A common theme of environmentalist thought—the Green vision of the ideal world—is of a small human population whose effect on earth’s ecosystems doesn’t differ significantly from that of other species. The stark contrast between that vision, with its particular understanding of what it means to be human, and the Biblical vision is apparent from the […]
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News came Wednesday that German researchers—joined by German President Angela Merkel (herself a scientist)—have turned on an experiment at the Max Planck Institute along the path to nuclear fusion energy. Fusion research has been ongoing for decades, and the scientists at Planck make it clear that this experiment won’t itself generate energy. They anticipate it
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Over 300 scientists, engineers, economists, and other scholars last week sent a letter to Congressman Lamar Smith, Chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, in support of the Committee’s efforts to implement greater accountability for the scientific work of federal agencies involved in climate research, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
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Various passages of the Bible set forth the complete elimination of human habitation in a land as the epitome of God’s judgment. I have long found it remarkable that much of the environmental movement sees as ideal what Scripture depicts as hideous. One place that does so is Isaiah 34, in which God through the
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Less than two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which wants us to trust its prognostications about conditions a century from now enough to bet trillions on them, warned that global warming threatened global food supplies. But last week The New Indian Express reported, “International food prices dipped by 19 percent in
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I just received word from Joe Bast at the Heartland Institute that Dr. Robert M. Carter, a palaeontologist, stratigrapher, marine geologist and environmental scientist with more than 30 years professional experience and one of the world’s leading experts on climate change, died today, several days after suffering a heart attack. I met Bob first through correspondence,
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In the early 1990s, working partly as a freelance book editor, I had the privilege of being the main managing editor of Julian L. Simon’s (edited) The State of Humanity (Blackwell, 1995). One of my responsibilities was turning raw data from the book’s 60 authors into graphs so people could grasp them better. But the graphs
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If you run in the right circles, you might encounter someone who breathlessly tells us that the downward trend in estimates of climate sensitivity (how much added warmth comes from added atmospheric CO2) got turned around by a new study in Nature Climate Change, and we’re back to a best estimate of Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity
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The photogenic Arctic megafauna (polar bears, walruses, and seals) that global warming alarmists use to gin up public empathy for their campaign against global warming have survived far greater temperature swings than anything the IPCC predicts should come from human activity, concludes a new study. Oh, well. The alarmists will surely keep using them anyway.
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In the midst of a strong El Niño, Lord Christopher Monckton of Brenchley reports that the “pause” in global warming, last counted at 18 years 9 months (through October 2015), shortened by December’s end to 18 years 8 months. “The Pause” may continue to shorten through 2016 if, as usual, the second in a pair
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