Churches "must" lead the way on reducing carbon emissions

Anglican Communion News Service: Churches must lead the way on reducing carbon emissions.

“We were at point where it seemed the government had finally got the message and was implementing policies to reduce emissions, and suddenly oil prices shot up, and suddenly the government caved in over taxes on petrol.” Climate sceptics add to the lack of action, he said, capitalising on the complexity of climate change research that necessarily produced a variety of predictions.

Media reporting was also a barrier, with the adversarial style of reporting giving as much column space to the sceptics as the mainstream science, which Revd James says is overwhelmingly united on the fact of global warming. The question is just how long we have and how bad it will be, and according to the data he presented, we have about twenty to forty years of “business as usual” before the “tipping point is reached” and the global temperature soars to literally unbearable levels.