Full Description:
Global warming: it's one of the hottest scientific and political issues of today. And yet we've all found ourselves asking . . .
- It's freezing outside--where's global warming now?
- Climate is always changing--how do we know this isn't just a cycle?
- Why should Christians care about global warming when we know the world won't end that way?
For all the talk about climate change, there's still a great deal of debate about what it all means, especially among Christians. A CLIMATE FOR CHANGE offers straightforward answers to these questions, without the spin. This book untangles the complex science and tackles many long-held misconceptions about global warming. Authored by a climate scientist and a pastor, A CLIMATE FOR CHANGE boldly explores the role our Christian faith can play in guiding our opinions on this important global issue.
Book Website: http://climateforchangethebook.com/
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About Authors:
Katharine Hayhoe
Katharine is a climate scientist and geoscience professor at Texas Tech University. A Toronto native and Illinois graduate, she tells everyone she has moved to Texas to anticipate global warming!
Katharine is an author of a number of studies that examine how climate change will affect the places where we live and the things that we care about. This includes the U.S. Global Change Research Program's 2009 report on climate impacts in the United States. Her work has been featured in over two hundred newspapers and media outlets around the world, including the BBC, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, and even Sports Illustrated--not the swimsuit edition, in case anyone was wondering.
Katharine is also honored to have contributed her research to and served as an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
Follow @KatharineHayhoe on Twitter for frequent updates on the latest climate change science.
Andrew Farley
Andrew Farley is the lead teaching pastor of Ecclesia (EcclesiaOnline.com) and co-hosts Real Life in Christ, a 30-minute program that airs every week on ABC-TV in the West Texas area. Andrew served as a professor at the University of Notre Dame for five years and is now a tenured professor at Texas Tech University. Andrew has coauthored three textbooks and more than a dozen journal articles. He is also the author of The Naked Gospel: The Truth You May Never Hear in Church.
Follow @andrewfarley on Twitter for updates.
My Take on the Book:
For the most part, this was an interesting book. The science behind it is what appealed to me. I rather enjoyed reading about the changes going on our planet. Most of them we all know of, and yes, I do what I can to help lessen my output into the atmosphere. The authors did inspire me to want to do even more. Which is always good. Though at times I really didn't see where "God" fit into the book. The things happening to our world we know is human error. Here is an example from the book to show what I mean, and even better, the book is quoting the Bible....
"For He does not willingly bring affliction or grief to any human being" (TNIV). When it comes to climate change, we are the authors. Not God.
~ Page 65
The point is, I was already grabbed by the author upon mentioning global warming. Then bringing a religious aspect into it, without justifying it being there, did nothing to keep my attention. It made me irksome at having to read it, while waiting to read more about our earth.
I do think they wrote truthfully and with great respect. Plus we all need to do more for our environment, so with that I thin everyone should read it. Some of the scientific stats in it will really make you think.
~I did not receive any compensation for this post. This is my honest opinion.~
What attracted me to this one was the idea of looking at it from a Christian viewpoint. Seems a shame that that idea is just more or less tacked on.
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