Occupation: Author Birth: 1973
If you can frame climate change as an alternate religion, or as one more of those issues where the pointy-headed liberal atheist scientists are tryin….
It is certainly true that conservative Christians are much more likely to doubt the reality of climate change than mainline Christians or the unaffil….
People have taken advantage of the very well-trodden pathways that divide science and faith on other issues, such as creation, evolution, and the age….
For many of us, our values come from our faith..
We have to fix climate change with the people we have right now, and to a large extent with the perspectives we have right now as well..
There's no question that natural gas is a lot better than coal or oil, in the sense that natural gas produces less carbon per unit of energy produced..
The word "evangelist" means someone who spreads good news. Studying the impacts of climate change as I do, it's hard to come up with good news. In ma….
One of the biggest issues with renewables right now is the fact that if the wind isn't blowing, if the sun isn't shining, we don't have energy. Many ….
Huge advances in clean energy technology are happening all the time. Solar and wind are booming. New ways to generate energy from our windows, the pa….
Where I live, if I put solar panels on my roof I'm not allowed to sell that energy back to the grid. I can't change that restriction myself. I need o….
I feel like a physician, one who's done a scan of the patient's body and seen evidence of a potentially serious issue..
A person of faith who shares conservative values and who says very clearly that climate change is real - and here's why we have to care about it - I ….
If we smoke, there's no magic number of cigarettes, or number of years, that we can smoke before we know we'll get lung cancer..
There has been a concerted effort to frame caring about climate change and the environment as an alternate religion - one that worships the creation ….
When I talk to my neighbor, or to someone at church who doesn't accept that the planet is changing, I know that they don't know any better. They've b….
Our carbon emissions have to eventually go to zero. We have to. Otherwise we're never going to have a stable climate and that's what our goal is for ….
I don't think there are any churches that have "Thou shalt not believe in climate change" written in their actual statement of faith..
There is no set period of time or total amount of carbon emissions that we can stay below to ensure we stay safe..
We have to reach out to churches and schools and help people understand science, and we have to build rapport between scientists and people of faith.….