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.”

Take Secret Science Out of the EPA: An Open Letter in Support of Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science

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Click here to sign the Open Letter. The federal Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed rule “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science,” banning the agency’s use of “secret science” in formulating regulations, should be adopted. It is badly needed to assure American taxpayers that the EPA is truly acting in their best interests. Objections are groundless. Strengthening […]

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Insect-borne Diseases Spreading in the United States? Blame EPA, Not Exxon

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Last fall Politico ran a special feature on global health that featured a graphic presentation of increased incidence of insect-borne diseases in the United States from 2004 to 2013, blaming the increase on global warming. “Warming global temperatures are changing the range and behavior of disease-carrying insects like mosquitos and ticks and extending the seasons in

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What’s a “Climate Skeptic”?

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In his recent article “Four Reasons Alarmists Are Wrong on Climate Change,” Cornwall Alliance Research Associate for Developing Countries Vijay Jayaraj distinguished what, following widespread usage, he called climate-change alarmists, deniers, and skeptics. The “alarmists” generally think that human emissions of carbon dioxide (and other greenhouse gases) are driving global warming so rapid and eventually

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Cornwall Contributing Writer Gregory Wrightstone featured on CBN News!

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CBN News’s Gary Lane interviewed Cornwall Alliance Contributing Writer Gregory Wrightstone about climate change on Set It Straight yesterday. The interview is exciting and enlightening! Wrightstone, a geologist and author of Inconvenient Facts: The Science Al Gore Doesn’t Want You to Know, brings reality to the climate-change discussion. He cites fact after fact that contradicts

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Congratulations to Jim Bridenstine, New NASA Administrator—It’s about Time!

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Seven months ago I wrote about why Congressman Jim Bridenstine (R-OK), nominated to be the new administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was well qualified and, in a saner world, should have been confirmed quickly. Yesterday, at last, the well-deserved confirmation finally happened—albeit along strict party lines—after the vote had been delayed for

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Will the Global Economy Be Battered by Car Batteries?

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In America and around the world, millions of people think electric vehicles (EVs) are the solution to all kinds of environmental problems—like smog, fine particulate pollution, and global warming. Save the planet! Drive a Leaf (or Volt or Tesla or … the models multiply). But enormous technical problems face the transition from gasoline- or diesel-powered

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A Warming Solution that Just Might Work—But Not as Planned?

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Los Angeles has a new solution to climate change: painting streets white. Well, not quite a solution to climate change. What it really addresses is what’s called the “urban heat island” (UHI) effect. Cities and towns, with lots of blacktop streets, absorb more energy from sunlight than rural areas, so their ambient air temperatures (especially

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What Really Brought about the Population Collapse on Easter Island?

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For years people around the world, swayed mostly by Jared Diamond’s book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, have thought Easter Island—2,300 miles west of the coast of Chile—suffered a population crash because its people used up its resources (chiefly palm trees) faster than they could be renewed. I haven’t known what to think,

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