Michael Pascoe: There’s a quantifiable cost to George Pell’s style of climate denial

Insurance companies should be listened to on climate change over religious leaders like Pell, Michael Pascoe writes. Photo: Getty/TND

There is no evidence that George Pell ever advocated the burning of those he considered heretics, but then again, he was a traditionalist and very much a man of another century.

Which century is moot, though the 17th would have been a good fit given Cardinal Pell’s most demonstrable area of pig-headed ignorance – his unrepentant climate denialism.