- Increasing CO2 levels from fossil fuels are causing global warming through the greenhouse effect. Paul Tillich prophesied in 1962 about the risks of "man-made floods", which are now occurring. Solutions proposed include more advanced nuclear fission reactors, a plant-rich diet to reduce agriculture emissions, and a carbon fee & dividend system.

1. Climate, Carbon, & ”Ground of All Being”
Paul H. Carr

2. OUTLINE
• Increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) levels from fossil
fuel burning are warming our Earth via the
Greenhouse Effect in our atmosphere.
• What climate change is doing to us:
-Paul Tillich’s 1962 Prophesy,
“We have no guarantee against man-made floods.”
• How to COOL OUR EARTH AGAIN.

3. This global temperature chart is updated at Columbia University.
Data is based on GISTEMP analysis (mostly NOAA data sources) as described by Hansen et al.
2016 & 2015
Warmest years
On Record
“CO2 warming
should emerge
from the noise of
natural variability
(1981)” Hansen
From 1880 to 1981, our Earth warmed only 0.4 deg C
In the last 38 years since 1981, Earth warmed by 0.8 deg C.

4. Verification of Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate Svante Arrhenius 1900 prediction.
A logarithmic increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) (blue) will raise the
temperature (green) via the Greenhouse Effect.
Carbon dioxide levels started increasing in 1800, the beginning of the industrial era.

5. Greenhouse gases, like Carbon Dioxide CO2 in our
Earth’s atmosphere, are trapping more heat.

6. Increasing CO2 gas density in our atmospheric blanket is warming our
planet via the Greenhouse effect.
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WHAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS DOING TO US.
“The earth and its poor cry out, and we must listen” Pope Francis
• Rising sea levels from thermal expansion and
melting mountain glaciers, Greenland, & Antarctica.
• Weather extremes are increasing:
-Wet areas are becoming wetter: Floods & Snow.
Atmosphere holds more water vapor at higher
temps.
-Dry areas, drier: Expanded Deserts, Droughts &
Wildfires.
• Climate Refugees (”CLIMmigration”) from droughts &
wildfires.

8. PAUL TILLICH:
CLIMATE PROPHECY versus PROFIT
2016 AAR Paper by Paul H. Carr
Paul Tillich’s 1962 sermon preached in
the Harvard Memorial Church, “Man and
Earth,” was prophetic. He said, “ We
have no guarantee against man-made
floods….”
Floods are increasing. Ice is melting
raising sea levels.

9. Miami Beach is a flood zone during King High Tides.

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The rate of sea
level increase
correlates with
the blue line of
the CO2
increase.
Sea level rise is due to
thermal expansion (50%)
and the melting of ice (50%)
SEA LEVELS ARE RISING
4 TIMES FASTER THAN
IN 1870.
BY 2100, COULD RISE
4 TO 18 FEET.

11. 5 Meters (18 Feet) Sea Level Rise
Trump’s Mar de Largo

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2017 Hurricane
Harvey, Texas, set
a new US record
of 52 inches for
rainfall from a
single storm.
2017 Hurricane
Irma set net
record: 3 days as
a Category 5
Hurricane.

13. T
24 Aug 2005. Tropical
Storm Approaches
Southern Florida.
28 Aug 2005. Katrina,
Category 5 Hurricane,
gained energetic winds of
175 mph due to the
record high temperatures
of the Gulf of Mexico.
28 Aug 2005. Katrina,
Category 5, 175 mph
winds. Absorbed energy
from the record high
temperatures of the
Gulf of Mexico.
29 Aug 2005. Katrina
causes $100Bs damage to
New Orleans, LA
KATRINA: Tropical Storm to Hurricane
Converting thermal energy of ocean to kinetic energy of wind

14. 2018 HURRICANE MICHAEL’S WIND DAMAGE
This elevated house in Mexico Beach, Fla., came through
Hurricane Michael almost unscathed.
Credit Johnny Milano for The New York Times

15. A wise rich man with foresight had the house, built of steel reinforced
concrete elevated on tall pilings to allow a storm surge to pass
underneath with little damage. The house, whose assessed value was
$400,000, exceeded the building code.
Johnny Milano for The New York Times
Pope Francis in his encyclical Laudato Si, On Care for our Common
Home” noted that the poor suffer the most from in the increasing
weather extremes of climate change.

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Three Fold
Increase in
Wildfires since
1970
Fort McMurray
Wildfire: 80,000
Evacuated Over
Out-of-Control
Blaze, May 2016.
Nature ”crying
out” to destroy the
Canadian oil sands
mining?
Environmental
Justice?
Droughts increase wildfires.
Warmer winters no longer kill off the Western
Pine beetle, leaving more dead trees as
flammable timber.

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2018 California Wildfires have burned 3 times more acres than the 5 year average and also
2017
CLIMATE INJUSTICE because California leads the US in reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

18. MAKE
EARTH
COOL
AGAIN

19. We have 12 years
to limit climate
change
catastrophe,
warns the UN.
Urgent changes
needed to cut risk
of extreme heat,
drought, floods
and poverty, says
IPCC (8 Oct 2018)

20. Preventing 2.7 F (1.5 C) degrees of warming
IPCC report, authored by 90 scientists from 40 countries.
---Greenhouse pollution must be reduced by 45
percent from 2010 levels by 2030, and 100
percent by 2050.
--By 2050, use of coal as an electricity source must
drop from nearly 40 percent today to between 1
and 7 percent.
“This report makes it clear: There is no way to
mitigate climate change without getting rid of
coal,” said Drew Shindell, a climate scientist at
Duke University and an author of the report.

21. PROBLEM: IN the US by
2040,
NATURAL GAS & COAL
COULD BE THE LARGEST
SOURCES OF ELECTRICITY.
SOLUTION:
NEXT GENERATION
NUCLEAR REACTORS
HAVE THE BEST
POTENTIAL to REDUCE
CARBON EMISSIONS 24/7
Figure from “Coal’s Last Kick” TIME, April 17, 2017
Not 24/7

22. How fear of nuclear power is hurting
the environment | YouTube 2016 TED Talk by Michael
Shellenberger
BACKGROUND:
• Solar energy is available 26% of the time,
wind 33% of the time,
and nuclear 24/7
• SOLAR ENERGY IS NUCLEAR.
The energy that enables life on earth comes from the
nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium in our sun.
Many lives and property loses from natural gas explosions in MA and CA
1000s of lives lost in coal mining and from repertory ailments & lung cancer.
No lives lost in the US from nuclear accidents.

23. GLOBALLY: The 7%
decrease in Nuclear
generated electricity
is greater than the
+3.8% increase in
Solar & Wind.
To make up for the
difference, we are burning
more fossil fuels, which
increase our carbon
dioxide emissions .
This is particularly true in
Germany. Electricity cost is
twice that in the US.

24. Bill Gates is funding a solution to the nuclear
waste problem. http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-talks-
private-nuclear-fission-plant-terrapower-2016-4
Gates said that TerraPower's nuclear pilot
plant will be built with the China National
Nuclear Corp. The economics, safety, waste,
and all the key parameters are dramatically
improved.
The traveling wave reactor converts
depleted uranium, a byproduct of the
nuclear-fission process, into usable fuel.

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Alvin Weinberg demonstrated a
Thorium molten-salt nuclear
reactor at Oak Ridge in 1970. Its
fission byproducts had no weapons
value during the Cold War’s nuclear
arms race and zero chance of a
meltdown.
Thorium reactors lost to Navy
Admiral Rickover’s Uranium water-
cooled for nuclear submarines and
aircraft carriers. Present uranium
civilian reactors, which
generate 20% of our electricity
without carbon emissions, are a
spinoff from Rickover’s navy
technology.

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27. Profit-making capitalist materialism was for Tillich a
quasi-religious form of idolatry: elevating a preliminary
or finite concern to ultimacy.
In Tillich’s climate-change prophesy, his ultimate
concern for God’s creation trumped profit.
Tillich would have been supportive of Pope Francis’
“Laudato Si; On C“are for Our Common Home.”
We have the moral responsibility to stop plundering
our planet for profit, the poor suffering the most.
The Citizen’s Climate Lobby is, however,
proposing an economic approach to
reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

28. 10/9/15
www.
CitizensClimateLobby.org
- Revenue neutral
carbon fee with
dividend. (RNCFD)
-Dividend would be
returned to
everyone.
$2000 / family of 4
-Stimulating economy
& creating 2 million
jobs.
- Stimulate Green
Energy Innovation.
True social cost of burning fossil fuels.
Harness Greed towards Green

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Of the 100 ways of
reducing global warming
the following were rated:
3. Reduced Food
Waste
4. Plant-Rich Diet

30. STOP EATING RED MEAT: BEEF AND PORK
Agriculture accounts for 24% of our greenhouse emissions.
• Cattle & pigs emit the greenhouse gases methane, CH4. They eat
grains needed for humans.
• In addition, deforestation—clearing land for crops, for instance—
removes trees that pull CO2 out of the air,

31. ALL ELECTRIC 2017 CHEVY BOLT EV HAS NO CO2 EMISSIONS.
• 238 mile range after single charging.
• 120 mpg equivalent, greater efficiency than gasoline motor
• No oil & filter changes.
• Acceleration 0 to 60 mpg in 6.3 second, about ½ that of
Tesla Model S, but the Bolt’s cost is ½,
about $33,000 with the Federal rebate.
The batteries, motor, and one-speed transmission are made in S.
Korea. The Bolt is assembled in Michigan.

32. The deserts in the US Southwest will expand into the central farm belt.
- Farmable land in under-populated Canada will increase.
MOVE TO CANADA!

33. God is not a being but the Ground of All Being.
Being includes personal relations

34. The Hebrew word ‫(אדמה‬adamah) is the feminine form of ‫אדם‬meaning "ground" (see
Genesis 2:7). “And the Lord God formed man of the dust
of the ground”

35. CO2
35Plants are “a ground of all being,” enabling animal and human life.

36. Each spring, trees form leaves which lower the CO2 levels by 7 ppm.
When they lose their leaves in the fall, the CO2 levels continue to
increase.

38. “THE RIGHT TO HOPE” was a 1965 sermon by Paul Tillich
16 US States &
more than 400 cities
have vowed to stand
by the Paris CO2
reduction agreement.
Bill Gates is heading
Breakthrough Energy
Technologies, of investors like
himself that are funding clean
energy technology

39. SUMMARY
• Increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) levels from fossil
fuel burning are warming our Earth via the
Greenhouse Effect in our atmosphere.
• What climate change is doing to us.
Paul Tillich’s 1962 Prophesy:
“We have no guarantee against man-made floods.”
• How to COOL OUR EARTH AGAIN.
- More fission reactors.
- A vegetarian/vegan diet.