India last week announced its “climate action plan” in preparation for December’s climate summit in Paris, and the featured points grabbed the world’s attention: 40% increase of “clean [i.e., CO2-free] energy” by 2030; reduced CO2 “emission intensity” by 33% from 2005 levels by 2030; calling for wealth countries of the West to help it meet […]
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The following caught my eye in today’s Weekly News from Science: Can epigenetics explain homosexuality puzzle? Michael Balter A new study suggests that epigenetic effects-chemical modifications of the human genome that alter gene activity without changing the DNA sequence-may sometimes influence sexual orientation. Researchers studied methylation, the attachment of a methyl group to specific regions of DNA,
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Speaking September 29 at the UN General Assembly, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made it perfectly clear: India will not stop or even slow its people’s rise out of poverty to satisfy the global warming elites of the West. Modi told the UN that any climate agreement acceptable to India must function “without affecting our ability
Soaring Eagle Radio with Mike Spaulding just posted a podcast interview with me titled “The Radical Religion of Environmentalism.” We ranged pretty far and wide—and deep—in the conversation. One important takeaway: we must never conflate Biblical earth stewardship with environmentalism. The two are mutually exposed from—pardon the pun—the ground up. Hear it here: https://soaringeagleradio.com/?p=231.
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Back in June I had the tremendous privilege of interviewing 32 scholars and leaders on camera for Cornwall Alliance’s forthcoming documentary, Where the Grass is Greener: Biblical Stewardship vs. Climate Alarmism, and our already posting YouTube video series Greener on the Other Side: Climate Alarmism—Facts, Not Fear (subscribe to our YouTube channel and you’ll be notified of new
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Recently 20 scientists, firm believers in CAGW and proponents of policies to reduce it, sent a letter to the White House supporting a call by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) for criminal prosecution under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) act of scientists who disagree with them. Hello?! Anybody ever heard of the First Amendment—you
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The Earth Day Network hosted what it touted as a major rally for action to stop “climate change” today (timed to coincide with Pope Francis’s visit with President Obama yesterday and his address to Congress) on the National Mall in Washington. Only it wasn’t. It was reported that organizers said beforehand they expected “up to 200,000
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The Arctic, like the rest of the world, experiences natural cycles, and some of them can be pretty radical. While most of the world enjoys a pretty stable 24-hour cycle of sunrise and sunset, with the sun visible roughly half of each day, a little longer in summer, a little shorter in winter, the Arctic
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The Senate Environment & Public Works Committee last month issued a damning 73-page report, by the Committee’s Majority Staff, exposing the widespread and corrupting use of “sue and settle” practices by the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under the Obama Administration, to form and promote its policies. It’s not pleasant reading, and citizens who favor transparency, accountability,
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Georgia Tech climatologist Judith Curry dealt a serious blow to the appeal to consensus on climate change in her paper “Climate Change: No Consensus on Consensus,” three years ago. She pointed out (among lots of other valuable things) that, whatever value consensus might have in science (as opposed to politics), consensus is significant only if
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