Christian pastors concerned about creation care will gather next week in Madison, Wisconsin for the annual Creation Care at the Crosswords conference sponsored by the Lausanne/World Evangelical Alliance Creation Care Network and the Loka Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. […]
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Katherine Hayhoe is Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor and the Political Science Endowed Chair of Public Policy and Public Law at Texas Tech University. (Wow, that’s a long title!) She is an evangelical Christian (her husband pastors an evangelical congregation […]
Religious congregations in New Orleans are doing something about the effects of climate change
Nina Lakhani, a reporter for The Guardian, introduces us to the Community Lighthouse Network, a group of New Orleans congregations, including a Black megachurch, tackling the effects of climate change in the Big Easy. Here is a taste of Lakhani’s […]
Episode 118: “Evangelicals and the Environment”
Most Americans probably think of conservative evangelicals as climate change deniers who believe global warming is a hoax. If this is you, you would not be entirely wrong. But our guest today, Neill Pogue, author of The Nature of the Religious […]
Climate change as a culture war issue
Sadly, the debate over climate change has become just another issue in our ongoing culture wars. Meanwhile, the earth is getting hotter. Here is Paul Krugman at The New York Times: Understanding climate denial used to seem easy: It was […]
What I am reading: Kyle Harper on climate and deadly germs that made (and continue to make) history, Part II
“There have been about ten thousand generations of humans so far. For all but the last three or four generations, life was short, lasting on average around thirty years. Yet this average is deceptive, because life in a world ruled […]
What I am reading: Kyle Harper on climate and deadly germs that made (and continue to make) history, Part I
As historians, we display the same love of searching for agency as any mom who enters a really messy room with trepidation yet determination—every toy box has been emptied, and the Legos strewn across the floor dare you to walk […]
The Author’s Corner with Joseph Giacomelli
Joseph Giacomelli is Assistant Professor of Environmental History at Duke Kunshan University. This interview is based on his new book, Uncertain Climes: Debating Climate Change in Gilded Age America (University of Chicago Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write […]
Choosing a Card that’s Good for the Planet
If anxiety is destiny, this old earth may just have chance
Yesterday’s passing of a climate change bill is a step in the right direction
Good news for those of us who care about the planet. Here is Robinson Meyer’s piece at The Atlantic: Climate change was born as a modern political issue in the United States Senate. On a hot June day in 1988, […]
Al Gore compares climate deniers to Uvalde, Texas police
Police officers in Uvalde, Texas waited 77 minutes before acting to save elementary school children at Robb Elementary School. Watch: On Sunday, Al Gore compared the lack of action on the part of these officers to those who deny the […]
On climate change, ‘the perfect should not become the enemy of the good”
I just got home from a three-week research trip and my lawn is out of control. But I can’t mow it because it’s nearly 100-degrees here in Pennsylvania. (Ok, I can mow it, but I don’t want to pass out […]
Climate change at Jamestown
The National Trust for Historic Preservation just placed it on a list of the country’s most endangered places. Here is Michael Ruane at The Washington Post: The dig site where archaeologist Sean Romo has just found the ancient fragment of […]
Don’t teach your kids how to ski
It doesn’t seem worth the investment. Eric Margolis explains at The New Republic: With an average of 16 feet of snowfall per year, Sapporo, Japan is one of the snowiest places on earth. But at the last Sapporo Snow Festival, […]
Choosing a Card that’s Good for the Planet
If anxiety is destiny, this old earth may just have chance
The world is on fire
The New York Times has gathered 183 climate stories from around the world. You can even type-in the name of your county to see the top climate change risk in your area. In my county of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, heat […]
How climate change is threatening the National Museum of American History
Some of the strongest critics of climate change policy are also some of the people most concerned about how our kids learn American history. Here is Chrisopher Flavelle at The New York Times: Nearly two million irreplaceable artifacts that tell […]
Our infrastructure is not equipped for climate change
On Sunday it was 112 degrees in Portland. Check out Robinson Meyer‘s sobering piece at The Atlantic. A taste: The Biden administration has been teased for trying to stuff climate change into an infrastructure frame. But this week has affirmed […]
Evangelicals seem to be coming around on climate change
In 2007, Richard Cizik, then vice-president of the National Association of Evangelicals, came under attack from some prominent evangelicals for his opposition to global warming. Jerry Falwell Sr. described evangelicals concerned with climate change as “earthism worshippers.” James Dobson called […]