Article April 16, 2007 Issue

CLIMATE CHANGE

Credible warnings call for spiritually wise responses.

BEVERLY GOLDSMITH

... and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing. — Ezekiel 34:26

PARIS —In a United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report published February 2, some 2,500 scientists from 130 nations affirmed that global warming is fact, not fiction. The consensus findings, endorsed by 113 governments, declared the problem to be 90 percent man-made, and that the earth's average temperature could rise by as much as 3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the 21st century if corrective action isn't taken now.