Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Peak Oil by: Phil
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06 Jun
The Australian lobby group Getup has launched a campaign targeted at both the Government and opposition, aimed to reduce Australia’s dependence on oil. The campaign is intended to tackle the Peak Oil issue at the same time as reducing greenhouse emissions.
Getup is asking people to write emails, asking for
massive federal investment in public transport,
laws for dramatically […]
Posted in Climate Change, Environment by: Phil
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01 Feb
3) “The whole global warming thing is just a big scare campaign”
People have very definite ideas about what they believe is reasonable based upon their experiences of life so far. You can tell your toddlers that running across the road is dangerous, but convincing them is another thing entirely. Teenagers are bombarded with information about […]
Posted in Climate Change, Environment by: Phil
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05 Jan
Continuing on in the same vein of objections raised by some Christians to Global Warming, here’s another common one:
2) “Global warming science leaves God out of the picture.”
Any reasonable person has to admit that science is limited. Scientists have been wrong before and will be wrong again. Logically, if God is real then He is […]
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23 Dec
Questions on Global Warming
If you’ve read my last post, you’ll probably realise that many Christians have different views than the one I’ve put forward and that many of these views are quite sincere. This does not mean the Bible is contradicting itself - it doesn’t spell out what to do, only what principles we should […]
Posted in Climate Change, Environment by: Phil
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23 Dec
What should Christians think?
There are a range of responses that have come from the Christian community toward Climate Change. Some of these have been Christian by definition (in the same pattern as Christ); others have been motivated not by the character of God, but by cultural beliefs. In the worst cases the responses have left […]