I received an email from CMI that among other things was advertising this book:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06XJ34WF3/ ... TF8&btkr=1
''Some of the issues Kuligin explores as a result of rebuffing God include gay marriage, abortion, climate change, animal rights, and evolution.''
Sounded like another bigot trying to tell Christians what to think about climate change - as if the Bible was as 'clear' that any climate change 'cannot' be caused by humans as it is that the Christian God designed marriage to be of two people of the opposite sex and not the same sex. If he cares about God's created order he should be agreeing that mankind needs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions - but he can't be doing that since CMI would not recommend a book advocating that.
So I searched harder online. And I managed to read chapter 6 on kindle. As anticipated, it's mostly one-sided dishonest codswallop (as well as evasion of the evidence that recent global warming of the past 150 years or so is man-caused) that fails to quote a single Bible verse to support the position taken. On human population growth, he calls environmentalists 'fanatical' and falsely suggests that they say ''every cold front, heat wave, change in sea level, blustering hurricane, torrential monsoon, drought or blizzard is our fault''. The bigot also avoids the evidence and instead attacks environmentalists again saying that have been 'unfair' to carbon dioxide, deliberately misses the point (that we are releasing additional carbon dioxide that was stored within fossil fuels) by suggesting scientists can't know that the planet absorbs ''only the carbon dioxide it [not humanity] produces'' (he deliberately ignores the measured rising carbon dioxide concentrations within our atmosphere by saying ''it is impossible to measure how much atmospheric carbon dioxide is the result of human activities versus natural activities''). And there's further nitpicking and attempts to confuse Christians eg ''when will we begin saving the planet from too much water [vapour]''. Yes - he really does write that nonsense. He then casts doubt on world temperature readings, especially questioning estimates from past centuries. And he does that normal YEC propaganda thing of questioning not only data from ice cores and tree rings but also the dates involved - in order to try and show yet more confusion about recently measured rising temperatures across the globe. And on rising sea levels, after having a bit of a go at Bernie Sanders (and Al Gore and the World Meteorological Organisation) he questions (without offering any evidence) whether melting ice at both poles might be a 'natural occurrence'. In conclusion he declares that the Evangelical Climate Initiative jumped in 2006 onto the 'climate change bandwagon' (he does not mention in his 2017 book that they are still there). He claims the 'worldview' of 'fanatical environmentalists' is based upon 'paltry data'. And he agrees with the opinion that global warming is the 'new socialism' What lying claptrap. And I didn't list all of it.
When he finally quotes the Bible (after discussing 'animal rights' which I skipped) he flourishes Romans 1:22 and claims that there is an 'implicit paganism' within much of environmentalism. So THAT'S why he lies to his readers about the problem of global warming (which affects the poor disproportionately - I don't regard myself as a 'socialist' just a realist). It's a 'spiritual' issue so for Christians to believe humans are changing the climate is Verboten and apparently 'unbiblical' Oh no it is not. Think for yourselves Christians. Man-caused climate change (in a fallen world that was originally very good and is 'still' amazing today does not look 'unbiblical' to me - unless you assume from Genesis 8:22 that God micro-manages the climate and has prevented human free will from changing anything about it whether by accident or design; incredibly these same people tend to say humans helped dinosaurs go extinct!)
Think for yourself. But I challenge you that Dr Kuligin is a DECEIVER on this topic.
There are Christians who speak and act responsibly on climate change and other environmental matters - for instance A rocha, TEAR Fund and the Lausanne Movement. People who don't, as far as I know, wilfully lie and mislead. And who aren't hardline young earth creationists. And false prophets on climate change.
PS Just seen that he does quote Genesis 8:22 very near the end to support his claims. So that YEC post-flood 'ice age' lasting centuries is also impossible and contrary to God's promise of Earth functioning 'as designed' post-flood eh Dr Kuligin (there was a rainbow in Genesis too)?