Green stuff

George Monbiot claims victory over arch-’skeptic’ Ian Plimer.
But you can watch the debate and make your own mind up.
My money’s on Monbiot. But you knew that.

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From the Methodist Church
Over half of people in Britain have taken steps to reduce the amount of energy they use at home in the last year.
As governments prepare to meet in Copenhagen to discuss climate change, a new YouGov survey, on behalf of the Methodist Church, found that 55% of people have cut their home [...]

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As participants gather in Copenhagen for the Climate conference, the BBC presents some of the skeptics’ arguments side-by-side with typical responses.

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I see that Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, has stepped aside following the controversy over the hacking of the unit’s email
Professor Jones said: “What is most important is that CRU continues its world-leading research with as little interruption and diversion as possible.
“After a good deal of [...]

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The leaders of the Baptist, Methodist and United Reformed churches have called on the government to put pressure on the world’s richest countries to reach a binding agreement at next week’s climate change conference in Copenhagen.
The churches argue that since developed countries such as the UK and US owe their wealth to activities producing high [...]

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Irony alert.
Pajamas Media on ‘Climategate’
So what does this all mean? It does not mean that there is no warming trend or that mankind has not been responsible for at least some of the warming. To claim that as result of these documents is clearly a step too far. However, it is clear that at [...]

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In advance of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, a group of 26 scientists have issued The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Climate Science Report, which aims to highlight the main issues for the negotiations.
The most significant recent climate change findings are:
Surging greenhouse gas emissions: Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels in 2008 were nearly 40% higher than [...]

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Ben Bradley is cycling to Copenhagen
I’m a pragmatic kind-of fellow and having understood a little about advocacy and campaigning as part of my time working at an international relief and development charity, I thought it was right to offer my time and enjoyment of cycling to the cause.
I think we can all see that I [...]

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“… for Christian theology ’spirituality’ is really just another name for Christian life because Christian life is simply life in the Spirit.
“If this is right, however, then there are various consequences. In the first place, it makes no sense to think that ’spirituality’ could be a distinct part of Christian life, something one might [...]

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Energy Secretary Ed Miliband MP will host a public rally tonight in East London, to give an update, and take questions, on the current state of negotiations in the lead to Copenhagen.
The rally comes in the midst of a number of important meetings - such as the UK hosted Major Economies Forum, the EU Council [...]

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Richard Vautrey, Vice President of the Methodist Conference, attended the Archbishop’s climate change lecture yesterday. He offers a most helpful summary.
The cathedral was packed to hear him speak, and he took as his theme “The Climate Crisis: A Christian Response”.
He reflected on the story of Noah and the creation stories, and observed that humanity [...]

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In a speech given at Southwark Cathedral, Archbishop Rowan Williams has called for Christians to respond to the challenge of climate change
“If I ask what’s the point of my undertaking a modest amount of recycling my rubbish or scaling down my air travel, the answer is not that this will unquestionably save the world [...]

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You sometimes hear the claim that climate scientists are basing their work on only a century or so of data. That’s never really been true, of course, but now this notion has been completely blown out of the water. In an article for the journal Science, a team of scientists from three universities provide evidence [...]

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“Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion.
The purpose of Blog Action Day is to create a discussion. We ask bloggers to take a single day out of their schedule [...]

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No particular theme to this post…
I couldn’t help smiling last week when an old post titled The Truth of Genesis was resurrected from way back when at the very time when fresh and exciting new evidence of the story of human evolution was emerging. Not that I’ve anything against old posts rising again if folk [...]

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There are lots of places on the web you can watch videos, but TED has to be one of the most consistently engaging and informative.
Here’s a talk given by nature photographer James Balog which shows the effects of climate change through time-lapse photography of some of the world’s major glaciers. Compelling.

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Thanks to the recommendation by Halden Doerge at Inhabitatio Dei - Halden has impeccable theological taste - I’ve just bought and read How to Become a Saint(2007) by the late Jack Bernard. That God is “all love” is the sun around which the author’s down-to-earth understanding of holiness, much inspired by the “being little” [...]

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Following on from yesterday’s post, the Guardian has another letter on the subject of the role of faith communities in responding to climate change.
My experience suggests Lord May has a challenge on his hands if he expects most church leaders to play a role in mobilising people to take action against global warming (Report, 7 [...]

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Former chief scientist to the British government (and now President of the British Science Association) Lord May on Monday called for faith communities to take a lead role in motivating people to respond to the challenge of climate change.
Lord May highlighted the value of religion in uniting communities to tackle environmental challenges ahead of [...]

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