E. Calvin Beisner

Dr. Beisner is Founder and National Spokesman of The Cornwall Alliance; former Associate Professor of Historical Theology & Social Ethics, at Knox Theological Seminary, and of Interdisciplinary Studies, at Covenant College; and author of “Where Garden Meets Wilderness: Evangelical Entry into the Environmental Debate” and “Prospects for Growth: A Biblical View of Population, Resources, and the Future.”

One Overhyped Crisis Deserves Another

Anthropogenic climate change is real. It is not a an existential threat—pace Greenpeace, the Climate Action Network, and the world’s most famous climate scientist, 18-year-old Greta Thunberg, who demand a hundred-trillion-dollar makeover of the global energy infrastructure to achieve a fraction of a degree of global temperature reduction at the end of this century. COVID-19 […]

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Ida, Like Camille in 1969, Packed a One-Two Punch

But was it unprecedented and attributable to manmade global warming? Guest column by Joe D’Aleo Hurricane Ida came ashore in Louisiana as a strong CAT4 hurricane. It produced major flooding and wind damage and widespread lengthy power outages in Louisiana where at least 6 people have died. [Editor’s note: Louisiana death toll from Ida had

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A Brief History of the Cornwall Alliance—Part 4: We Come of Age

We ended Part 3 of this history with reference to An Examination of the Scientific, Ethical, and Theological Implications of Climate Change, produced by the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance—the original name of what became the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation. I don’t think any of us involved in creating it could imagine all that

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Al Gore Offers Africa Electricity by the Spoonful

Guest column by Ken Braun An anecdote widely attributed to (but perhaps not originating with) Milton Friedman holds that the late, great Nobel Prize laureate was touring a developing nation and happened upon a public works project. To make way for the new road or canal or whatever, platoons of workers using hand shovels were laboriously

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Biden/Harris appointees to Department of Energy—Not a Bit of Energy Expertise

On August 20 the Biden/Harris Administration announced five new appointees to the federal Department of Energy. Here are their qualifications: progressive political activism degree in political science progressive political activism degree in environmental science progressive political activism degree in education and ethnic studies progressive political activism degree in what? progressive political activism degree in political

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Climate Scientists Admit Exaggerated Warming

Last week, a group of scientists sent shock waves through the climate-science community. They boldly pointed out that current climate models exaggerate greenhouse warming. In other words, they confirmed what climate skeptics have been arguing all along: that most computer climate models forecast unrealistic warming — warming not observed anywhere in the real world. Could

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A Brief History of the Cornwall Alliance—Part 3: A Tree Takes Root

As we saw in Part 2 of this brief history, the Interfaith Council for Environmental Stewardship didn’t work out as originally hoped. But that didn’t mean the Cornwall Declaration would lie dormant forever. David Rothbard and Craig Rucker, whom I introduced in Part 2, kept in touch with me over the next few years, encouraging

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Another “Hottest Month on Record” Claim

It’s official. Or, at least official enough for NPR to report it with zero reference to contrary data: “July Was The Hottest Month In Recorded Human History“! Now, I’ve never been quite sure why “recorded human history” should be such a prominent concern. What about before recorded human history? Historical climatology tells us there were

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