Letters

Climate change

A.R. (Tony) Grieve

Contents - Dec 2009 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Benedict XVI: When God entered human history - Pope Benedict XVI Ut Unum Sint: Benedict XVI eases way for Anglicans wishing to 'cross the Tiber' - Michael Gilchrist News: The Church Around the World Marriage: A Biblical defence of marriage: Africans take the lead - Babette Francis Victoria: Abortion evil: pro-life forces need to be united - John Morrissey Episcopacy: Church leadership responsibilities: an American case study - Phil Lawler Events: Melbourne - The Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite (1962 Missal) How to get Vatican II back on track: a bishop's prescription - Bishop R. Walker Nickless (Sioux City, Iowa) Foundations of Faith: The Eucharist: what the Old and New Testaments tell us - Br Barry Coldrey Vatican II: Yves Congar, Vatican II, ecumenism: finding the right balance - Andrew Kania Saints: Saint Damien of Molokai: Robert Louis Stevenson's prediction fulfilled Letters: New religion - Peter Donald Letters: Stewardship - Peter Finlayson Letters: Greens and Church - Kevin Cains Letters: Climate change - A.R. (Tony) Grieve Letters: Lost opportunity - Maureen Federico Letters: Saint Damien of Molokai - Arnold Jago Letters: Women priests - Ken Bayliss Letters: Complementarity - Kathleen Wood Books: 111 QUESTIONS ON ISLAM: Samir Khalil Samir SJ on Islam and the West - Michael E Daniel (reviewer) Books: THE MASS AND THE SAINTS, by Thomas Crean OP - Br Barry Coldrey (reviewer) Books: IMAGES OF HOPE, EUROPE TODAY AND TOMORROW, by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger - Br Barry Coldrey (reviewer) Books: This month's selection from AD Books Reflection: The sacrament of Christian marriage: a nuptial Mass homily - Fr Glen Tattersall

Now is it science?
Or is it a religion?
Is it a bit like evolution?
Missing links and cows a-belchin'
Heaven knows what we're believin'.

Well where are the facts?
And who are the sceptics?
Are their minds quite like septics?
Two thousand furious shovels and picks
Dig dirt up on carbon and get big ticks.

What can we be really sure of?
That the culprit truly is carbon?
Didn't an ice age have more concentration?
Scared-silly school kids around the nation
Most logic lost: carbon pollution reduction.

Can we think outside the square?
Just what could be warming the sea?
The effect of a sea-floor volcano e.g.?
Scientists could well be looking to see
Lava spewing monsters in an ocean or three.

A.R. (TONY) GRIEVE
Lilydale, Vic

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 22 No 11 (December 2009 - January 2010), p. 14