A Climate for Change Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions

by Hayhoe, Katharine; Farley, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780446549561
• ISBN10: 0446549568
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-29
• Publisher: FaithWords

Summary

Most Christian lifestyle or environmental books focus on how to live in a sustainable and conservational manner. A CLIMATE FOR CHANGE showswhyChristians should be living that way. Drawing on the two authors' experiences, one as an internationally recognized, Nobel Prize winning climate scientist and the other as an evangelical leader of a growing church, this book explains the science underlying global warming, the impact human activities have on it, and how our Christian faith should play a significant role in guiding our opinions and actions on this important issue.

Author Biography

Katharine Hayhoe is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Geosciences at Texas Tech University and CEO of ATMOS Research, a scientific consulting company providing climate change and impact analyses to city, state, provincial, and federal agencies. Her studies have been presented before the U.S. Congress and highlighted by state and federal agencies in support of actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

Andrew Farley is pastor of Lubbock Bible Church. He served as a professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Notre Dame for five years and is now a tenured professor at Texas Tech University. In addition to more than a dozen journal articles, Andrew has also authored a book and co-authored two textbooks, two workbooks, and two multimedia publications with McGraw-Hill.