Environmentalist 'Christians' Say Man Controls Nature, Not God

The liberal National Council of Churches says about 100 religious representatives from the United States will attend the climate summit in Copenhagen this week to 'witness' to the necessity for mankind to change the climate trends of the earth (as designed by God) because Al Gore has convinced them.

UPDATE 12/10/09: Climate: The new god of left-wing Christianity

-- From "Religious groups active in climate debate" by Brian Winter, USA Today 12/7/09

. . . religious leaders in Copenhagen will include Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual head of the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican Communion; Richard Cizik, a former vice president of the National Association of Evangelicals; Jim Ball, head of the Evangelical Environmental Network; South African cleric and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu; and representatives from the National Council of Churches (NCC), which encompasses more than 100,000 Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, Evangelical and other congregations with 45 million members across the USA.

There is a wide range of views among — and within — different faiths as to the fundamental questions in the environmental debate: to what extent climate change is occurring, whether human activity is responsible for it, and what, if anything, should be done as a result.

Some are actively pushing against Copenhagen's agenda.

E. Calvin Breisner, a founder of the Cornwall Alliance, a coalition of clergy, scientists and academics, says recent data show the human role in causing global warming is minimal or non-existent. Religious figures who say otherwise, without a full background in science and economics, "risk an abuse of their moral authority," Breisner says.

If anyone can help move the debate, it's faith-based leaders, says Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.

"This is a very religious country. God the Creator still does better in polls than any politician," says Lieberman, who backs legislation to mandate lower carbon emissions. He says he first began to embrace the environmental cause 20 years ago because of his own spiritual beliefs.

Ball's pet cause is a proposal for rich countries, including the USA, to send poorer countries money — at least $10 billion a year will be needed, the U.N.'s Ban says. The funds would help the countries overhaul their economies to pollute less, and cope with possible consequences of climate change such as lower agricultural yields, or rising seas that could devastate island nations.

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Chill settling on global warming debate

A new peer-reviewed study in the scientific journal Nature may be hard for Al Gore and other global warming activists to swallow.

-- From "Chill settling on global warming debate" by Jim Brown on OneNewsNow.com 5/2/2008

The study predicts that global warming will stop until at least 2015, a prediction that contradicts the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former Vice President Gore, who have issued dire warnings about rising global temperatures. The document notes that global surface temperature will not increase until 2015, "as natural climate variations in the North Atlantic and tropical Pacific temporarily offset the projected anthropogenic [manmade] warming."

The prediction is based on initial findings from a new computer model about how the oceans behave over decades. Paul Driessen, senior policy advisor for the Congress of Racial Equality and Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, says although the new model is improved because it takes into account the influence of ocean currents, it will be decades before scientists understand all the factors influencing climate change.

. . . Driessen is also a former Sierra Club member and has written extensively on global climate change. "Certainly the climate is changing -- warming [and] cooling. It's been doing that for a long time. I don't see that there's any evidence for a catastrophe, and what we're dealing with to a large extent is an awful lot of headlines, hype, hysteria, Hollywood special effects, and computer models. But they are not evidence that humans are driving some kind of catastrophic climate change -- certainly any kind of climate change that we haven't seen the past," Driessen points out.

According to Driessen, like other computer models used to study climate, this one should also be "taken with a grain of salt." He believes, although the study argues the change in ocean currents is masking man-made global warming, when one looks at the record, it is not borne out. He notes temperatures went up and down in the 20th century while carbon dioxide was increasing in the atmosphere.

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UK High Court Declares Al Gore's Movie Inconveniently Inaccurate

Judge rules Al Gore’s award-winning climate change documentary littered with nine significant untruths...

From "Al Gore’s inconvenient judgment" by Lewis Smith, posted 10/11/07 at TimesOnline

Al Gore’s award-winning climate change documentary was littered with nine inconvenient untruths, a judge ruled yesterday.

An Inconvenient Truth won plaudits from the environmental lobby and an Oscar from the film industry but was found wanting when it was scrutinised in the High Court in London.

Mr Justice Burton identified nine significant errors within the former presidential candidate’s documentary as he assessed whether it should be shown to school children. He agreed that Mr Gore’s film was “broadly accurate” in its presentation of the causes and likely effects of climate change but said that some of the claims were wrong and had arisen in “the context of alarmism and exaggeration.”

...The claim that sea levels could rise by 20ft “in the near future” was dismissed as “distinctly alarmist”. Such a rise would take place “only after, and over, millennia”.

Mr Justice Burton added: “The ar-mageddon scenario he predicts, inso-far as it suggests that sea level rises of seven metres might occur in the immediate future, is not in line with the scientific consensus.”

A claim that atolls in the Pacific had already been evacuated was supported by “no evidence”, while to suggest that two graphs showing carbon dioxide levels and temperatures over the last 650,000 years were an “exact fit” overstated the case.

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