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The heavens declare the glory of God the skies
proclaim the work of his hands. Psalms 191

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The greenhouse effect allows life on earth
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The last 160,000 years (from ice cores) and the
next 100 years
700
CO2 in 2100 (with business as usual)
600
Double pre-industrial CO2
500
Lowest possible CO2 stabilisation level by 2100
400
CO2 concentration (ppm)
CO2 now
300
200
100
160
120
80
40
Now

• Time (thousands of years)

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The last 160,000 years (from ice cores) and the
next 100 years
700
CO2 in 2100 (with business as usual)
600
Double pre-industrial CO2
500
Lowest possible CO2 stabilisation level by 2100
400
CO2 concentration (ppm)
CO2 now
300
10
Temperature difference from now C
200
0
10
100
160
120
40
Now
80

• Time (thousands of years)

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The Lord loves righteousness and justice Ps 335
Christian Aid
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You cause the grass to grow for the cattle, and
plants for people to use To bring forth food
from the earth, Ps 10414

• 2.5o warming in average Earth temp. puts 45-55
  million extra people at risk of hunger by 2080
• 3o - 65-75 million (or 3.3-5.5 billion),
• 3-4o 80-125 million3

Christian Aid
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O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom
you have made them all the earth is full of your
creatures. Ps 10424

• 15-37 of species committed to extinction by 2050
  (mid-range warming)5

WWF
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Polar ice sheet thickness down by 40 in 20
years.6 Polar bear birth rate already declining.
These all look to you to give them their food
in due season Ps 10427
WWF
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The trees of the Lord are watered abundantly, the
cedars of Lebanon that he planted. In them the
birds build their nests the stork has its home
in the fir trees. Ps 10416-17
WWF
10
A 2C increase in water temperature will kill a
coral reef
Yonder is the sea, great and wide, creeping
things innumerable are there, living things both
small and great. Ps 10425
Jim Cox
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What can we do?

• Operation Noah
• CEL/CTBI
• Sign the Climate Covenant
• Cut the Carbon
• Spread the word

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2. Cut the Carbon (1)

• 1. Switch to green electricity
• One phone call
• Get estimate of costs from uswitch.com
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  Operation Noah will get 7 commission to help us
  finance the campaign
• Do try and switch to one of the greenest
  suppliers e.g. Good Energy, Green Energy,
  Ecotricity

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2. Cut the Carbon (2)
2. Avoid air travel Flying is the most polluting
form of transport. One long haul trip uses up a
persons entire annual fair share of carbon
emissions. 3. Tell your MP Write to your MP, tell
them that you have signed the Climate Covenant
with Operation Noah and ask them what he or she
is doing to avert dangerous climate change.
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3. Spread the word Operation Noah has
everything you need

• Video/DVD
• Talks and power point presentation
• Sample services
• Drama sketch
• Magazine articles
• Leaflets please take some today
• www.operationnoah.org

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References

• 1 Table 2a. 'Impacts on human systems due to
  Temperature rise, precipitation change and
  increases in extreme events', page 1
  www.stabilisation2005.com/impacts/impacts_human.pd
  f
• 2 Ecosystem Loss and its Implications for
  Greenhouse Gas Concentration Stabilisation, John
  Lanchbery
• 3 Antarctic ice sheets and sea level rise, Chris
  Rapley, British Antartic Survey.
• 4 Relationship between increases in global mean
  temperature and impacts on ecosystems, food
  production, water and socio-economic systems,
  Bill Hare,
• 5 Responses of Species to Changes in Climate
  Determine Climate Protection Targets (Rick
  Leemans)
• 6 Steering committee report
• Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, Feb 1-3, 2005
  Met Office, Exeter
• 7Hadley Centre Nov 2000 update

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Who then is that faithful and wise steward?
Luke 1242
Ruth Jarman 44 (0) 845 233 5399 www.operationnoah
.org