Al Gore Signs Open Letter Supporting Climate Skeptic Scott Pruitt for EPA Administrator

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An open letter supporting the nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator organized by The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation has attracted some very famous signers. U.S. Senate Environment & Public Works Committee Chairman Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) introduced the letter into the official record of Pruitt’s

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The Trump Climate Dump: Why It Doesn’t Matter if Even 100% of Scientists Agree on Global Warming

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Given current technologies, it makes no sense to destroy $100 Trillion in wealth this century for an unmeasurable reduction in warming. The more efficiently we can do those things, the greater humanity prospers. Affordable energy is part of that efficiency. Everything humans do requires energy. Everything. But when human prosperity suffers, people die. So, can

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EPW Chairman Introduces Cornwall Letter Supporting Pruitt EPA Nomination into Hearing Record

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As I write, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Environment & Public Works Committee is in lunch recess. Shortly before recess, committee Chairman John Barrasso (R-WY) introduced the Cornwall Alliance’s open letter supporting Pruitt into the record: I’d like to submit to the record as well, having heard that some

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Trump’s NOAA Administrator Must Address the Temperature Record Controversy

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An article appeared in the Washington Post yesterday entitled, “Who Will Lead NOAA Under President Trump?“. Written by the Capitol Weather Gang’s Jason Samenow, it lists three top contenders: Scott Rayder, senior adviser for development and partnerships at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Barry Myers, chief executive of AccuWeather in State College, Pa. Jonathan

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Scientists, Economists, Ethicists, other Scholars Support EPA Administrator Nominee Scott Pruitt

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Burke, VA, January 16, 2017—The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation today released an Open Letter to the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee supporting the nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Pruitt’s confirmation hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, January 18, 2017. “Some environmental activists

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Tillerson Gets It: Nothing Lifts People Out of Poverty Quicker than Electricity

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ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, nominated by President-elect Donald J. Trump to become Secretary of State, during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday, January 11, said clearly, concisely, and powerfully something that’s been a key part of the Cornwall Alliance’s message for years: Nothing lifts people out of poverty quicker than electricity.

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Snarky—But Right

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Okay, so most of the time here at the Cornwall Alliance we try to keep our language entirely civil, to avoid both formal and informal fallacies, and just stick to true premises and valid inferences to support our conclusions. Rational, yes. Entertaining? Well, not always. And in today’s America, lots of people—at least if their

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