“Pessimistic language is a growing feature of popular culture…. ‘doomslang,’ a category that includes terms like ‘doomscrolling,’ ‘bed rotting,’ and ‘dumpster fire.’ Montell argues the casual adoption of apocalyptically negative language is affecting mental health.” - TGC
Survey: US Religious Groups Do Not View Climate Change as a Crisis
“Beliefs on the severity of climate change have not shifted much among religious traditions over the past decade and few religious Americans view climate change as a crisis, according to the PRRI study” - CLeaders
Canadian Christians Launch Collective for Climate Action
“To kick off this partnership, they conducted a survey of 742 Canadian Christians between the ages of 18 and 40 to learn more about what they currently think concerning climate change and how the church is already doing at addressing the issue.” - CToday
Most Protestant pastors see human activity behind global warming
“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.” - BPNews
Evangelicals aren’t ‘climate deniers’
“These are people who either believe that the warming is not predominantly caused by humans or that it does not pose catastrophic problems to our environment. They are better described as ‘climate realists’ or ‘climate skeptics.’” - Cornwall Alliance
We’re Waiting for Media’s Corrections on Ocean Warming
“Joshua Emerson Smith, a reporter for the San Diego Union-Tribune, has picked it up, and the U-T gave his story prominent placement: ‘Climate contrarian uncovers scientific error, upends major ocean warming study.’ … Smith reports that the original study’s authors acknowledged their error and thanked Lewis for pointing it out and have submitted a correction to Nature.” - Cornwall Alliance
Pray for People in Hurricane Florence’s Path—But Don’t Fall Prey to Alarmist Rhetoric
“[T[he intensity of hurricanes making landfall in the United States has been declining, as Cornwall Alliance Senior Fellow Dr. Roy Spencer (Principal Research Scientist in Climatology at the University of Alabama-Huntsville, and U.S.
Manmade pollutants now blamed for global cooling
“Pollution in the atmosphere is having an unexpected consequence, scientists say – it’s helping to cool the climate, masking some of the global warming that’s occurred so far,” Scientific American reported last week. OneNewsNow
“Extreme climate events are becoming neither more intense nor more frequent”
“Diagnostic tools that chart the frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones globally and regionally — such as their number and the energy associated with them — show a cyclic pattern to hurricane activity but no long-term trend.” Climate Change and the Christian Faith
Introducing the global warming speedometer
“A single devastating graph shows official climate predictions were wild”