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.”

Can Government Agencies Protect Us from Lying Scientists and Sycophantic Media?

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Newspapers, politicians and pressure groups have been moving smoothly for decades from one forecast apocalypse to another (nuclear power, acid rain, the ozone layer, mad cow disease, nanotechnology, genetically modified crops, the millennium bug…) without waiting to be proved right or wrong. So wrote Matt Ridley at the start of “Lying with science: a guide

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Wind and Solar Energy—Never Meant to Work?

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What would you think if someone told you that one of the most important early champions of wind power touted it precisely because he thought it couldn’t work for advanced, industrialized societies? “Aww, can’t be true”? Well, it can be, and it is. In “The Question Concerning Technology” (1954), Martin Heidegger—one of the twentieth century’s

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If Global Warming Won’t Kill Us, Will Ocean Acidification?

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As the stretch of years with no statistically significant global warming lengthens, environmentalists scratch their heads and ask, “Well, if we can’t scare people with global warming, what can we use?” And one of their stock answers has become, “Ocean acidification!” Acid, you know? Nasty stuff! That’s what very bad people throw in the faces

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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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