Comments on: Evangelicals and Climate Change

By: Wow

Wow — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 00:36:55 +0000

Iron seeding produces algal blooms that remove carbon AND OXYGEN and kill off fish because they too need oxygen to breathe.

And iron dust isn’t free, isn’t in dust form and doesn’t appear to be cheap to transport by the millions of tons either.

By: Brainstorms

Brainstorms — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 00:18:20 +0000

Pixie dust works faster, though.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 00:11:03 +0000

In reply to Jeff Davis. Yes. I'm not a fan of that form of geoengineering. All one needs to do apparently is seed the oceans with Fe dust.

By: Jeff Davis

Jeff Davis — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 23:41:45 +0000

Climate Mitigation Engineering: possibly new approach

Hello,

I would like to know if anyone is working on using ocean plankton to mitigate Climate Change using Emiliania huxleyi? It is the single biggest source of Oxygen on Earth. Eats Carbon like there is no tomorrow, and at the rate Methane is dissociating in the Artic there may not be one for kids under 12.

Is it feasible to select and drain appropriate swamps or lakes in the Artic areas and lay pipe or cannels to bring in sea/ocean water? The latitude would of course be important. The plankton may prove to be the most cost effective way to reduce atmospheric Carbon.

To paraphrase Bill Gates, we need to consider every option.

Windsor ON CA

Thanks,
Jeff

By: Dan Ragatz

Dan Ragatz — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 18:37:39 +0000

Another evangelical writing about climate change is my uncle Dr. Howard Snyder. See, e.g., his book Salvation Means Creation Healed.

By: dean

dean — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 19:15:23 +0000

Here in West Michigan, in the greater Grand Rapids/Holland and nearby areas, there is a strong Calvinist population, sadly with rationality and decency watered down (even more than the religion alone does) with a very strong Libertarian bent. This is the region that gave us the Prince family and the mercenaries one of the sons organized for Bush’s wars. The new nominee for Education Secretary was born to the Prince family married into one of the few families less respectable, the DeVos family. (Pyramid company AmWay should come to mind.)

It’s one of the most anti-science, anti-acceptance of minorities, anti-anything modern, areas in Michigan. Hardly evangelicals, but not people with whom you’d want to associate. Good luck getting those people to consider anything about climate change as being real.

By: BBD

BBD — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 18:51:14 +0000

Southern Baptists are a big part of the problem.

By: Wow

Wow — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 17:59:28 +0000

Pfeh, baptists insist that RCC is run by Satan.

Not kidding you. Not hyperbolically, REALLY run by Satan. And not because of the kiddie fiddling, which is 100% as prevalent in the other denominations as in the RCC.

PS when it comes to how many christians there are in the USA, nobody bothers to skip over the “notreally christians”. Not evangelical, not baptist, not protestant, not catholic. All of them, when it comes to “We’re the biggest religion in the country”, it’s all one big happy family.

By: Obstreperous Applesauce

Obstreperous Applesauce — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 17:51:21 +0000

‘Evangelical’ in the US often refers to non-mainline churches or groups that put an emphasis on aggresive outreach, missionary activity, conversions and *adult baptism*. They evangelize — a lot– and talk incessantly about being saved along with a specific set of beliefs that go with this. They tend to be politically reactionary and frequently (but not always) overlap with fundamentalists. Many oppose separation of church and state.

Again this is different from main line Christanity. In fact I’ve heard some deny that main line churchs can be even be considered Christian. They are a force to be reckoned with in the US and around the world.

Wake.
Up.

By: RickA

RickA — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 17:51:18 +0000

It is an interesting advertising angle to use religion to try to motivate people to emit less CO2.

I think the Pope is on board also.

Good luck!