From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
The co-owner of GB News, a British TV channel accused of broadcasting climate change denial, has donated £28m to influential Church of England institutions that support climate action.
This raises “serious questions”, say Christian leaders, given that Sir Paul Marshall’s views on the climate crisis and those frequently broadcast on the TV channel are “in direct opposition” to the Church of England, which believes that “responding to the climate crisis is an essential part of our responsibility to safeguard God’s creation and achieve a just world”.
Marshall, a hedge fund manager and Christian who said recently that the UK had been infected by “climate derangement syndrome”, gave at least £13m to Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB) church and the Church Revitalisation Trust (CRT) via his Sequoia Trust between 2018 and 2025, according to Guardian analysis of accounts filed with the Charity Commission.
HTB is the largest church in the Church of England, with a congregation of about 4,000, and is home to the evangelical Alpha Course, which has reached 37 million people in more than 175 countries, according to Alpha International. Marshall has been a member of the congregation since 1997.
The CRT, also known as the Re-vitalise Trust, is run from HTB, and has established more than 100 evangelical churches around the UK. Marshall is also a director of CRT.
Some critics of Marshall’s views fear that the money could influence the church institutions’ attitudes towards the climate crisis.
Rev Dr Darrell Hannah, the chair of Operation Noah, a leading UK Christian climate charity, said: “As the climate crisis intensifies, we’re increasingly concerned that a fellow Christian – one with more money and power than virtually any other Christian in the UK – continues to share problematic and highly influential views on the most important issue of our time. This cannot go unchallenged.” Operation Noah was instrumental in getting nearly every UK denomination to divest from fossil fuels.
“Marshall’s views are in direct opposition to those of the Church of England,” Hannah said. “Given his outsized influence on our country – and in light of his problematic views on the most significant moral and practical challenge of our time – serious questions need to be asked about Sir Paul Marshall’s donations to faith groups, and specifically to the Church of England.”
The Church of England has a routemap for all parts of the church to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2030 and has divested its multibillion-pound endowment and pension funds from fossil fuels.
GB News broadcast 953 attacks on climate science and climate action around the 2024 general election, according to a report. The channel has been accused of broadcasting climate change denial, including descriptions of global heating as “the climate scam” and suggestions the government was going to introduce “enforced veganism”.
Marshall, who has a net worth of £950m, said recently that efforts to cut planet-heating emissions were “impoverishing people”. Marshall also owns the Spectator magazine and UnHerd website and has given large donations to schools and the London School of Economics.
https://www.aol.co.uk/articles/christian-leaders-alarmed-climate-crisis-060046000.html
Why is it that the left are so keen on clamping down on free speech?
Much of what Sir Paul Marshall says is certainly worth debating, if nothing else. His reference to “efforts to cut planet-heating emissions were “impoverishing people“, for example.
As for the Church’s claim that “responding to the climate crisis is an essential part of our responsibility to safeguard God’s creation and achieve a just world”, where is their evidence that eliminating fossil fuels will make the world “more just”. Almost certainly, the reverse is true – fossil fuels have made the whole of the world, rich and poor, much better off than ever before. What is “just” about returning the population of Africa to the dark ages?
Anybody who claims they know God’s thoughts and beliefs is a charlatan.
The Guardian headline refers to “Christian leaders”. In fact, Operation Noah is nothing of the sort, it is just a small charity (their own description”), and do not reflect the policies and beliefs of the C of E.
They are just another climate lobby group, set up in 2004 “in response to the (so-called) climate crisis”.
Simple solution for the CE: send the money back.
Socialism: Socialists are people who believe they have a say in how other people spend their money.
Not just a say in how they spend their money, but a say in how they live their lives.
The CoE is now devoted to woke and open borders. It had plenty to say about George Floyd and in the case of Henry Nowak the silence has been deafening.
It had nothing to do with slavery but is determined to pay £100 million in reparations.
Church concerns
How many trans, gay, non binary, lesbians etc are in the clergy
The climate crisis
Er, that’s it
Thing is if we gave the £100 million reparations would they spend the money wisely for the benefit of the community , or squander it on drugs violence Carribean cruises, Cars , with a few people gaining massively from the money , the rest remaining poor and within six months asking for more money.
That money is meant for the upkeep of church buildings etc
True. The donation was for the upkeep of church properties.
The comment to which you reply was a bit off-topic and concerned reparations for things people did hundreds of years ago.
No doubt that when the buildings start showing signs of wear, the CoE will go begging to the government asking for funds to do necessary repairs.
Overall, it’s just an underhanded means of getting government to pay for something the voters don’t approve of.
The parents of Karmelo Anthony raised over $600 for his defense.
They spent most of it on a new home and new cars.
They are now pleading for money to support his appeals, now that he has been convicted of murder.
Sorry, over $600,000 for his defense.
Friday funny
Malicious or really thick?
A farmer was left baffled after his sheepdog was reported to the RSPCA for rounding up his own flock.
Tom Trueman, 42, received a complaint from the animal welfare charity after his border collie had been seen “worrying” sheep.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/11/tilly-sheepdog-report-rspca-buckfastleigh-devon/
With the RSPCA my money would always be on malicious/vexatious/harassing. Not that thick isn’t also plausible.
Probably the 1st time the woke complain about black on white crime.
Anyway –
Paint the dogs hair Pink = problem solved.
Isn’t it interesting that one has to pay or, as a minimum, register to access propaganda?
That’s actually their biggest trick.
You let the people pay taxes to finance their own enslavement
and pay for subscriptions to be propagandized
and pay hundreds of thousands for college to be turned into a brainwashed screaming idiot.
I am a Christian. I am a retired physicist. I am a fan of GBNews. I left the CofE once they started to pontificate on climate (and BLM and Covid jabs)
I offered to give them congregation some basic physics talks from the pulpit. Couldn’t be allowed! Gone now to a church which believes in Christ’s message.
God bless GBnews.
Here in the US, few of the older, so called mainline churches believe in preaching the gospel of Christ as their primary function. Instead they are pushing every new notion that comes from the left side of the spectrum. As a result, most of them are dying.
A few days ago I posted an article about a major split in the Presbytarian Chuch USA.
It seems some heathen proposed an amendment to require pastors, who are in a sexual relationship, to keep it a monogamous relationship. That was just too much for the more leftwing (majority) of the PCUSA leadership. The very idea that a pastor couldn’t have sex with as many people as he or she wanted.
This article is written by highly confused people.
Overall, they prefer ‘belief’ to ‘observation’.
The religious claim what has never been observed in the last 2,000. Evidence of Life after Death has been keenly sought, would be hard to miss and might even be reported by mainstream media.
The Saviours of the Earth have a belief that climate change has important consequences for society. Evidence of current catastrophic climate change has not been observed. To the contrary, the last 100 years has seen large increases in longevity, global population, global health improvement, treatment of illness and global food production all of which are a result of favouring observation and measurement ahead of belief.
We are told of mental cross dressers, contradictory folk who favour one strong belief system while demonizing another when the better approach has been shown to reject belief and favour reality.
Perhaps logic, especially consistent logic, should be used more often. Geoff S
Shanti Devy and Soul Survivor.
The University of Virginia has a section that studies claims of human reincarnation and I think they have documented several thousand claims, some of them very compelling.
The Vedas spend a lot of time talking about life after death.
Bone up on Protagoras, Greek philosopher ca 453 b.c. who understood the true nature of reality. The philosophy is often called “sophism” which has nothing to do with sophistry or the Sophists of Plato’s time.
Simply put, reality is what the individual believes.
We have a single Bishop who speaks out:
So many words, so little content. He just throws around buzzwords so that you can feel good and justified in your believes. Whatever they are.
Ever thought about not being easy prey for demagogues and shills?
What’s your take on the reactions of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York?
Did you agree with them?
The definition of a buzzword, is any concept that LooserName has been told to ignore.
” so little content… buzzwords, feel-good.. etc etc…
You mean, just like your posts?
Your comments prove that you an exceptionally easy prey for demagogues and shills.
You constantly fall for the most unscientific nonsense the climate and other far-left shills put out.
Ever think about improving your comprehension? Your lack of skill is astonishing, time and time again.
He’s a typical socialist sheep. Actually comprehending things is just too much work.
So much easier just to believe whatever the party tells him to believe.
Impressive – a comment about self‑awareness written without any.
Let’s see:
demagogue /dĕm′ə-gôg″, -gŏg″/ noun
A leader who obtains power by means of impassioned appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace.
In other words, climate worriers
shill /shĭl/ intransitive verb
Remind you of anyone? Perhaps you should look in the mirror.
Now that’s funny, coming from you.
From the article: As the climate crisis intensifies”
What climate crisis? They are assuming things not in evidence. The fatal flaw in the human-caused climate change meme. They have no evidence for what they claim.
What climate crisis?
We had three or four hot days and a thunderstorm. It’s rained every day – ie All June – since then. The temperatures have averaged 15C
All that hype and now their projection of hotter drier summers is getting waterlogged. Cancel that barbecue or move it indoors.
Minor correction:
“They have no evidence for what they
claimbelieve.”One has to maintain the context of a religious pronouncement. 🙂
We have no evidence to support a belief that most of them believe what they claim to believe.
When examining the actions and personal lives of the leaders of this movement, few if any of them behave in a manner one would expect from a true believer.
A ‘climate crisis’ would fit in perfectly with the visions of St John about the end of times.
Which raises the question ‘why would they be against it’.
From the article: “953 attacks on climate science and climate action”
So any contrary view of climate is considered an attack. No room for discussion.
That’s the way people who fear the truth look at things.
Faith is about truth, loosely speaking.
Religion, especially churches, is about control, power, money, as evidenced by thousands of years of application.
“Anybody who claims they know God’s thoughts and beliefs is a charlatan.”
I have been mulling over a report I read a while back where a 4 year old girl proclaimed,” God made a mistake and put me in the wrong body.”
First conclusion I draw is that she did not arrive at that conclusion sans external influence. A 4 year old does not have the literacy skills nor the full ability to understand all the finer points of Christian religion, one of which is, “The Lord moves in mysterious ways,” generally interpreted as “we cannot know why God does what he does.” A 4 year old has not developed critical thinking skills and all youngsters are highly impressionable.
There were no other possibilities considered such as:
One point missing is why the young woman was not offered the suggestion to pray to God to correct this “mistake.”
It was a concept presented to an impressionable youngster by an authority figure. No other authority figure weighed in to counter balance the impression created.
Which leads to the point: Indoctrination.
I have come to the conclusion that the indoctrination we must be most concerned about is not one ideology or another. The indoctrination is not that we must be most concerned about teaching what to think in on area or another (rather than teaching how to think and providing educational tools to cope with an ever changing personal and social reality).
The indoctrination is simply brainwashing people to accept everything on the basis of the appeal to authority. Once that is established, linking to one ideology or another becomes a much simpler task.
Control the language, control the ideas, coupled with repetition and appeals to authority and humans become flocks of sheep.
How is it that a Church that proclaims God is all powerful and all knowing takes a position that humans can do what God cannot?
Note: These comments do not reflect my personal religion.
Note: These comments are directed at the churches as bureaucracies, not the fundamentals of faith.
“Why is it that the left are so keen on clamping down on free speech?”
Because they know they can’t win an honest debate.
Marshall needs to find another outfit for his donations. Here in the states the more churches try to influence policy the more I think they should be taxed and treated the same as me.
The very fact that the Church of England subscribes to the climate crisis myth unfortunately undermines its credibility, and in a increasingly secular society, that’s exactly what religious institutions should be avoiding.
““Marshall’s views are in direct opposition to those of the Church of England,” Hannah said. “Given his outsized influence on our country – and in light of his problematic views on the most significant moral and practical challenge of our time…” I can think of one or two more significant moral and practical challenges of our time that a real Christian church should be concerned about.
The claim that climate change is “… the most important issue of our time” is the real furphy. Not only is it false, it’s theologically ridiculous to the point of being outright heresy. Note too that the folk behind Operation Noah give no evidence of actually believing in Noah’s (global) Flood which suggests they’re naming themselves after an event they believe to be mythical.
If you look at their site, and their About Us section, they make clear their views (doctrine and dogma) are based on climate change ‘research’ with Christianity there to provide inspiration\Christianese for how to express their faith in Gaia.