As I write, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Environment & Public Works Committee is in lunch recess. Shortly before recess, committee Chairman John Barrasso (R-WY) introduced the Cornwall Alliance’s open letter supporting Pruitt into the record: I’d like to submit to the record as well, having heard that some […]
ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, nominated by President-elect Donald J. Trump to become Secretary of State, during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday, January 11, said clearly, concisely, and powerfully something that’s been a key part of the Cornwall Alliance’s message for years: Nothing lifts people out of poverty quicker than electricity.
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Okay, so most of the time here at the Cornwall Alliance we try to keep our language entirely civil, to avoid both formal and informal fallacies, and just stick to true premises and valid inferences to support our conclusions. Rational, yes. Entertaining? Well, not always. And in today’s America, lots of people—at least if their
No contest on this one. Cold weather leads directly or indirectly to 17 times as many excess human deaths as hot weather. What’s surprising is that even the New York Times reported this, and prominently. In the December 19, 2016, issue, Jane Brody wrote: Most of the Northern Hemisphere is now in the throes of
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Earlier this year Cornwall Alliance Contributing Writer Michael Cochrane published an important piece showing that, even assuming high probability that climate alarmists are right about the magnitude of anthropogenic global warming, mitigation is a poor response. Lately Kent Hawkins published a new piece at MasterResource.org that picks up on Cochrane’s piece, substitutes more realistic assumptions
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Encountered the claims by climate-alarmist scientists that the incoming Trump Administration will destroy climate data? Here’s a sober assessment of such, by Judith Curry. If I were among climate alarmists, I might be frightened by the prospect of the Administration’s preserving ALL the data, AND all the homogenizations of it, AND all the computer code
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Physicist and Cornwall Alliance friend John Droz, Jr., reveals a fascinating story of how the Obama Administration and North Carolina politicians sold out national security for the chance to look Green. The Obama-directed military and North Carolina regulators, aided by the governor and attorney general, approved an extensive industrial wind facility located where it would
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Most people don’t know what it means, and most of those who know what it means have little or no idea how it’s calculated, but the “social cost of carbon” may be one of the most important concepts—and numbers—in the climate-and-energy-policy debate, and particularly in American regulatory activity. The Obama Administration’s inflated estimate of the
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Few people have even the slightest notion how difficult it is to come up with even moderately plausible estimates of global temperature. Every measuring system has its strengths and weaknesses. Those handling them have their abilities and disabilities, their biases and blind spots. And a great deal of what goes on is politically driven to
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New guidelines for spiritual formation for future Roman Catholic priests call for them to “have a good grasp of the global climate problem” and share it with their congregations, according to Catholic Online. Those behind the guidelines insist that they’re not politically motivated. Rather, they insist that all the politics is on the other side, with
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