Oh, my! Few things can better communicate the enormous benefits of the boom in U.S. shale oil and gas production from fracking than this. The boom not only drives costs for American energy consumers to record lows, but also drives down revenues for OPEC, the leading source of financial support to the world's biggest and most deadly terrorist organizations. … [Read more...]
Does the Trump Administration Put Science in Jeopardy?
It's hard to imagine a more thoroughly ignorant statement than this: “The discipline of science is one where the facts, once they are peer-reviewed and published in scientific journals, are fixed. They’re not open to interpretation, or at least not much.” That's the opinion of Jeffrey Kluger and Justin Worland, writing in "How a war on science could hurt the U.S.---and its citizens." in Time magazine. The truth, of course, for these two apparent neophytes to science, is quite the … [Read more...]
A Film that Could Revolutionize Your Whole Perception of How to Help the Poor
Nearly thirty years ago I published my first book on Christian economics, Prosperity and Poverty: The Compassionate Use of Resources in a World of Scarcity. The last three chapters dealt with the nature and causes of poverty and how churches and individuals can help the poor. I said some fairly controversial things then about how ineffective many methods are, whether by governments, private organizations, or individuals. Since then I’ve seen nothing to change my mind. But I have learned some … [Read more...]
What’s Wrong with a “Carbon” Tax?
James Baker, chief of staff to Ronald Reagan and secretary of state under George H.W. Bush, and George Schultz, secretary of state under Reagan, have endorsed a "carbon" tax plan that is just plain wrong from the git-go. Stephen Moore explains why in "The Carbon-Tax Scam," but here's the gist: Even if it succeeded in ending all United States carbon-dioxide emissions (and it's only designed to reduce, not end, them), it would fail to accomplish the end used as its justification: … [Read more...]
Where does “Follow the Money” Lead?
From time to time people attack the Cornwall Alliance's credibility by claiming we're "in the pocket of Big Oil" or of the fossil fuel industry in general---the old "follow the money" attack. What's our answer? We've never received a penny, so far as we can identify, from any large oil, gas, coal, or other corporation in any field of industry. We have received a few donations---none over $1K, so far as I can remember---from small companies, but cumulatively they have made up only a tiny … [Read more...]
Has NOAA’s “Pausebuster” Been Busted?
“The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.”—Proverbs 18:17 Major news outlets and the climate change-focused blogosphere erupted over the last few days with the The Daily Mail’s publication February 4 of David Rose’s “Exposed: How world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming data.” Rose reported serious data mishandling behind a study published in Science (Karl et al.) in 2015 by NOAA’s Tom Karl, Thomas … [Read more...]
Why Do @Rogues Love Darkness?
In "What The 'Rogue' EPA, NPS and NASA Twitter Accounts Teach Us About The Future Of Social," Kalev Leetaru peers inside the Pandora's box of the implications of "rogue" social media accounts---accounts that purport to express the views of people from within (or recently having left) government agencies, corporations, etc., in opposition to the official views of those agencies, corporations, etc., but the actual authors of which are not revealed. It's a frightening prospect. Before anyone … [Read more...]
Strengths and Weaknesses of Tillerson and Zinke
Environmental ethicist H. Sterling Burnett (Ph.D., Applied Philosophy) knows how to make distinctions, and he does so nicely in his discussion of President Donald Trump's nominations of former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State (now confirmed, though Burnett apparently wrote the piece before that) and Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) to be Secretary of the Interior. Zinke's strengths: advocate for energy independence; firsthand observation of federal mismanagement of national forests, … [Read more...]
10 Great Questions to Detect Propaganda
Stella Morabito, writing in the Intercollegiate Review, offers ten great questions by which to detect when you're being targeted by propaganda. They apply, each and every one, to how climate-change alarmists, and environmental alarmists generally, treat anyone who dares question their pronouncements. Here are the questions, but click through to get her valuable discussion of each: Is your natural curiosity being suppressed? Are you being threatened with slurs or labels? Do you feel … [Read more...]
Will Trump Administration Be the Death of Science?
Cornwall Alliance Contributing Writer Anthony Sadar, a Certified Consulting Meteorologist and author of In Global Warming We Trust: Too Big to Fail, published a great piece in The DC Caller today debunking fears of an anti-science mentality taking over the federal Environmental Protection Agency under Donald Trump's administration. Here's the intro: There is a lot of angst in the air over the future of climate science now that the White House is occupied by a president who has referred to the … [Read more...]
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