SING TO APPEASE THE CLIMATE GODS

For a bunch who are supposedly all about the science, our climate changey friends sure love themselves a dose of old-timey religion.

For a bunch who are supposedly all about the science, our climate changey friends sure love themselves a dose of old-timey religion:

Hundreds of Christians in church choirs across the country will be singing Christmas carols with ­lyrics altered to protest about the burning of coal in a bid to change federal government policy on renewable energy.

The community organisation Australian Religious Response to Climate Change has facilitated the rewriting of 16 traditional Christmas carols — including We Wish You A Steady Climate and ­Silent Night, Smoky Night — and is encouraging community groups and choirs to sing them.

Darebin Council in Melbourne’s north, which has four Greens councillors among its nine members, hosted an event last week featuring many of the Carols Against Coal, and the Pitt Street Uniting Church Choir in Sydney has recently sung the altered Joy To The World — “Cool down the world, the time has come, for targets tight and fair”.

To be fair, it isn’t really a religious movement. It’s more of a cult.