We-Get-It.orgThe “We Get It!” Campaign is a national effort to gather one million signatures on a simple statement by which Christians can show that they are united behind Biblical perspectives on the environment and the poor. The campaign has been endorsed by a nearly a hundred pastors, Christian leaders, policy-makers, and theologians, as well as a growing host of national and state organizations. It is conducting outreach across the country to pastors and people in the pews, African-American and Hispanic church leaders, youth, artists, home-schoolers, evangelical scientists, Congressional and state policy-makers, and other Christian leaders.
A recent Barna study of evangelicals found that only 33% consider global warming to be a major challenge. They are the most skeptical segment of the American population, and they differ most from the general public on this issue among the ten included in the poll.
The science is not settled on global warming. There is not a scientific consensus that global warming is man-made, and is likely to be catastrophic. Many qualified scientists with expertise in climatology, meteorology, and other related fields question the media-driven “conventional wisdom” on climate change. More than 400 were recently highlighted by the staff of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Hundreds of scientists and researchers have signed the Manhattan Declaration stating “human-caused climate change is not a global crisis.”
According to the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, even “full and perfect compliance” with the Kyoto Protocol on global warming would mean the average global temperature in 2050 would be only 0.2° F lower than it would be in the absence of emissions controls. But its impact on Black and Hispanic communities in the U.S. could cost minorities 1.3 million jobs in 2012.
Efforts to cut greenhouse gases hurt the poor. By making energy less affordable and accessible, mandatory emissions reductions would drive up the costs of consumer products, stifle economic growth, cost jobs, and impose especially harmful effects on the Earth's poorest people. Each of the series of increasingly expensive treaties being proposed to fight global warming would cost hundreds of billions of dollars each year, with the multiple treaties gobbling up many times more every year than the estimated one-time price of providing sanitation and clean drinking water to the nearly 2 billion poor people in the world who lack them now.
A panel of eight of the world’s most distinguished economists, including four Nobel laureates, examined various proposals for dealing with climate change by reducing carbon emissions. The expert panel, in what has come to be known as the "Copenhagen Consensus," regarded these proposals as "bad projects" and "having costs that were likely to exceed the benefits."
