Copenhagen climate conference: Gordon Brown says CO2 makes God change the weather

Gordon Brown is addressing the Copenhagen summit this morning, again urging a deal, any deal.

To underline his point, he's using some rather emotive language, suggesting that man, not God, is responsible for the events we often refer to as "Acts of God."

Or is he?

Last night, No 10 issued some extracts from the speech. Here's one of the paragraphs give out:

"Hurricanes, flood, typhoon and droughts we have from time immemorial thought of as the invisible acts of God we can see clearly now as the visible acts of man."

Yet this morning, the text was subtly different.

Mr Brown said:

"Hurricanes, floods, typhoons and droughts that were once all regarded as the acts of an invisible god are now revealed to be also the visible acts of man."

Eh? So acts of God are also acts of man? Is Mr Brown effectively saying that man-made carbon emissions cause the Almighty to change the weather. I'm not sure whether to ask we need scientists or theologians to rule on this one…