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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.”

Why Does Global Warming Happen at the Poles though Few People Live There?

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Some people wonder, “Why is global warming happening down/up there at the poles if it is because of man? There aren’t too many of people living there to cause any problem.” Good, common-sense question. But there’s actually a solid answer to it that suits both alarmists and skeptics about anthropogenic global warming. Local anthropogenic warming, […]

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The World’s Gone Mad

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I have little but respect and admiration for Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swede who has launched a worldwide movement of students on strike from school to protest anthropogenic climate change. I think she’s mistaken, and I’m inclined to agree with British climate scientist Piers Corbyn that she’s being manipulated, but she seems sincere in her

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The Problem with Naturalism

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Scientific American‘s report on the awarding of this year’s Templeton Prize to Brazilian theoretical physicist and cosmologist Marcelo Gleiser, the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College, is fascinating reading. One could wish that many climate scientists, so over-sure of themselves, would read it and take it to

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… until the other comes and examines him.

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Has the climate-change controversy reached a milestone? That depends in part on whether President Donald Trump follows through with his desire to appoint a President’s Committee on Climate Security (PCCS) under the National Security Council (NSC). The PCCS would be tasked with assessing the pros and cons of various perspectives on climate change—subjecting them to

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In Climate Science, Start with the Basics: Physics

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Last week in WattsUpwithThat.com I published the article “Did Trump Appoint Jack the Ripper as Guardian of a Girls’ School?” It lampooned, and rebutted, attacks on Princeton physicist Dr. Will Happer and President Donald Trump’s intent for him to head a committee on climate security at the National Security Council. That generated lots of comments,

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Did Trump Appoint Jack the Ripper as Guardian of a Girls’ School?

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You’d think so, if you observed the reactions by the climate-change establishment to President Donald Trump’s appointment, back in September, of Will Happer as Senior Director for Emerging Technologies on the National Security Council (NSC), and the prospect of Trump’s forming a Presidential Committee on Climate Security, headed by Happer, under the NSC, to bring

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The More Things Change, the More they Stay the Same

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My friend David Saulsbury, a chemist, just reminded me of Newsweek‘s April 28, 1975, article, “The Cooling World,” saying, “it is a good exercise to periodically go back and review the end of the earth predictions from the past. The discussion never changes, only the dates and a willingness to exchange cooling to warming to

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