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.”

Climate Models: Uncertain? Inaccurate? What’s the Difference? Why Does it Matter?

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For years I have been pointing out that the super-sophisticated computer climate models on which the IPCC, national environment agencies, national academies of science, and of course the many climate-alarmist advocacy groups and journalists depend for their predictions of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) predict, on average, 2 to 3 times the warming actually observed […]

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Is the Democratic Party’s Climate and Energy Platform Defensible?

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Pressured by radical environmentalists and multi-billionaires like Tom Steyer who stand to profit, the Democratic Party has issued a new platform statement on climate and energy: Moving beyond the “all of the above” energy approach in the 2012 platform, the 2016 platform draft re-frames the urgency of climate change as a central challenge of our

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Climate Science, Energy Policy, Poverty, and Christian Faith: How do they Connect?

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(Editors Note: Click graphs to enlarge) In the March 16, 2016, issue of Forbes astrophysicist Ethan Siegel’s article “The Next Great Global Warming ‘Hiatus’ is Coming!” sought to refute skeptics of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) by arguing that the apparent lack of statistically significant global warming over roughly the last 18 or 19 years

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John Kerry, Refrigerants, Global Warming, and Isis—What Did He Say, and Is It True?

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Various news sources had a heyday when Secretary of State John Kerry made comments July 22 about HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons), the chemicals used in many air conditioners and refrigerators around the world, calling them a major risk because they promote global warming. Conservative media tended to trumpet the news as one more instance of a patently

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Introducing the global warming speedometer

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A single devastating graph shows official climate predictions were wild Guest column by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The new global warming speedometer shows in a single telling graph just how badly the model-based predictions made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have over-predicted global warming. The speedometer for the 15 years 4 months January

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Thank You, America—By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley

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Lord Christopher Monckton, Third Viscount of Brenchley and a frequent writer on climate-change science, is a good friend of the Cornwall Alliance. In honor of our Fourth of July he published this excellent piece on WattsUpWithThat.com, which we are pleased to reproduce here: For my final broadcast to the nation on the eve of Britain’s

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A Ground-Level View of the Cost of Unwarranted Regulation—and How to Reduce It

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Many complaints of the costs of environmental (and other) regulations give us the view from 30,000 feet. In his new article “The Long Arm of the European Community,” at American Thinker, Norman Rogers paints the picture at ground level—and it isn’t pretty. It’s not just that the regulations impose enormous costs but also that they often are

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Why Can’t Solar Provide Abundant, Affordable Electricity?

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Nuclear engineer James H. Rust, over at the Heartland Institute, has just posted a clear, concise, factual piece refuting the claim that there’s a “dirty war” to stop expansion of solar energy in the United States. I won’t get into the stuff about the “dirty war”—which is entirely bogus, and Rust demonstrates just why—but thought it

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Practically Everything You Thought You Knew about Fukushima Is Wrong

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When University of Edinburgh graduate student Claire Leppold attended a lecture on the aftermath of the Fukushima Daichi nuclear accident, caused by the massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011, she expected to learn about high cancer and birth defect rates because of exposure to high radiation levels. She wrote that what she learned shocked her:

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