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a day ago
2 min

Weather/Climate in Central Virginia

One of the difficulties to do with communicating climate change is that the topic often seems to be physically remote. We hear about pola...

Ian Sutton

6 days ago
4 min

The Church's Algorithm

In a recent post Ugo Bardi suggested that we live in a time when central governments are losing control of the narrative. Power is shifti...

Ian Sutton

Jan 6
4 min

2021: The Church as a Leader

To say the least, the year 2020 has had its challenges. More than a million people have lost their lives to the COVID-19 disease which is...

Ian Sutton

Jan 5
2 min

Climate Change in Central Virginia

News about climate change tends to be about extreme events such as massive wildfires, hurricane frequency and intensity, and loss of cora...

Conservative Commentator, Nature and a Benevolent God

Ian Sutton

Jan 4
2 min

Conservative Commentator, Nature and a Benevolent God

The year 2020 has provided more than its share of bad news. But for those of us concerned with climate change there were some bright spot...

Ian Sutton

Dec 21, 2020
2 min

M1 and the Right Thing To Do

This blog is to do with how people of faith can respond to the climate change dilemmas that we face. Yet climate change is itself part of...

Ian Sutton

Dec 17, 2020
3 min

Solar in Virginia: What’s Not To Like?

A recent post Solar: Not in my Backyard discussed the beginnings of what will be an on-going controversy in states such as Virginia. The ...

Ian Sutton

Dec 14, 2020
2 min

Gradual Warming in Virginia

Climate change is often described in apocalyptic terms: wild fires in the west, massive flooding in Texas, the loss of most of the Great ...

Ian Sutton

Dec 14, 2020
1 min

Solar: Not in my Backyard

We all advocate for solar panels — sometimes. Following is an extract from today’s Richmond Times-Dispatch. A company is planning to inst...

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Ian Sutton

Dec 7, 2020
2 min

Collapse Discussion Going Mainstream

Letter in the Guardian newspaper raises the concern of societal collapse.

Ian Sutton

Oct 17, 2020
1 min

Record Temperatures

This newspaper clipping from October 15, 2020 says that September 2020 was the hottest of the industrial era. I show this, not because th...

Ian Sutton

Oct 4, 2020
3 min

The Leadership Debate

Our secular institutions are incapable of leading us through the predicaments that we face. This is an opportunity for the church to lead.

A New Normal: Theological Paradigm Shift

Ian Sutton

Aug 26, 2020
2 min

A New Normal: Theological Paradigm Shift

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a sudden and dramatic shift in fossil fuel use. The manner in which this happened can provide guidance for

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Ian Sutton

Aug 19, 2020
2 min

Gin Lane and Social Media

John Wesley (1703-1791 ) A regrettable feature of today’s world is that we are increasingly polarized. It’s not usually a matter of ideol...

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Ian Sutton

Oct 10, 2019
2 min

Shakespeare and BP

Oil companies are often blamed for our ecological woes. But we are all responsible because we all consume the oil companies’ products.

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