By Eric W. Dolan, rawstory.com

A prominent climate change denier compared Pope Francis’ calls to protect the environment to pagan human sacrifices at a recent event.

“Aztec priests encouraged people to sacrifice blood to the gods to end severe drought,” Marc Morano said at the event, which was aimed at convincing the pope to not support United Nations action on the environment.

“Today we are told we need a fundamental transformation of our lives in order to end bad weather,” he said. “We are told we need EPA regulations and UN treaties in order to spare us from more hurricanes and floods and droughts and all this bad weather.”

The event in Rome was hosted by the Heartland Institute late last month. The group describes itself as “the world’s leading think tank promoting scientific skepticism about man-caused global warming” and said they held the event because they were worried the pope was being misled by United Nations officials.

During his speech, Morano described climate change as deadly cult.

“In the past, pagans sacrificed animals and even humans in vain attempts to placate capricious and cruel gods. Today they demand a reduction in CO2 emissions,” he said, quoting Australian cardinal George Pell.

Morano, the executive editor of ClimateDepot.com, noted that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had said “science and religion are not at odds on climate change” after meeting with Pope Francis.

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