July 30, 2006
Evangelicals Question Assumptions About Global Warming
by Staff Writer
Religion News Service
A network of more than 100 evangelical theologians and scientists has questioned concerns voiced by fellow evangelicals earlier this year about global warming.
The group, the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance, released a 24-page document this week titled "A Call to Truth, Prudence and Protection of the Poor: An Evangelical Response to Global Warming" that says dire assumptions that global warming is going to be catastrophic and that human emissions of carbon dioxide are a primary cause for climate change are "false, probably false or exaggerated."
The latest statement continues the back-and-forth declarations of different evangelical leaders about an appropriate response to environmental issues.
In February the Evangelical Climate Initiative issued a document called "Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action," in which more than 80 signatories -- including best-selling author Rick Warren and Pentecostal leader Jack Hayford -- warned of millions of potential deaths from climate change and sought reductions in carbon dioxide emissions.
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