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Climate Science Glossary
Global warming: a battle for evangelical Christian hearts and minds
Posted on 2 October 2014 by dana1981
The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation is a conservative evangelical Christian public policy group that promotes a free-market approach to protecting the environment. The organization recently published a list of ten reasons it opposes policies to reduce carbon pollution and slow global warming, purportedly to protect the poor. As the first point on the list illustrates, the group essentially believes that the Earth’s climate will be able to correct any damage done by humans.
1. As the product of infinitely wise design, omnipotent creation, and faithful sustaining (Genesis 1:1–31; 8:21–22), Earth is robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting.
The group includes climate scientist Roy Spencer and professor of geography David Legates. Spencer’s research is among the 2–3% of peer-reviewed climate papers disputing that humans are the main cause of global warming. He has often argued that climate policies will harm the poor, and has not been shy in making political and free market statements, having gone as far as to make comments about “global warming Nazis.” Legates is known
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Cornwall Alliance
Evangelical anti-environmental front group
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Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation
Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation
Background
The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, formerly the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance (ISA) is an evangelical Christian group founded in 2006 by Calvin Beisner that claims environmentalism is “one of the greatest threats to society and the church today.”
The Cornwall Alliance’s founder, Calvin Beisner, has been described as “the most influential evangelical anti-environmentalist in the United States.” Calvin Beisner and the Cornwall Alliance believe that “Earth and its ecosystems – created by God’s intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence – are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting, admirably suited for human flourishing, and displaying His glory. Earth’s climate system is no exception.”
The Cornwall Alliance’s founding documents include the “Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming” which states “There is no convincing scientific evidence that human contribution to greenhouse gases is causing dangerous global warming.”
The Interfaith Stewardship Alliance (ISA) was formed in November 2005 when they first adopted the Cornwall Decla