{"id":8384,"date":"2019-02-06T11:15:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T10:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8384"},"modified":"2019-02-06T11:15:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T10:15:51","slug":"something-clicked-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8384","title":{"rendered":"Has something clicked over climate change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Hockey-stock-21st-century.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Hockey-stock-21st-century-300x225.png\" alt=\"Hockey stock - 21st century\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Hockey-stock-21st-century-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Hockey-stock-21st-century.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Has something clicked over climate change?\u00a0 Over the last year I&#8217;ve seen a big change in levels of concern over those I know concerning climate change.\u00a0 My church has put protecting the planet if not at the heart of its new five year strategy then as an important plank.\u00a0 This in itself is quite a major change.\u00a0 In addition most weeks the environment is prayed for and increasingly mentioned in sermons.\u00a0 We now have an ethical challenge (environmental) in our news sheet every month.\u00a0 Its not just at church that concern seems to be rising.\u00a0 My children are increasingly asking how they can cut their emissions.\u00a0 They may not be ready to give up flying yet, but one has gone to Berlin\/Amsterdam by train this week and two are now vegetarian.<\/p>\n<p>What has brought this change about?\u00a0 In my view it was last summer&#8217;s heat wave.\u00a0 As one comedian put it one the BBC Radio 4 comedy &#8220;The News Quiz&#8221; last week.\u00a0 &#8220;You can tell climate change is real since I got a tan in Edinburgh last summer&#8221;.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve always thought people in the West would only take the issue seriously once the impacts could be seen close to home.\u00a0 This does seem to be the case now.\u00a0 Crazy weather is now commonplace and almost expected.\u00a0 Australia has just had the most amazing drought and record temperatures of almost 50 degrees C followed by huge floods in Queensland over the last few days.\u00a0 Obviously people have to move from concern to action, but concern is the first step and has to be encouraging.\u00a0 Has something clicked over climate change?\u00a0 It looks like it to me.<\/p>\n<p>Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has something clicked over climate change?\u00a0 Over the last year I&#8217;ve seen a big change in levels of concern over those I know concerning climate change.\u00a0 My church has put protecting the planet if not at the heart of its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8384\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,1],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-8384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-faith","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Has something clicked over climate change? 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