Comment

Operation Noah board members and associates respond to climate change and the news. These are personal opinions and do not necessarily reflect our official policy.

These articles cover a range of areas:

• Spiritual: the link between Christianity and climate change; our duty to protect God's earth; our relationship to the planet and to each other; the Church’s right to interfere in politics and economics.

• Political: how to build a movement that campaigns effectively on climate change; the behavioural change needed for a Zero Carbon Britain.

The Church Times (21 October 2011) recently published an article by Dr Peter Forster, the Bishop of Chester and a trustee of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, aimed at discrediting what he describes as 'global warming alarmism'. The Rt. Revd. David Atkinson wrote to Church Times in response to the article on behalf of Operation Noah. We reproduce his letter below.

'Space in the City' is a series of talks exploring our relationship with the world as a gift from God and the way in which we might respond to the challenge of the call in Micah 6:8:  “to act justly, love mercy and walk humbly” in the 21st century. The talks were hosted by  St Lawrence Church, Winchester, during May 2011.

Rev Chris. Brice, Chair of the Operation Noah Board, delivered a Justshare  lecture at St Mary le Bow in January 2011 on "The Church’s Right to Interfere in Issue of Politics and Economics”, based on Archbishop William Temple’s famous book “Christianity and Social Order”.

March 2011: Was George Monbiot right to call Osborne’s budget last week the blackest budget in living memory?

March 2011: Catholic Eco-theologian, author and gardener, Edward Echlin's theological responds to the chapter "Motivational and Behavioural Change" of zerocarbonbritain2030.

As our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Japan, the radiation leakages in Fukushima are giving the world pause for thought on the future of nuclear power.

Progress on climate change needs to be backed as a gospel imperative, says Operation Noah board member David Atkinson.

Michael S Northcott, a member of Operation Noahs's Board, and a Professor of ethics in the University of Edinburgh reflects on 2010.

Read Ann Pettifor's article as she explains 'cutting the diamond' on the issue of climate change