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Bishop of Blackburn: help halt climate change
10:40am Thursday 24th December 2009
CHRSTIANS in East Lancashire are being warned that they must do their bit to halt climate change, or 'sign a death warrant' for vulnerable people.
The area's leading Church of England figure the Rt Rev Nicholas Reade, will sound the warning in his Christmas Day address at Blackburn Cathedral tomorrow.
Speaking in the aftermath of international climate change talks in Copenhagen and the devastating floods in Cumbria, the Bishop will call on Christians to ‘shrink their carbon footprint’.
The Bishop, who leads the Blackburn Diocese which covers the whole of East Lancashire, will say: “We must listen and respond to research about melting glaciers, expanding deserts and imperilled marine life, each of which radically affects the lives of our international neighbours.
“If we continue to ignore the warnings, and live selfishly outside the interdependence of God’s creation, we will be among those signing a death warrant for millions of the world’s most vulnerable people. Homes, food, livelihoods and communities are all coming under threat as the weather changes.
“Responsibility for shrinking our carbon footprint is part of any Christian’s practical response to God’s creative love.”
Recent floods in Cumbria showed how lives can be devastated by the weather, the Bishop will say.
The Bishop will add: “Many of the victims in Cumbria were blessed by people willing to ‘dirty their hands’ on their behalf; in heroic acts of rescue, helping to clear out homes deluged and fouled by water, or taking refreshments round the streets 24 hours a day.
“Christian people with dirty hands - and other men and women of good will - were all sharing God’s love among the frightened and the overwhelmed; sent by God to be a neighbour, as God sent his son into our human condition, to live for us and to die for us.”
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jcb, darwen says...
12:11pm Thu 24 Dec 09
A Darener, Darwen says...
2:11pm Thu 24 Dec 09
Well guess what? He's not. These occurrances are just natural events, nothing to do with mans "sins" or even man himself. They are just the cyclic periods of climatic change that have happened continuously since the earth formed. Ice ages have come and gone, heating of the earth has come and gone, meteor collisions have come and gone and will contniue to come and go until the end of the earth. Man is but an insignificant blip on all this, having absolutely no control over any of natures ways. It just boils down to greedy egotistical polititians jumping on the biggest bandwagon ever. Purely for their own ends. Whilst trying to make themselves a bit of money in the meantime.
Izanears, Nelson says...
3:04pm Thu 24 Dec 09
RAyzer, BURNLEY says...
3:30pm Thu 24 Dec 09
tonygreaves, Colne says...
3:36pm Thu 24 Dec 09
Good for the Bishop.
Tony Greaves
A Darener, Darwen says...
3:53pm Thu 24 Dec 09
tonygreaves wrote:Another fish caught in the net.
Five ridiculous comments from five very ignorant and misguided people. Good for the Bishop. Tony Greaves
A Darener, Darwen says...
4:19pm Thu 24 Dec 09
If so you have just re-enforced my point about politicians and bandwagons.
Tony Greaves, Baron Greaves
Anthony Robert Greaves, Baron Greaves (born 27 July 1942) is a UK politician. He is a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords.
Greaves was born in Bradford, and went to Hertford College, Oxford after schooling at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, before moving to the North West. He was a member of the Lancashire County Council for 25 years and a local councillor on Colne and Pendle Borough Councils.
His politics are generally considered to be left wing.
He was made a life peer as Baron Greaves, of Pendle in the County of Lancashire in 2000.
jcb, darwen says...
4:24pm Thu 24 Dec 09
Lifeinthemix, Accrington says...
5:02pm Thu 24 Dec 09
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Google Lord Monckton your Golden Dawnishness....
Merry Christmas to one and all from lifeinthemix
Tosh67, Blackburn says...
5:35pm Thu 24 Dec 09
RAyzer, BURNLEY says...
8:46pm Thu 24 Dec 09
tonygreaves wrote:what about the other MILLIONS of "missguided?"people,
Five ridiculous comments from five very ignorant and misguided people.
Good for the Bishop.
Tony Greaves
and the scientists...i think youl find its you thats gullable....this governments just opened another coal fired power station...hypocrites
,they love mugs like you...
Tosh67, Blackburn says...
10:42pm Thu 24 Dec 09
RAyzer wrote:unfortunately these lunatics and a lot of others like this pillock have the vote also RAyzer. sad innit
tonygreaves wrote: Five ridiculous comments from five very ignorant and misguided people. Good for the Bishop. Tony Greaveswhat about the other MILLIONS of "missguided?"people, and the scientists...i think youl find its you thats gullable....this governments just opened another coal fired power station...hypocrites ,they love mugs like you...
Noiticer, Blackburn says...
10:53pm Thu 24 Dec 09
Move from his mansion in Salesbury which must be too large for his real needs and locate to smaller premises as near to the Cathedral as possible thus saving on his use of gas, electricity and petrol.
Whilst I agree that we all reduce our carbon footprint the Bishop must address his main critisisms primarily to the richer members of his flock who disproportionately use far more carbon than the rest of us. When I see the politicians and royal family travelling by public transport as often as possible and not using their Rolls, Jags, 4x4's, and private jets I will take exhortations seriously.
pip-pip, says...
2:02am Fri 25 Dec 09
As for Greaves, "Five ridiculous comments from five very ignorant and misguided people." if that's the best you can come up with then your argument is lost. Read Christopher Booker about the closing of the Corus steel plant by Tata and see how much Tata is making from carbon trading as a result. Not forgetting the business intrests of the chairman of the IPCC. Lot of people making a lot of money from a lot of gullible people.
robinjevansbnp, darwen says...
3:14am Fri 25 Dec 09
can you e mail me with the stuff re the chairman of the IPCC please.
My e mail on fb profile or as above @googlemail.com
Thankyou.
PS. merry christmas.
pip-pip, says...
10:50am Fri 25 Dec 09
robinjevansbnp wrote:check out Dai++ly / Sun==ay Tel""g*ph. Search Comment for Christopher Booker. Will send actual link direct after xmas pudd has settled.
pip pip...
can you e mail me with the stuff re the chairman of the IPCC please.
My e mail on fb profile or as above @googlemail.com
Thankyou.
PS. merry christmas.
Happy Christmas toall our readers!
Lifeinthemix, Accrington says...
1:44pm Fri 25 Dec 09
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Full story :
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http://www.lifeinthe
mixtalk.com/?p=3103
bwithd, bwithd says...
2:08pm Fri 25 Dec 09
god bless...and please don't have nightmares, cos
everythings gonna be alright
bwithd, bwithd says...
2:44pm Fri 25 Dec 09
Tosh67, Blackburn says...
10:40pm Sat 26 Dec 09
Tosh67, Blackburn says...
10:40pm Sat 26 Dec 09
Davidoff, n/a says...
11:35pm Sun 27 Dec 09
Climate change is natural. But now everyone has fallen for the hysteria hook line and sinker. You cannot halt something that is natural - er, 'God's Will' - and you cannot halt or even stop a shifting weather pattern that is constantly changing around us and has been for a while now. Not unless you believe in 'miracles'.
The gullible are those who have fallen for this global ruse. As for all this talk about 'Revelations'. Look up what Armageddon actually means, for it means far from the end of the world!
It's blasted ridiculous you are looked at like some criminal in Sainsburys if you ask for a plastic bag and haven't brought one of the nice little money spinners they sell so you can 'recycle' it over and over again. Then are charged in Smiths a 'plastic bag tax' of 1p. Only 1p, but they'll be raking it in.
I wonder how many who believe in this hype actually know how dangerous those low energy light bulbs are you probably have right now in your home. They are full of a deadly poison called mercury, they can't be disposed of easily. Add to that they are slowly making you blind because of the low light they emit because it's on a far lower wavelength on the light spectrum than the old tungstan filaments which produced bright light. Strange, then, how tungstan is now regarded as a dangerous light source when it's in fact the opposite, the low energy bulbs are far more dangerous for at least two reasons. One you get poisoned if they break and two you go blind slowly. Research undertaken by the RNIB has proved it does. So, you are all killing yourselves off anyway by believing in what is possibly the biggest lie ever told.
Besides which it's a total waste of an exercise if countries like China churn out more toxins into the air than we probably do in one year in a few months. Just another excuse to squeeze more money out of us. Maybe God could fix it so Labour are chucked out at the next election. Because that WOULD be something worthwhile rather than preaching to us all about 'how to save the planet'. There's been more misery wrought upon everyone in this country by Labour than any climate change ever would.
If you want to truly save the world. Get on with each other.
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Dogsbolloxs, Padiham says...
10:44am Thu 24 Dec 09