We have seen that the scientific data quite definitely shows that the world is warming up, and the last decade has been the warmest on record. And we have seen that this has four clear effects:
So why should christians be concerned about these effects?
With the London Olympic Games about to begin, now is a good time to remember one of my ‘heroes’.
He was probably Australia’s greatest male sprint athlete, a silver medallist at the 1968 Games in Mexico City. This is the best an Australian male sprinter has ever finished, and in a time that, amazingly, is still the Australian record. He is almost forgotten in his own country, yet famous in the US for something more important than running fast.
This is the story of Peter Norman – a story that deserves to be remembered.
I read a news report today, in the wake of the horrifying cinema shootings in Denver, about statements made by members of the Westboro Baptist church.
I don’t live in the US, so I don’t know a lot about this church, but the statements were hateful and insensitive to those mourning the trauma and loss of this shocking event.
The hotter temperatures that the world is now experiencing (see The heat is on!) have a significant impact on weather generally.
There has been a long campaign for chocolate companies to only source their cocoa from farms that don’t use trafficked child labour, and who pay the workers a fair wage. And progress has been slow.
I have previously reported how I have joined many others in writing to chocolate companies here in Australia asking them to adopt Fairtrade or other certification that guarantees ethical practices.
So it is always good to celebrate encouraging news.
The most basic prediction of climate change science is global warming. But is it really happening?
I have blogged on climate change before – see Climate change and christians and Christians and climate change.
Almost another year has passed and new information is now available. It’s time to review.
Over the next couple of weeks I’ll look at the evidence, the causes and the effects.
Most importantly, I’ll be looking at why it is important for christians to respond rightly to this issue, and what is making it difficult for us to do so.
Photo: Camgreen (Wikispaces).
The battle lines used to seem so clear.
Religion taught that we earned favour with God by “being good” or “doing good works”.
Christianity, on the other hand, taught that we received favour from God by grace, through faith. Ephesians 2:8-9.
QED.
“Make your life extraordinary” is the advice school teacher John Keating gives his class in Dead Poets Society.
Otis Clark seemed to achieve this without really trying.
Otis died recently at the age of 109. He had a long and eventful life.
