatican conference, attended by municipal leaders like New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, comes one month after the release of the pope’s encyclical on climate change that called for a “bold cultural revolution” to fight global warming.