Creation Care Resources
The scientists listed below are eager to serve as a resource in your work. Should you have questions or wish to discuss any of the scientific material in this booklet, each will be happy to individually address the needs of your congregation. Scientists are also listed according to area of expertise.
Biodiversity | Climate Change | Toxics
Pastor Kits can be ordered on the Creation Care for Pastors website.
This is a project of the Center for Health and the Global Environment and the Revision Project of the National Association of Evangelicals.
Further Study Materials: Recommended Scientific Readings
Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA), Impacts of a Warming Arctic: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School, Healthy Solutions for the Low Carbon Economy: Guidelines for Investors, Insurers and Policy Makers (2008).
Chivian E, Bernstein A, eds.Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity. New York, NY: Oxford University Press (2008).
Hansen, James, How Can We Avert Dangerous Climate Change?, (Based on testimony to Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, U.S. House of Representatives, 26 April 2007).
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report
Summary for Policymakers, (IPCC, 2007).
Myers, Norman et al., "Biodiversity Hotspots for Conservation Priorities," (Nature 403: 2000).
Stern, Sir Nicholas, HM Treasury, The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change: Executive Summary, (2006).
U.S. Climate Change Science Program, Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health and Welfare and Human Systems: Final Report, Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.6 (2008).
Eric Chivian M.D.
Director
Center for Health and the Global Environment
Harvard Medical School
Human Health Impacts of Biodiversity Loss
Rita Colwell Ph.D.
Distinguished University Professor
University of Maryland
Microbial Biodiversity
Judith Curry Ph.D.
Chair
School of Earth and Atmosopheric Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
Climate Change and Oceans, Hurricanes
Gretchen Daily Ph.D.
Professor of Biological Sciences
Stanford University
Ecosystem Services
Paul Epstein M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Director
Center for Health and the Global Environment
Harvard Medical School
Human Health Impacts of Climate Change
Howard Frumkin M.D., Dr.P.H.
Director
National Center for Environmental Health
and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Health Impacts of Climate Change, the Built Environment and Toxic Exposures
James Hansen Ph.D.
Director
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Climate Change Science
 Bernd Heinrich Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
University of Vermont
General Questions about Biodiversity, Insects, Birds, Forests
Philip Landrigan M.D., M.Sc.
Professor and Chairman, Department of Community & Preventive Medicine; Professor of Pediatrics; Director, Children's Environmental Health Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Children's Health and the Environment; Pesticides; Heavy Metals
Thomas Lovejoy Ph.D.
President
The Heinz Center
Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss
James McCarthy Ph.D.
Professor of Biological Oceanography
Harvard University
Climate Change and Oceans, Biological Impacts
Camille Parmesan Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Section of Integrative Biology
University of Texas
Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss
Stuart Pimm Ph.D.
Professor of Conservation Biology
Duke University
General Questions about Biodiversity and Species Extinctions
Peter Raven Ph.D.
Director
Missouri Botanical Garden
Biodiversity and Plants
Carl Safina Ph.D.
President
Blue Ocean Institute
Biodiversity and Marine Life
J. Gustave Speth J.D., M.Litt.
Dean, and Sara Shellenberg Brown Professor in the Practice of Environmental Policy
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Climate Change Policy
Edward Wilson Ph.D.
University Research Professor, Emeritus
Harvard University
Museum of Comparative Zoology
General Questions about Biodiversity, Ants and Other Social Insects
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