Mark Dowd, Campaign Strategist for Operation Noah, will be speaking at Faringdon Corn Exchange on Thursday 19 June 2008 during Faringdon’s EcoWeek. The Meeting will start at 7.30pm and the title of his talk will be:   "Americans and Global Warming: From Denial to Grudging Acceptance." P R I N T  O U T  P O S T E R  F O R  M E E T I N G DIRECTIONS TO THE FARINGDON CORN EXCHANGE Operation Noah was founded in 2001 by Christian Ecology Link (CEL) and later became a joint project of CEL and the Environmental Issues Network of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. It was the first Christian campaign to focus exclusively on the issue of Climate Change and this continues to be its mission. The organisation’s stated goal is a 90 per cent reduction in the output of Britain’s greenhouse gases by the year 2030. A former Dominican Friar and for more than 20 years a television producer and presenter, Dowd, 48, was the Churches Media Council’s choice as Religious Broadcaster of the year in 2006.  He was also the journalist who successfully challenged the Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, to give up flying for a year on the Channel 4 documentary, God Is Green, last year. “Brave leadership from women and men in public life is going to be essential if the real calamity of runaway climate change is to be avoided,” he said,   “Christians have a huge role to play in bearing prophetic witness and for living simpler lives that respect the increasingly fragile state of God’s creation,” he continued. “Often they can prepare the way for difficult decisions that politicians are afraid of confronting.”