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What Do Scientists Say?

    We can choose to listen and learn from those who have devoted their lives to the study of science.   As it turns out, many scientist are also people of faith.   Here is their input on the environmental and moral challenge of climate chanage.    
       
   

    What the Religious Community Says

An interview in “Grist” with Richard Cizik, Vice President of the National Association of Evangelicals   October 2005    

 

The Science of Climate Change: An Examination of the Scientific, Ethical and Theological Implications of Climate Change Policy   in PDF
The Interfaith Stewardship Alliance is a coalition of religious leaders, clergy, theologians, scientists, academics, and other policy experts committed to bringing a proper and balanced Biblical view of stewardship to the critical issues of environment and development

 

Sir John Houghton Speaks   Sir John is is a recently retired physics professor at Oxford University, the chief executive of the U.K.'s Meteorological Office, and chair of the Scientific Assessment Working Group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He is also an Evangelical Christian.   An interview in the April 2006 issue of "Christianity Today"

 

Testimony before the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on July 21, 2005.   Reported in the Evangelical Environmental Network magazine.

 

Presentation to the National Association of Evangelicals   Handouts   March, 2005

 

Evangelical Environmental Network’s Global Warming Briefing for Evangelical Leaders   in PDF format

         
   

    What the Scientific Organizations Say

 

American Geophysical Union   Human Impacts on Climate   2003   AGU is a worldwide scientific community that advances, through unselfish cooperation in research, the understanding of Earth and space for the benefit of humanity. font>

 

Australian Department of the Environment and Heritage;   Twenty-two questions answered about climate change.   This is a large 1Mb PDF file.

 

Climate Change Science:  An Analysis of Some Key Questions   The National Academies Press

 

National Center for Atmospheric Research   Up-to-date scientific news.   Be sure and check out the “Our Research” on Climate Change section.

 

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Vectorborne Infectious Diseases. Climate Variability and Change in the United States:    Potential Impacts on Vector- and Rodent-Borne Diseases   In PDF

 

The Worldbook Encyclopedia Online – Causes and Effects of Global Warming

 

   

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