One thing climate experts often say is that people need to change their behavior to slow climate change. And they also acknowledge that they still have a lot of convincing to do before that will happen.
One man, Martin Palmer, argues that religion is a better messenger than science and politics ”” that it can do things the others cannot.
Palmer is the founder of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation, a small group working out of Bath, England. Its credo is that religions from Buddhism to Zoroastrianism are the perfect groups to become climate activists.
[blockquote][i]After church, Palmer laces up his muddy boots and walks an old Roman path to his home. [b]When Romans lived here, and the climate was warmer, they grew grapes along this path.[/b] Experts say the climate will become warm like that again. But Palmer says experts usually don’t know how to get people to do anything about it.[/i][/blockquote]
There’s no reason to get anyone to do anything about it. Current warming is not unprecedented in either magnitude or rate. England was a major wine producing region a thousand years ago, back when Greenland was, well, green.
If this chap doesn’t notice the blatant internal contradiction of his statements he really has little in the way of coherent ideas to offer anyone.
Agreed! His statement shows plainly that climate change works in cycles, and we are merely going into another warming cycle. A cycle that experts say may be going into a cooling phase again — naturally, not man-made.
“Its credo is that religions from Buddhism to Zoroastrianism are the perfect groups to become climate activists”
Don’t forget Unitarians, British Israelites, and Theosophists. Like 815, they don’t have much else to do.
Does “climate change” imply cooling or warming? This is a safe thing to be for because the climate is always doing one or the other. It’s kind of like the tide, it’s either coming in or going out. But in any event it’s all part of the natural cycle.
Climate without Christ? Climate above Christ? or Climate that honors Christ? The world may never know….certainly not from the Oven-Mit Mitered One.
put it this way- if the world were cooling would we be asked to drive bigger cars and burn extra fuel?
Br. Michael,
Climate change is the term now preferred because “Global Warming” is not brining in the desired results, thanks to the severity of this past winter with its record snowfalls and cold temperatures.