David Legates

Dr. Legates, Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation's Director of Research and Education, is a retired Professor of Climatology at the University of Delaware, former Delaware State Climatologist, and author of numerous peer-reviewed articles on meteorology, climate change, and human influence on climate.

Does Caring for “the Least of These” Demand Fighting Global Warming?

Recently, my fellow evangelical scientists and academics sent a letter to the United States Congress urging immediate legislation on climate change. In an effort to care for the planet—God’s second greatest gift to humanity—they argue that our uncontrolled use of fossil fuels will disproportionately affect the poor, the vulnerable, and the oppressed. I applaud their concern […]

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Carbon Dioxide and Air Temperature: Who Leads and Who Follows?

  On the Evangelical Environmental Network’s Creation Care Blog, Mitch Hescox shows a slide purporting to show the relationship between air temperature and carbon dioxide (CO2) over the past 800,000 years (https://creationcare.org/2012/11/27/my-meeting-with-brother-cal/). His slide is taken from Jouzel et al. (2007) and Lüthi et al. (2008) and he asserts that “carbon dioxide levels and temperature track identically” (emphasis added) with

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