Global warming will cost the world a huge amount of $20 Trillion over 2 decades for finding cleaner energy sources.
The treaty, replacing the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012, could shape the course of climate change for decades to come. The Kyoto pact requires 37 industrial nations to reduce greenhouse gases by a relatively modest 5 percent on average.
A Primer on Climate Change
An increasing number of Canadians, including Evangelicals, say they are concerned about the environment. So Faith Today asked two experts to share their understanding of climate change, informed by an evangelical perspective.
The sign in front of the church read “So you think this is hot?” It was an uncharacteristically warm August in 1972. A searing heat wave was gripping the West Coast. This clever pastor had just set up his Sunday sermon – he didn’t even need to complete his comparison.
Today that witty sign feels dated and not quite as funny. Global warming commands headlines and climate change is talked about everywhere from elementary schools to Parliament Hill.
The media often show us some amazing photos of planet Earth taken from space. Who doesn’t wonder at the beauty of our watery blue planet, hanging like a jewel?
This “beautiful, warm, living object,” recalls James Irwin, an Apollo 15 lunar module pilot, “looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man, has to make a man appreciate the creation of God and the love of God.”
Indeed! Although in the whirl of our lives today many of us can easily take for granted the ordinary blessings of God’s good Earth, many of us are also trying to assess the dire warnings about climate change that are abroad in our day.
No respected voices are claiming that the Earth is likely to crumble and fall apart, but an increasing number of Earth scientists, climatologists and astronauts are encouraging us to recognize today that something fundamental is changing on the planet. Humans now have the power, leveraged through our remarkable machines, to alter entire Earth systems significantly.
The sign in front of the church read “So you think this is hot?” It was an uncharacteristically warm August in 1972. A searing heat wave was gripping the West Coast. This clever pastor had just set up his Sunday sermon – he didn’t even need to complete his comparison.
Today that witty sign feels dated and not quite as funny. Global warming commands headlines and climate change is talked about everywhere from elementary schools to Parliament Hill.
The media often show us some amazing photos of planet Earth taken from space. Who doesn’t wonder at the beauty of our watery blue planet, hanging like a jewel?
This “beautiful, warm, living object,” recalls James Irwin, an Apollo 15 lunar module pilot, “looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man, has to make a man appreciate the creation of God and the love of God.”
Indeed! Although in the whirl of our lives today many of us can easily take for granted the ordinary blessings of God’s good Earth, many of us are also trying to assess the dire warnings about climate change that are abroad in our day.
No respected voices are claiming that the Earth is likely to crumble and fall apart, but an increasing number of Earth scientists, climatologists and astronauts are encouraging us to recognize today that something fundamental is changing on the planet. Humans now have the power, leveraged through our remarkable machines, to alter entire Earth systems significantly.
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