Taken together, your two articles in the International Section, both of which concern climate change in global terms, are a most interesting read (“(Not Yet) Marching as to War” and “Sounding the Trumpet,” November 7, 2009).  The first is about public opinion, and the second is about religion.  Public opinion is notoriously fickle, and so are politicians who go by it.  No matter how cleverly issues of climate change are formulated, they will go in and out of fashion with changing political and economic circumstances.  Religious organizations are accustomed to dealing with all this in terms acceptable to most people.  And in the long run. The connection between faith and greenery is thus likely to grow stronger with growing environmental problems—floods, droughts, fires, and storms.  And churches, temples, and mosques will in time become the main sources of palpable information about climate change.  After all, few humans are available to a rational argument of any kind.  God’s wrath resonates with all and sundry, though.