Joseph,

We’re probably getting off track.

But in any case, the conclusions I’ve come to about this are far different than what you have concluded.

I’m late to this discussion, but find it interesting and decided to jump in.

Way back on January 3 Melody said:

[Good stewardship over the environment is a good thing.  But it’s not a “Christian” activity unless Christ is at least mentioned or given some glory as Creator of the earth.]

I disagree.  Good stewardship of God’s creation is most certainly a “Christian activity,” in fact, I believe it’s a Christian responsibility.  Shouldn’t it be Christians at the forefront of the conversation about caring responsibly for God’s creation?  To me, it is a black mark for us that we are so late to join the “let’s care for the earth” conversation.  It’s the same kind of black mark we have for being so late join the discussion about what we must do about the Aids/HIV crisis in Africa (not to hijack the thread, but to make what I think is a reasonable comparison). 

Whether or not Al Gore is a Christian, or a Baptist, he using his influence to encourage people to make responsible choices regarding the environment.  Isn’t that something all Christians should do?  (And I know about his inconsistencies, but I just noticed a log in my eye so decided it would be best to examine my own actions before calling him out on his)

Even if global warming turned out to be a bunch of bunk (which I doubt will happen), should that give us permission to live irresponsibly or abuse the resources we’ve been given to care for?  Too many Christians seem (IMO) to be arguing against global warming in order to justify careless behavior.

I live in a region with terrible air.  Many people, myself included, have developed respiratory disease, as a direct result of the air we breathe.  I’d be much healthier if I didn’t live here. 

We don’t create all the bad stuff that goes into our air.  We live in a valley and much of it blows in from northern CA and gets stuck in our valley.  But no matter who caused it, our bad air is NOT a natural phenomena.  Human beings and their activities (individual and corporate) messed up the air we breath, the air God gave us.  And there are things we human beings can do to reverse the problem.  We could whine about the fact Bay Area residents are sending their bad air to us, or we can buck up and do the hard work to fix it.  At the end of the day, if we choose the latter, we’ll be healthier in our own backyard and if global warming turns out to be real, we will have been part of preventing something grave and ominous happening to the world God created.  That is something Christians should do.

Wendi

Another thing:

Good, patriotic Americans will question those who set themselves up as authorities.  Albert Gore has not endured a fair interrogation, and he refuses to debate the facts about climate change and global warming. 

You may wonder why the US Congress has done nothing to address global warming.  Among the reasons are a number of interviews with pre-eminent scientists who have told them that fighting climate change is inevitable (because it happens all the time), and we should concern ourselves with more realistic environmental and energy challenges.  In sum, Al Gore’s anthropogenic global warming context is a near unadulterated fraud.

Don’t believe it?  Study the issue.  Or bury your head in the sand.

if al gore was the winner of this “award” i am really curious about who came in second and third in the voting…

as for global warming, one thing that seems to often go over-looked, is the possibility that the warming may ultimately be something good… imagine how the amount tillable farmland in the world (specifically in north america [canada] and eurasia) would increase as the average temperature of the earth rises a few degrees…