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Articles
- Climate Policy: Theological, Scientific, and Economic Considerations
A Panel Presentation to the Fourth International Conference on Climate Change
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (May 18, 2010)
Mike Hulme, founding director of the Tyndall Centre and Professor of Climate Change (note that title—not of climate, but of climate change) at the University of East Anglia, home of the Climatic Research Unit, of Climategate infamy, [has identified] “Four Myths” common to environmentalism: Lamenting Eden, Presaging Apocalypse, Reconstructing Babel (promoting technology as the solution to all problems), and Celebrating Jubilee. Keep in mind that Hulme mentored Phil Jones and many other leading “climate scientists.”
Don’t let Hulme’s calling these “myths” mislead you. He doesn’t mean to denigrate them as false. He means to highlight their culture-shaping power, whether true or false.... CA
- An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming
(December 3, 2009)
As governments consider policies to fight alleged man-made global warming, evangelical leaders have a responsibility to be well informed, and then to speak out. CA
- A Renewed Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the Poor
An Evangelical Examination of the Theology, Science, and Economics of Global Warming
(December 3, 2009)
The world is in the grip of an idea: that burning fossil fuels to provide affordable, abundant energy is causing global warming that will be so dangerous that we must stop it by reducing our use of fossil fuels, no matter the cost.
Is that idea true?
We believe not.
CA
- Cornwall Stewardship Agenda
(April 17, 2008)
God calls us to steward creation, but presently much environmental advocacy and activism contradict sound theology and sound science. In response to this, a diverse task force representing a wide range of the theological, scientific and economic disciplines has been brought together to craft the Cornwall Stewardship Agenda. This agenda is designed to flesh out the broad principles of the 2000 Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship (endorsed by over 1,500 clergy, religious leaders, and other people of faith), and answer the practical question of what public policy principles religious leaders and policymakers should support in their desire to achieve Biblically balanced stewardship. CA
- Seminary Student’s Climate Change Project is not SBC’s
Reprinted with permission of the Baptist Press*
(March 10, 2008)
The so-called “Southern Baptist” statement is not an initiative of the Southern Baptist Convention, which voiced its views on global warming last summer in a resolution, “On Global Warming”.
“[Southern Baptists] reserve to themselves the right to decide through Convention action what the Southern Baptist Convention’s public policy positions are to be,” ERLC President Richard Land said. “[T]he Convention has officially addressed the issues of creation care and environmental stewardship in its 2006 and 2007 Conventions through resolutions adopted by the Convention’s duly elected messengers,” and the 2007 resolution “is as close to an ‘official’ position as the SBC is capable of making, apart from its formal confession of faith, the Baptist Faith and Message.” CA
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