It's a common perception that science and religion are mutually exclusive. But there are many scientists who would consider themselves to be spiritual people.

I think it's interesting that the United States and Australia are two of the most individualistic nations in the entire world in terms of national personality.

If you can frame climate change as an alternate religion, or as one more of those issues where the pointy-headed liberal atheist scientists are trying to discredit the Bible, then you've already got a ton of people on your side who are concerned about heresy, other religions, or teaching evolution in schools.

People have taken advantage of the very well-trodden pathways that divide science and faith on other issues, such as creation, evolution, and the age of the universe, to pigeonhole climate change as yet another variant on the same theme.

We need a price on carbon that accurately reflects its real costs on our society and our wellbeing.

For many of us, our values come from our faith.

The first thing we can do as individuals and as communities, like a school or a university or a church, is cut our energy use. Do an energy audit or measure our carbon footprint using online carbon calculators that are free, easy, and cheap. Get a list of the ways that we can stop wasting so much energy and save money.