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.”

Getting a Grasp on Grid Reliability Issues with Wind and Solar

Critics of calls for rapid replacement of coal and natural gas with wind and solar to power the grid often argue that the intermittency of wind and solar destabilize the electrical power grid, making brownouts and blackouts, which are costly and often life threatening, more likely. The basic point is that simple to make, but

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Responding to Risks of Climate Change—and to Risks of Responding to Climate Change

Judith Curry delivers a (typically) very thoughtful analysis of one attempt to push people into applying the “Precautionary Principle” so as to embrace major policy initiatives to mitigate “climate change” to avoid its risks. I’ll not try to summarize here other than to say she shows clearly that the arguments fail. Read her post here.

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Why It’s Misleading to Speak of “Ocean Acidification”

Calling a decline in pH of ocean water from 8.2 to 8.1 (which is calculated to have happened over recent decades, perhaps in response to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration though other causes are possible) “acidification,” meaning “becoming more acidic,” is misleading at best. Something can’t become “more acidic” unless it’s already acidic, and a

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Never Underestimate Your Opponent—Coming to Grips with the Paris Climate Agreement

Master Sun [Tzu] talks often about deception and therefore warns against being deceived by the enemy and underestimating their ability. ‘He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.’ It’s important to properly assess your opponent without prejudice or assumption. Many skeptics of catastrophic, anthropogenic global

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Unelected, Unaccountable Greens Dictated Clean Power Plan to EPA

Emails obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute under FOIA demonstrate that EPA almost certainly violated federal law by using private email to correspond with the Natural Resources Defense Council, correspondence in which NRDC essentially drafted critical parts of the “Clean Power Plan,” or even, as the Wall Street Journal puts it, “the rule,” not

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Unenforceable Paris Climate Agreement, ‘Worse than a Failure,’ Would Trap the Poor in Poverty if Implemented

For Immediate Release  Burke, VA, December 14, 2015—“The agreement reached at the Paris climate summit is worse than a failure,” said Dr. E. Calvin Beisner, Founder and National Spokesman of The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation. “The ‘commitments’ made in the Paris agreement are voluntary and unenforceable,” Beisner said, “which means most nations

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