Stories tagged with: climate change

• Most Protestant pastors see human activity behind global warming

  by Aaron Earls, posted Tuesday, April 21, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- For the first time, a majority of Protestant pastors believe global warming is happening and caused by humans.

  A survey from Nashville-based LifeWay Research found 53 percent of Protestant pastors agree with the statement, "I believe global warming is real and man-made," including 34 percent who strongly agree. Read More

• U.N. climate change report countered by 'real data'

  by David Roach, posted Tuesday, October 09, 2018 (5 years ago)

  

  Photo from NASA.

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- A United Nations report calling for "unprecedented" changes in energy use to limit climate change is unnecessarily alarmist and seems informed by a non-biblical view of human life, say a Southern Baptist climate scientist and a seminary president.

  "Look at the real data," said John Christy, a former lead author for the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). "Remember that human life is precious. And thus providing access to [energy sources] that enhance human life is really the moral track to take here. I just wouldn't be too excited about these reports from government entities like the United Nations." Read More

• Climate change critics perceive threat from AGs

  by David Roach, posted Tuesday, April 12, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- An effort by 17 state and territorial attorneys general and former vice president Al Gore to find "creative ways to enforce" laws related to climate change has been characterized as contrary to the spirit of a 2007 Southern Baptist Convention resolution "on global warming."

  Evangelical climate change experts have added that the coalition of attorneys general from 15 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands seems to have made assertions in conflict with constitutional principles and sound scientific procedure. Read More

• Climate change accord draws concern for poor

  by David Roach, posted Monday, December 14, 2015 (8 years ago)

  PARIS (BP) -- The climate change accord struck in Paris among 195 nations thankfully is nonbinding, evangelical commentators noted, because rigorous implementation of it could harm the world's poorest residents and stifle nations' economic growth based on disputed science. Read More

• Scientists: investigate climate change skeptics

  by WORLD News Service & Baptist Press staff, posted Tuesday, October 13, 2015 (8 years ago)

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Climate change is the focus of dueling calls for investigation in Washington.

  The controversy began Sept. 1, when a consortium of 20 climate scientists urged the Obama administration in a letter to investigate researchers who don't support man-made climate change theories. Read More

• Evangelicals: Pope's proposals likely to hurt poor

  by Tom Strode, posted Friday, July 10, 2015 (9 years ago)

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Pope Francis' proposals to remedy climate change will likely harm those he most wants to help, according to a Baptist seminary president and an evangelical spokesman. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: The environment -- Why be concerned?

  by Jeffrey B. Riley/New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, posted Monday, April 06, 2015 (9 years ago)

  Ethics professor Jeffrey Riley extends an invitation to attend or view online a forum on "Christians, the Environment, and Climate Change," April 10-11 at New Orleans Seminary. Read More

• Climate policies said to harm poor

  by David Roach, posted Monday, September 29, 2014 (9 years ago)

  “The blind embrace of many environmentalist policy proposals will harm the poor….”

  -- Benjamin Phillips

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- In a preemptive response to President Obama's proposals at the United Nations for addressing climate change, a group of faith leaders released a document claiming that policies aimed at curbing carbon emissions tend to harm the poor unnecessarily. Read More

• Evangelicals & environmentalists cooperate?

  by David Roach, posted Monday, September 29, 2014 (9 years ago)

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Amid polarized debate on climate change, Southern Baptists' lead ethicist has called conservative evangelicals and secular environmentalists to cooperate on issues of creation care. Read More

• Intl group disavows U.N.'s climate claims

  by Gregory Tomlin, posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 (16 years ago)

  ORIGINALLY POSTED March 19, 2008

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--TIME magazine warned that scientists had observed "bizarre and unpredictable weather patterns" which led them to believe the world was headed for "a global climatic upheaval." Fluctuations in temperature, rainfall and sea ice were all described as signs of impending doom.

  But the scientists interviewed by TIME weren't talking about global warming, and the magazine wasn't issued in the 21st century. The June 1974 report in TIME... Read More