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Pacific island nations have taken the significant step of calling on the UN Security Council to address climate change as an issue of international peace and security - something security experts such as Thomas Homer-Dixon from the University of Toronto have been warning us of for at least 15 years.
While some have perhaps naively suggested […]

A little while ago I wrote to The Member for Eden Monaro Dr Mike Kelly asking for some information on how the Australian Government was dealing with Global Oil Depletion. Dr Kelly responded with a copy of a speech by Mr Martin Ferguson, Energy & Resources Minister. While I don’t have an electronic copy to […]

Sent to the editor of the Cooma Express on 9 June, 08
Rough estimates say that a $US1 per barrel increase in the price of oil gives us a 1c increase in petrol costs. That’s pretty significant when you think about how every one was carrying on about the potential 2c per litre change that Fuel […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]