FIRST Tour: "A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions" by Katharine Hayhoe and Andrew Farley

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!

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Today's Wild Card authors are:

Katharine Hayhoe

and

Andrew Farley

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.***

ABOUT THE AUTHORs:

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.

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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.

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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

AND NOW...THE FIRST CHAPTER:

My opinion:


A Climate for Change is a breath of fresh air for Christians who are wondering about the whole global warming hype. I am one of those who questioned the global warming controversy but with sound and logical information Hayhoe and Farley definitely drive home what is happening to our world today. Global warming is indeed happening and by not listening to politician and celebrities, the authors make the situation clear and why the climate is changing and how it's becoming visible - especially in poorer countries.




I recieved an ARC, which is a book in it's unfinished form, and in the finished book there will be graphics that will help drive the points in the book home even further. Even without the graphics and charts this book was a wonderful resource for myself as I tried to overcome my perceptions what I thought was purely a political scam. That being said, I don't agree with everything the authors write, one such item being the fact that having large families is bad. As Christians I believe God tells us we are to accept and recieve His blessings - and children are blessings. I also realize that we can raise our children to take care of the planet as we have been entrusted by God to care for His creation.




Overall, a wonderful resource for Christians who wonder if global warming is happening and what we can do about it if it is. The authors give some very simple and easy to actions that can help in repairing our planet - such as changing the light bulbs, recycling, turning off computers at night and many others. Yes, these little things can help (more so than buying those carbon credit things, but the authors do seem to agree with that idea even if I don't) and the authors will tell you how. I do think this is a must read - for both those who already believe in global warming and those who are skeptics.