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.”

Time to Replace the Antiquities Act?

Yesterday President Donald Trump announced 2 million acres of reductions in the size of two tracts of land—Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante, set aside by President Obama as national monuments under the 111-year-old Antiquities Act. Predictably, Green lobbyists are up in arms. Ordinary citizens—not so much. Conservatives are celebrating, particularly because Trump’s action

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After 24 Years, What’s Happened to the Global Warming Rate?

An article in the prestigious scientific journal Nature reports that the most comprehensive, reliable method we have of measuring global average temperature reveals a decadal warming rate of just about 0.09C per decade. That’s about half the rate predicted by the computer models on which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and various government agencies rely

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Sea-level Rise a Problem? Global Warming to the Rescue!

Oh, this is rich with irony! The Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh, reports: Every year Himalayan rivers carry an estimated one billion tones of silts and deposit them in the Bay of Bengal off the coast of Bangladesh, forming islands in the shallow waters Dozens of new islands have emerged from the waters around Bangladesh over the last

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Have Fewer Kids to Fight Climate Change?

Because “having one fewer child reduces one’s contribution to the harms of climate change,” Travis Rieder argues, “everyone on Earth ought to consider having fewer children.” Rieder confesses that “this is an uncomfortable discussion.” He says he’s “certainly not arguing that we should shame parents, or even that we’re obligated to have a certain number

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Badgering Badgers on Climate Change

The Cap Times in Madison, Wisconsin, recently ran an article titled “Climate change is here: Wisconsin is seeing earlier springs, later falls, less snow and more floods,” to which a Badger state resident called our attention. It’s typical climate alarmist propaganda, and it bemoans what it considers the ignorance, or worse, of those who disagree: There

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Time to End Ethanol Mandate and Subsidies

Seven years ago Indur Goklany, an economist formerly with the U.S. Department of the Interior and associated with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since its inception in 1988 as an author, expert reviewer, and U.S. delegate to the organization, concluded a thorough analysis of the effect of American biofuels policy on the world’s poor with these words:

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Two Cheers for Trump Infrastructure Permitting Order

One of the biggest barriers to investment in infrastructure all across the United States is the long, costly, and unpredictable permitting process. If you have any doubts, just consider the Keystone XL pipeline extension. Proposed by TransCanada in 2008, approved by the Canadian government and the state of South Dakota in 2010, it floundered around

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Pruitt Sounds Death Knell for Scandalous “Sue-and-Settle” at EPA

One of the reasons the Cornwall Alliance supported President Donald Trump’s nomination of Scott Pruitt, at the time Oklahoma Attorney General, as Administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was that Pruitt “publicly opposed the abuse of the court system by use of ‘sue-and-settle’ to reach sweetheart deals between the EPA and environmental advocacy

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