Cornwall Alliance advisory board member Dr. H. Sterling Burnett, who is also a research fellow on energy and environment at the Heartland Institute, published a great piece at The Hill a couple of days ago. Here are some excerpts: Before he was elected president, Barack Obama promised to bankrupt coal companies, and after eight years of his administration’s anti-energy policies, that pledge turned out to be one of the few promises he kept. Obama imposed regulations limiting coal mining near … [Read more...]
Why do Ranchers Grouse about Federal Regulations to Protect Sage Grouse?
One of the basic principles of environmental stewardship is that the people closest to a problem are likely to understand it best. Yes, there might be exceptions when experts from outside can come to understand it better, but what really happens in those instances is that the outsiders get up close. If they don't, they won't. A great illustration of this is the unintended consequences of federal regulations meant to protect sage grouse, an allegedly endangered species in some of the American … [Read more...]
A Great Disturbance in the Force?
Earlier today we posted a blog piece, "Cracks in the Empire's Armor Appear," by Dr. Roy W. Spencer, that commented humorously on how the media have responded to a new study by climate scientists who heretofore have reliably toed the alarmist line. Observing that actual warming trends are far smaller than those projected by the computer climate models on which the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and various national agencies depend, the authors concluded that therefore there's … [Read more...]
Did Global Warming Cause Peat Wildfires in Greenland?
A friend of the Cornwall Alliance recently wrote, "I have been seeing things online about Greenland wildfires of peat being caused by global warming and I was wondering if you all have any resources that address this." A fairly up-to-date article about the Greenland peat fires points out that humans probably caused the fires (perhaps through carelessness) in vegetation that was parched from lower-than-usual rainfall. Although monthly average temperature in the location is up by about 0.8 … [Read more...]
How Did We Reduce the Death Rate from Hurricanes by 98.5%?
It was inevitable that global warming alarmists like Al Gore would blame mankind for Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Why? Well, with folks saying global warming causes over 600 other things---from longer plane flights to summer frost in Africa, from a beer shortage to beetle infestation, from struggling brothels to declining rates of circumcision, from early marriages to the 2015 Nepal earthquake---the more intuitively plausible connection just couldn't escape the minds of such great … [Read more...]
Were Hurricanes Harvey & Irma “Worst Ever”?
Larry Bell dispels the myth that Hurricanes Harvey and Irma were "the worst ever" and made so by anthropogenic global warming. Neither was either. See his "No, Hurricanes Aren't More Frequent or Severe" for a tidy historical review that includes this: A review of North Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane patterns fails to reveal any worsening trend over more than a century. The recent Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey and Hurricane Irma actually ended an almost 12-year-long drought of U.S. … [Read more...]
Why Jim Bridenstine is Well Qualified to Head NASA
Perennial climate-change alarmist Dana Nuccitelli is upset—as always. This time, it’s because Donald Trump nominated Congressman Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) to become the next administrator of NASA. What’s Nuccitelli’s beef? “Scientists and astronauts are usually chosen to lead NASA, for obvious reasons. Bridenstine is neither ….” Likewise, ClimateHawksVote.com, led by 350.org founder and environmental activist Bill McKibben and self-described Communist and former Obama adviser Van Jones … [Read more...]
What Unintended Consequences Accompany Mandatory Evacuations for Hurricanes?
While Hurricane Irma was making its way through the Caribbean as a Category 5 storm, the National Hurricane Center predicted that it would veer north before reaching Florida; then that it would veer north a little later, skirting Florida's Atlantic coast and bringing devastation; then that it would veer north still later, plowing right into Miami and then working its devastating way north; then that it would veer north later yet, skirting the Gulf coast and spreading devastation all along … [Read more...]
How Much Do We Really Need Big Brother for Disaster Relief?
USA Today reports that 80% of disaster relief aid following Hurricanes Harvey and Irma comes from faith-based organizations---denominations, individual churches, non-denominational charitable organizations. For anyone familiar with Marvin Olasky's The Tragedy of American Compassion, that's no surprise. In what Bill Bennett called "the most important book on welfare and social policy in a decade. Period," Olasky first gives the amazing history of how well charitable organizations---the vast … [Read more...]
Post-Irma, Reasons for Thanksgiving in Florida
This morning my wife, Debby, and I walked around our neighborhood—99 homes out of a total subdivision of about 2,400 homes—in southwest Broward County, FL, surveying the surprisingly light damage Hurricane Irma left. A few trees were down, one directly across the street, another, around the corner, on a car. Many tree branches and palm fronds were down, a handful of shutter panels twisted off from the windows, but that was about it. Amazing! What a relief! Suddenly we heard a woman … [Read more...]
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