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.”

20 Scientists Call for Prosecution of CAGW Critics—Judith Curry Puts them to Shame

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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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Having Fun at the “Moral Action on Climate Justice” Rally on the National Mall

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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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Obama in Alaska: He Didn’t Let Kivalina’s Crisis Go to Waste

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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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Senate Committee Issues Damning Report on EPA’s “Sue and Settle” Practices

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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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Curry Deals Another Blow to Climate Consensus

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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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Methane Monster—Not

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Been hearing about the methane monster that’s going to cook the planet? The Independent, Salon, Mother Jones, Alternet, Arctic News, and the Arctic Methane Emergency Group have all trumpeted it, and the methane message becomes the more dire as we approach Paris, with 5-alarm fires raging at TruthOut and Real News Network. Irreversible positive feedback loop: warming Arctic releases methane that warms

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Climate Change Industry Doesn’t Live on Chicken Feed

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For all those climate alarmists who are up in arms about what they consider the billions of dollars supposedly supporting CAGW skeptics, here’s a bit of reality therapy: The money supporting alarmism amounts to about $1.5 TRILLION a year, according to an expensive 200 page report on the climate change consulting market that came out

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It’s Official: July 2015 Is, and Isn’t, the Hottest Month on Record!

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NOAA breathlessly reports, “July 2015 was warmest month ever recorded for the globe.” CNN, USA Toady—oops, that’s USA Today—, BBC, and lots of other mainstream media lapdogs all obediently reported it. But laymen need to pause for a deep breath before panicking. First, “ever recorded” means back to 1880 (conveniently leaving out the Holocene Climate Optimum,

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The News that Didn’t Fit—What I Told a New York Times “Reporter,” and He Didn’t Report

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On June 16, 2015, I received an email from New York Times “reporter” Justin Gillis, who has written much highly critical of those who are skeptical of claims of catastrophic, anthropogenic global warming—people like me. Because I had taken the lead in producing An Open Letter to Pope Francis on Climate Change, Gillis posed some questions

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A Mere Couple of Degrees, a Mere Single Thermometer–and a Matter of Integrity

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Climatologist Patrick Michaels detected an error in the temperature record at Reagan National Airport recently, and reported it to the Washington Post‘s Capital Weather Gang, which confirmed the error and duly reported it to the National Weather Service, which acknowledged the error and replaced the instrument (which for the last year and a half has been

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