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RESOLUTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION - Community Christian Church, Tempe, Arizona
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RESOLUTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION
Arizona Regional Assembly
October 22 & 23, 2010
Background: This resolution is based on the Sense-of-The-Assembly Statement on
Global Climate Change (No.
0921) which was adopted by the General...
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RESOLUTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION
Arizona Regional Assembly
October 22 & 23, 2010
Background: This resolution is based on the Sense-of-The-Assembly Statement on
Global Climate Change (No.
0921) which was adopted by the General Assembly of the
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada, meeting in
Indianapolis, Indiana July 29, 2009-August 2, 2009.
The Statement was informed by
the set of principles developed by the National Council of Churches in 2008 which
outline those elements we need to address if we are to mitigate the worst-case
scenarios of global climate change.
Beginning in early February 2007 and nearly monthly since, the UN’s Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change, representing 95% consensus among 2,500 scientists, has
issued sobering reports, with recommendations that the burning of fossil fuels and other
human activities are driving climate change.
With the near unanimity among scientists
about the causes of worldwide climate change, it
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