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July 4, 2009

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The Cornwall Alliance is a coalition of clergy, theologians, religious leaders, scientists, academics, and policy experts committed to bringing a balanced Biblical view of stewardship to the critical issues of environment and development. The Cornwall Alliance fully supports the principles espoused in the Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship, and is seeking to promote those principles in the discussion of various public policy issues including population and poverty, food, energy, water, endangered species, habitat, and other related topics.
Press Releases
Evangelicals Say Poor, Minorities Will Be Hardest Hit By Climate Legislation
Religious Coalition Calls On Congress To Care For “The Least Of These”

“The Waxman-Markey bill’s passage through committee may be a boost to wealthy investors in alternative energy companies, but it is a massive tax increase and a heavy burden to lay on Americans with low and middle incomes.

“It’s a tax on the poor. The poor spend a much higher portion of their income on home energy, transportation, and necessities—like groceries, clothing, and housing costs—than the wealthy. Cap-and-trade will make all of those things more expensive.”   CA

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Evangelical “voice of reason” on climate change staffs up with addition of top-flight executive director to expand national outreach

"I’ve been fighting for pro-life and pro-family values for the past twenty-five years, and I am excited to continue that work with the Cornwall Alliance. Environmental stewardship and care for the poor are deeply Biblical issues, but secular environmentalism has increasingly set its sights on limiting development and reducing human population.

“Now, at a time when American families are struggling to make ends meet, Washington is considering a host of ill-advised measures that would make prices for energy, food, and other essential needs skyrocket.”   CA

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Cornwall Stewardship Agenda

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

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Seminary Student’s Climate Change Project is not SBC’s

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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Stewardship Notes

July 1, 2009 — Scientists Duel with Letters on Global Warming
On June 19, the Woods Hole Research Center released an open letter from scientists to the President and members of Congress calling for “strong leadership” to avert “a rapidly developing... ECB

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June 23, 2009 — CBO’s Smoke and Mirrors with Cap-and-Trade Cost Numbers
The Heritage Foundation estimated a month ago that cap-and-trade legislation making its way through the House of Representatives would cost the average American household about $1,500 a... ECB

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March 16, 2009 — Manmade Warming On Hold, or Errant Alarmists Seeking Cover?
A recent article (‘Global Warming: On Hold?’, Michael Reilly, Discovery News) focuses on the recent plateau of global air temperatures.  After air temperatures rose dramatically since the... 

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October 1, 2008 — History of Hockey Stick Collapse, Medieval Warm Period Reconfirmed
Two new papers at the Science and Environmental Policy Project reveal the history of the controversy over the “hockey stick” graph of global temperature over the last 1300 years. They tell... ECB

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October 1, 2008 — Climatologist Roy Spencer Summarizes the Case Against Global Warming Alarmism
Cornwall colleague Roy Spencer, principal research scientist at the University of Alabama and, with John Christy, in charge of the NASA remote satellite temperature sensing program (the... ECB

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September 30, 2008 — Resource: “Sceptics Handbook” Simplifies the Case Against Manmade Warming
http://joannenova.com.au/globalwarming/scepticshandbook1-3.pdf

Joanne Nova believed in manmade warming by carbon dioxide emissions from 1990-2007.

Not any more.

She is now convinced...

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September 29, 2008 — Green-Collar Jobs--or Con Jobs?
Environmental-union-politico alliances use their clout to promote new energy, economic vision. Will it create jobs, without impacting existing jobs, living standards and economic... ECB

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September 26, 2008 — Pritchard vs. Spencer: What Is the Proper Christian Stance on Climate Change?
Stuck in the Middle on Climate
by Rusty Pritchard
CounterCulture, September 21, 2008
http://countercultureblog.com/?p=218

Those on the left sometimes seem to claim unanimity among...

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