Dr. Roy W. Spencer, a Senior Fellow and Advisor of the Cornwall Alliance, and Dr. E. Calvin Beisner, Founder and National Spokesman, are among ten people who will receive awards for their contributions to debate over the science, economics, politics, and ethics of climate change and climate policy at the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-9) July 7–9. The Heartland Institute, main sponsor of ICCC-9, announced the awards June 27. Dr. Spencer will receive the “Outstanding … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2014
Join Governors Urging Obama to Adopt Sane Energy and Environment Policy!
The governors of nine states recently wrote an excellent letter to President Barack Hussein Obama urging him to “pursue a pragmatic energy policy that balances our nation’s economic needs, energy security, and environmental quality objectives.” The Cornwall Alliance has been trumpeting this message for years. It’s great to see these governors embracing it. Pointing out that new breakthroughs in energy production in America have saved the average American household nearly $1,000 a year, the … [Read more...]
Global Warming Alarmist Makes Bogus Challenge to Skeptics
The brilliant Progressives over at the Daily Kos are all atwitter about the bold wager of $10,000 offered by physicist Dr. Christopher Keating to anyone who can “prove, via the scientific method, that man-made global climate change is not occurring.” Wow! It’s put-up or shut-up time for climate skeptics like us at the Cornwall Alliance, right? Ten grand ripe for the picking!All we have to do is lay out our proof and collect the dough.And if we don’t? Well, obviously we’re admitting we don’t dare … [Read more...]
Punish Your Enemy, Crush the Poor? EPA’s New CO2 Rule Turns Christian Ethics Upside Down
Originally Published in the Christian Post June 13, 2014 Jesus taught that we're to love our enemies and look after the poor. But a new rule from the Obama Administration seems to fly in the face of both mandates.By now practically everyone in America must know that the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) new proposed rule on carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants will cost a lot and achieve next to nothing.Cost? About $50 billion a year in lost production to the U.S. economy, … [Read more...]
Climate Cultists: Has the desperate global warming crusade reached its Waterloo?
Cornwall Note: Published in the Weekly Standard, Cornwall Alliance Senior Fellow Dr. Steven Hayward hits it out of the park. (Be sure to click through to read pages 2 and 3.) As always, Steve has done his homework--and put things very clearly. After reading this, in its entirety, you'll almost certainly know the science of climate change, and the economics of climate policy, and the politics of both, far better than you did before. The climate change crusaders, who have been at it for … [Read more...]
Bogus Poll Touts Widespread Support for Obama’s CO2 Cuts
The headline couldn’t have been more celebratory: “A huge majority of Americans support regulating carbon from power plants. And they’re even willing to pay for it.” Uh-huh. Here’s the key question: “What if that significantly lowered greenhouse gases but raised your monthly energy expenses by 20 dollars a month - in that case do you think the government should or should not limit the release of greenhouse gases?” Note that figure: $20/month, equals $240 per year. But the real cost on … [Read more...]
Website Visitor Accuses Us of Lies and Propaganda; We Respond
Recently a visitor to our website wrote us: Please show me the hard science behind your 'beliefs'. I just want you to know that as a Christian AND environmentalist, I am appalled at the lies you are propagating. Please help me understand your motivation. Is anyone on your staff a trained scientist? And please do not put me on a mailing list and send me any propaganda. I do not support your organization. We were of course disappointed to receive this, but we replied as follows: Grace and … [Read more...]
Testimony To the United States Senate Environment & Public Works Committee June 3, 2014
“When scientific views come under political attack, so too does independent thinking and good policy-making” Read Dr. Legates's Full Testimony Here (PDF). Over the years, I have applied for several federal grants. Two in particular, submitted to NASA and the USDA (the latter involved using precipitation estimates by weather radar to enhance agricultural planning which had nothing to do with climate change), were never reviewed. It is not that I have received bad reviews; indeed, I have … [Read more...]
“Climate Science”? Or Irrational Thuggery
When Dr. Lennart Bengtsson, one of the world’s leading meteorologists who had for years warned people of dangerous, manmade global warming, began to publish his doubts because observed temperatures weren’t rising anywhere near as fast as the computer climate models predicted, some of his former “comrades in alarms” got upset. When the veteran Swedish climate scientist agreed to serve as an advisor to a major think tank that calls for balanced research and reporting about climate, they went from … [Read more...]