A Climate for Change
November 9th, 2009. Filed under: Monday's Musings, WILD Cards.
It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old…or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book!
You never know when I might play a wild card on you!
and the book:
A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions
FaithWords (October 29, 2009)
***Special thanks to Valerie M. Russo of the Hachette Book Group for sending me a review copy.***
Katharine Hayhoe is a professor in the Department of Geosciences at Texas Tech University and CEO of ATMOS Research, a scientific consulting company. She contributed her research to and served as Expert Reviewer for the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Katharine’s work has been presented before the U.S. Congress, highlighted by state and federal agencies, and featured in over 200 newspapers and media outlets around the world.
Visit the author’s website.
Andrew Farley is the lead teaching pastor of Ecclesia (www.EcclesiaOnline.com) and co-hosts Real Life in Christ, a 30-minute program that airs every week on ABC-TV in the West Texas area. Andrew served as a professor at the University of Notre Dame for five years and is now a tenured professor at Texas Tech University. Andrew has coauthored three textbooks and more than a dozen journal articles. He is also the author of The Naked Gospel: The Truth You May Never Hear in Church.
Visit the author’s website.
Product Details:
List Price: $22.99
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: FaithWords (October 29, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0446549568
ISBN-13: 978-0446549561
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
ISLAND BREEZES
This book still hasn’t convinced me. I’m really trying to make it through to the end. My review copy didn’t have all the grafts, figures and tables that the author keeps mentioning. I think having those available will make it easier for the reader.
If you’re trying to convince me of the validity of the global warming theory, you shouldn’t start off telling me that from 1998 to 2008 shows that the world actually cooled, but it doesn’t count. Excuse me? It doesn’t count because it hasn’t been happening long enough? Maybe that’s because we haven’t been that far past 2008 to have any more data than that.
I really would like to see his “hockey stick” diagram. It apparently shows that we had an Ice Age, Medieval Warming and then the Little Ice Age. Now more warming, and what comes next according to this diagram? Maybe it’s the cooling again?
In chapter 4, the ostrich is referenced as an example of what Christians should not do when confronted with an issue that we prefer would just go away. Is he referring to the myth about the ostrich sticking it’s head into the sand when danger is present? If he doesn’t even research this, how much research is really behind his global warming theory?
He lists many sources for his research, including Al Gore, who made a lot of money from his book and movie. It didn’t take Britain long to debunk Al Gore’s theory. Now, even kids have Gore figured out.
I’m not saying that we shouldn’t make an effort to protect our environment. I drive one of the first hybrids to come out. I have replaced my bulbs with CFLs. I recycle and have tried to drastically reduce my use of plastics and disposables. That does not mean I’m convinced that the global warming theory is more than a theory. It means that as a Christian, I choose to take care of all that with which I’ve been blessed by my Creator. It does not mean that I’ll ever be in favor of the “cap and tax” bill which will drive us even deeper into a depression.
AND NOW…THE FIRST CHAPTER:
November 9th, 2009 at 21:05
Great review! You can view mine if interested at: http://quivermom.blogspot.com/2009/11/first-tour-climate-for-change-global.html
I also thought the graphs and other illustrations would have been a big help in reading this book.
Sarah – fellow FIRST blogger.
November 10th, 2009 at 12:39
Thanks for dropping by. I’ll be over at your place to read your review in a few minutes.