The Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina (EDUSC) will hold its annual waste of time convention and has selected Climate Change (formerly known as "Global Warming") as its focus, as described by Bishop Waldo in the following message,
"Breakout speakers for Leadership Day announced"
"A recent report from the global scientific authority on climate change warned us that the catastrophic effects of climate change could become our reality as early as 2030.
According to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the planet will reach the threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels by 2030. For the world at large, this heightens the risk of extreme drought, wildfires, flood, and food shortages for hundreds of millions of people.
Reversing centuries worth of damage to our world seems like a task entirely too large to take on. Global net emissions of carbon dioxide would need to lessen by nearly 50% and reach "net zero" in order to maintain a suitable climate. Because climate change seems like such an abstract thought, it is difficult to believe these changes are effecting us locally; it is even more difficult to know how we can even begin to make a difference.
With less than three weeks left until Leadership Day, we are proud to announce our breakout speakers, those who will offer facts and figures on climate change that effect our own local worlds.
Join us as Dr. James McClintock offers a riveting presentation on science and our stewardship of creation. As a fellow Episcopalian, he has served as an Endowed University Professor of Polar and Marine Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham since 1987. McClintock has led/co-directed more than a dozen scientific expeditions with the United States Antarctic Program (USAP). Together, he and his research collaborators have become the world's authorities on Antarctic marine chemical ecology. He is the author of A Naturalist Goes Fishing and Lost in Antarctica – Adventures in a Disappearing Land.
Listed below are our speakers and a small bio detailing their life's work:• Rebecca McKinney: Food Systems and Sustainability/ResiliencySustainability Specialist, Bon Secours Health Systems, Greenville; Director, Sustainable Agriculture Program, Greenville Technical College; Founder, SC Organization for Organic LivingRebecca spends her time growing, raising, preserving and preparing food, and encouraging others to do the same. She is the executive director for SCOOL (South Carolina Organization for Organic Living), the academic program director for the Sustainable Agriculture Certificate Program at Greenville Tech, and Sustainability Specialist for Bon Secours St. Francis Health System.
• Lori Ziolkowski: Climate Change and FloodingAsst. Professor, School of Earth, Ocean and Environment, University of South CarolinaLori is a Canadian who turned her love of the outdoors into a career in science. From her first fieldwork experience as a high school student in northern Canada's boreal forest sampling microbial material on Arctic glaciers, today, she is passionate about understanding what controls the limits of life and carbon recycling on Earth. She has a special focus on biogeochemistry, geochemistry, and climate change. She is the first non-European to be awarded the Baillet LaTour/International Polar Foundation Fellowship, which is given to one scientist every two years.
• Shelley Robbins: Energy and AdvocacyEnergy and State Policy Director, Upstate ForeverShelley holds a degree in economics from Duke University, where she spent time at the Duke Marine Lab, and an MBA from Southwestern Oklahoma State University. Her varied experience includes working with lemurs at the Duke Primate Center, regulating water and wastewater utilities for the Florida Public Service Commission, advocating for the protection of the Florida coast and outer continental shelf in Governor Lawton Chiles' Environmental Policy Unit, and facilitating technology transfer at the Oklahoma Department of Commerce. She has been with Upstate Forever since 2007 and has lived in Spartanburg since 1998. She covers energy, transportation, and solid waste and recycling issues.
• Rob Brown: Land Use and ConservationRector, St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, SpartanburgRob serves as rector of Saint Matthew's Episcopal Church in Spartanburg. Prior to seminary he worked as a legislative assistant and aide to Congresswoman Liz Patterson in Washington DC and in Spartanburg. He has a special interest in helping Christians serve as Stewards of God's Creation, and is currently doing doctoral work at Sewanee to sharpen that focus.
• John Tynan, Water QualityConservation Voters of South CarolinaPrior to joining CVSC, John oversaw the customer service, marketing, and government relations sections of Central Arkansas Water. He has also served as the Deputy Director of Upstate Forever and Commissioner of Public Works for the City of Greenville. John holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Furman University and a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University. He is also a 2010 Enviropreneur Fellow from the Property and Environment Research Center.
Join us on November 2 for Leadership Day for a discussion on faith and conservation. To register for this event, please click here.
There is a $50 registration fee that includes dinner.Registration will begin at 1:00pm. Dr. James McClintock will give his speech shortly after at 1:30pm. Breakout discussions with our local environmental leaders with take place from 2:30 – 3:15pm and 3:45 – 4:30pm. We will end with our closing plenary and Evening Prayer at 5:00pm. Dinner will begin at 6:30pm."
Leadership Day? Why would we need that? This
past Sunday we learned all that we need to know about leadership from the Lord himself.
"But it is not so among you; but whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all."
I am afraid that EDUSC in its mistaken attempt to save the Earth has forgotten that there is only one way that mankind can be saved, and that is by obeying and serving the Lord,
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew 28:19-20
Of course, obedience to the Lord's word is not something that revisionist bishops and priests take seriously, and that is why they are so easily led astray by the ever changing winds of the spirit of the age.
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First, I clicked on the link to see if it was really Bishop Waldo who penned this grammatical howler: "it is difficult to believe these changes are effecting us locally." It was.
ReplyDeleteThe first speaker sounds well-credentialed, but I know of other people just as impressive who think the effect of CO2 on the climate is wildly overstated by the IPCC executive (political) summaries. The others sound like the usual new religious doctrines coming out of Duke and Sewanee. If everybody starts growing "organic" veggies in their back yards, it won't make a hoot of difference to global temperatures. If CO2 were really the culprit, the USA would be currently saving the world because of natural gas produced by fracking.
Their time would be much better spent reading, marking, and inwardly digesting the Holy Scriptures, and then conforming their own lives to Christ's commandments and teaching them to others.
A lot less CO2, and less hot air would be generated if EDUSC were to cancel the entire convention.
ReplyDeleteAnd as KJS would say, "Bovine emissions".
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