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.”

Dakota Access Pipeline Builder Sues Greenpeace and Others for Defamation

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A couple of years ago, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) proposed that skeptics of dangerous manmade global warming should be persecuted—or, rather, prosecuted—civilly or criminally under the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The idea fizzled because doing so would be a clear violation of the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech. But when people go beyond […]

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Blame Global Warming for Hurricane Harvey?

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In the hallowed tradition of Rahm Emanuel’s “You never let a serious crisis go to waste,” ThinkProgress followed Emanuel’s advice when it wrote, “As of 10 a.m. ET on Thursday, Trump had posted seven tweets from his personal @realDonaldTrump account. … Not a single tweet mentioned the potentially devastating storm or warned Gulf residents to prepare for the incoming

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On global warming, the American public gets it!

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This is simply amazing. After all the hype by media, politicians, entertainers, alarmist climate scientists, and even a Nobel Peace Prize-winning former Vice President, only 28% of Americans think climate scientists understand the causes of climate change “very well.” That’s one finding of a Pew Research Study on which Scott Rasmussen reports in his #Number

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Repairing, updating, and expanding infrastructure: The Trump infrastructure permitting order is a good start, but there’s room for strengthening

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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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Got Some Expertise on Climate Change? Here’s Your Chance to Bring some Balance

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The U.S. Global Change Research Program is calling for nominations of review editors for the fourth edition of the National Climate Assessment. Qualified scientists, economists, and other experts who aren’t committed to global warming alarmism (a view pushed by past editions, as illustrated by the screen shot of the USGCRP’s NCA web page above—because everybody knows that

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Should America Subsidize the Coal Industry?

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For the record: The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation opposes all subsidies—corporate and individual, at federal, state, and local levels, regardless of their rationale. Not even national security justifies subsidies. If the nation needs bombers or computers or fuel for its security, let it buy them, plain and simple. But let it not

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Did We Run Out of Planet Last Week?

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Today, 2nd August, we have collectively consumed all of the planet’s renewable resources. So said Nicolas Hulot, France’s Minister of State for Ecological Transition, in a YouTube video published August 2 by Transition ecologique et solidaire. Sometimes people we assume are intelligent say things that are so blindingly obviously stupid we can’t persuade ourselves to treat

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Why Should America Expand its Nuclear Energy Sector?

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I’ve long thought the primary obstacle to the great expansion of nuclear power’s contribution to America’s energy needs is excessive regulation imposing safety standards that go far beyond what’s necessary and thus pushing costs prohibitively high. I still think so, and one of the challenges Republicans in Congress should take on is revising bringing those

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