Climate ‘crisis’? Really?

Simon Marsh  |  Features  |  earth watch
Date posted:  1 Oct 2020
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Climate ‘crisis’? Really?

The impact of climate change is often felt first by the poorest | photo: iStock

Recently the Environment Minister for Northern Ireland, Edwin Poots, got into a spot of bother for saying publicly that his department didn’t believe there is a climate crisis.

He later retracted his words and his chief civil servant had to apologise for giving the minister a misleading briefing. He really does think there’s a climate crisis, a view also shared by governments and many local councils across the country who have declared a ‘climate emergency’. So that’s all right then.

But many people, Christians included, genuinely wonder whether there really is a climate crisis. Is it just a case of scaremongering by radical greenies, or of virtue-signalling by politicians?

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